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Happy Holidays 2007
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Season's Greetings!We here at WebClarity wish you and your family a safe and healthy festive season full of good cheer. To help put you in the mood, we've filled our holiday newsletter to overflowing with festive ideas. Check out our holiday downloads and tips for finding that carol you’ve been waiting to catalog. Or read up on a couple of “gifts” that your organization might be interested in purchasing for the new year. Again our best wishes to you and yours this season! Sincerely, The WebClarity Software team
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 It’s a Wonderful Life: Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to end it all on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. |
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 A Christmas Carol:Cranky and curmudgeonly Scrooge learns the error of his unkind ways and is taught the true meaning of the holidays when he is visited by the ghost of his late business partner and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future. Includes bonus features - George Cole remembers Alastair Sim, "Richard Gordon Remembers George Minter & Renown Pictures", "Charles Dickens - His Life & Times", Original American and British Theatrical Trailers, Before & After Restoration Comparison, Cast Bios, and more. |
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 The All Dogs Christmas Carol:All your favorite characters from the All Dogs Go To Heaven children's series are back in this captivating canine retelling of a Christmas classic the whole family will love! It's shaping up to be a wonderful Christmas for all the precious pooches at the Flea Bite Cafe. But the festivities and goodwill don't mean anything to Carface, a big bully of a bulldog, who plans to ruin Christmas for everybody.
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 Barenaked for the holidays / Barenaked LadiesThe Barenaked Ladies take old Christmas jingles to an entirely new level. Classics like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and seasonal fare such as Band-Aid's Ethiopian charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas" and a handful of tongue-in-cheek originals show up. Includes appearances by Sarah McLachlan and Michael Bublé. |
 The Chipmunks Greatest Christmas HitsAlvin still wants a hula-hoop for Christmas – and he wants it now! Alvin, Simon, and Theodore struggle to make it all the way through "The Twelve Days of Christmas," and Rudolph makes a guest appearance on "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer." David Seville (at normal speed) does a poignant version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." |
 Noël / Josh GrobanWith a charmingly eclectic array of guest vocalists and a wide range of material (songs range from the sacred to the secular), Groban--buoyed in spots by none other than the London Symphony Orchestra--soars in his duets with Brian McKnight, Faith Hill, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Produced by David Foster. |
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More than 65 stars of country music share their favorite recipes, cherished holiday memories, and family photos in this country-style Christmas treasury that includes a 15-song CD. |
 Holidays around the world / Joan O'BrienCelebrate Cinco de Mayo in Mexico, march along the Champs-Élysées on Bastille Day, and visit Israel during Hanukkah. Be sure to pack some crayons as you circle the globe to observe 30 festivities. Full-page illustrations, each loaded with lively images, offer captivating views of a diverse range of cultures. |
Christmas Gift Ideas for that Someone Special
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 Raising Sand / Robert Plant and Alison KraussPerhaps only the fantasy duo of King Kong and Bambi could be a more bizarre pairing than Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Yet on Raising Sand, their haunting and brilliant collaboration, the Led Zeppelin screamer and Nashville's most hypnotic song whisperer seem made for each other…..(An Amazon.com review) |
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 Songs of Mass Destruction / Annie LennoxMs. Lennox's 2003 album, “Bare,” recorded in the wake of her divorce, pondered betrayal and separation in sumptuously orchestrated ballads. “Songs of Mass Destruction” is more varied and often more muscular. One song, “Coloured Bedspread,” harks back to the pumping electro of Eurythmics, while “Ghosts in My Machine” confronts inner demons over a driving Louisiana accordion riff as Ms. Lennox sings: “I hurt too much/I feel too much/I dread too much/I dream too much.” (Pareles, Jon. New York Times. September 30, 2007) |
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 Planet Earth: The Complete SeriesA stunning 11-part series that captures rare action, impossible locations, and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest, and most elusive creatures. |
 Ratatouille (Widescreen edition)A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage boy, who inadvertently discovers Remy's amazing talents. They strike a deal, ultimately setting into motion a chain of extraordinary events that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. |
 Pan's Labyrinth (Widescreen Special Edition – Cdn Release)"Pan's labyrinth" unfolds through the eyes of Ofelia, a young girl uprooted to a remote military outpost commanded by her new stepfather. Powerless and lonely in a place of great danger, Ofelia lives out her own dark fable as she confronts monsters both otherworldly and human after she discovers a neglected labyrinth behind the family home. There she meets Pan, a fantastical creature, who challenges her with three tasks that he claims will reveal her true identity. |
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There are so many versions of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol that you may be in the happy situation of finding too many.
Tip Reminder: If you have too many results for your title search, as we did for A Christmas Carol, then add an Analytic field that will help you quickly isolate just the records you want. In this case, we want the classic movie starring Alastair Sim, not any of the other versions… even though Rowan Atkinson’s version may be very, very tempting.
Since cast and director names appear in 700 fields, they are often indexed as Authors. However, sorting the record list by Author name will not guarantee that we see Alastair Sim. BookWhere will show the first Author listed in the record with preference to the 100 tag and then to the 700 tags. So, in order to make sure we can limit our results to Alastair Sim, the actor, we can add the author index to the Analysis Panel in order to see all “Author” names.
It’s easy to add a field to the Analysis Panel. Go to Options > Settings > Rules and click on the + to expand the Analysis group. Then, if your field is not currently in that display, just find it in the Rules column on the right-hand side of that tab’s listings, and click to highlight and then use the Include Rule bar to add it to Analysis. If there are too many analysis fields, you can highlight them in the expanded list and click on the Exclude Rule button to remove them.
There certainly are a lot of versions of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol! We find about 130 titles in this single database.
Clicking on the box beside Alastair Sim’s name makes it easy to see the right records at a glance and then to choose the one with the highest score we can sort on the rating as well as score column.
WebClarity Product Spotlight: Editing a MARC record with MARC Notepad before importing into your ILSThere are some good records for the new Josh Groban CD, Noël. The one with the highest score does not display the title diacritics properly, though.
We can send two of the records to MARC Notepad from BookWhere to compare and to correct the title diacritics.
By using the Tile option in Windows, we can see both records at the same time – and use copy-and-paste to correct the diacritics.
Using MARC Notepad we can also add new tags, so we’ve also added a summary note and tracings for the producer and some guest artists to create a more complete record.
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Movies
Holiday Inn: Astaire and Crosby play partner/rival song-and-dance men who compete for the hand of their performing partner, played by Virginia Dale. After Crosby loses, he moves to the Connecticut countryside where he creates a resort that is only open on holidays and puts on shows with the help of Marjorie Reynolds. Dumped by Dale, Astaire makes a drunken arrival at the inn on New Year's Eve and dances with Reynolds. He decides she'll be his new partner, but doesn't remember what she looks like, setting off a frenzied search at every subsequent show while the once-bitten Crosby does his best to steer him off track. Includes “White Christmas” among other favourite Irving Berlin songs.
Blackadder’s Christmas Carol:The self-serving Edmund Blackadder (Rowen Atkinson before his Mr. Bean success) is the most kindhearted man in England. Robbie Coltrane, the Spirit of Christmas, shows Edmund visions of past and future to not quite the desired effect. With Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, and Miranda Richardson.
Music
Books
A Country Music Christmas: Songs, Memories, Family Photographs and Recipes from America's Favorite Country and Gospel Stars / Edie Hand and Buddy Killen 
Shine / Joni Mitchell
There are two options for batch searching. The first comes with the standard BookWhere and allows you to enter up to 50 search “keys”. These “keys” can be ISBN or ISSN or even Titles or Authors. Generally, most catalogers type in or scan in ISBNs and launch a search against one or more databases for their batch of “keys”.