Blind Chance: David Faucheux's Audio Web Log
Thursday, September 09, 2004
The million letter march--for fibromyalgia victims
Reminder: Audio Book Expo coming up Oct. 29
Some programs of the forthcoming Audio Book Expo on Oct. 29 will be Webcast. Details from the organizers:
Key-note speakers include: Tom Peters of TAP Information Systems, Steve Potash, CEO of Overdrive, Inc., Jenny Levine, "the Shifted Librarian", Metropolitan Library System, and Judy Dixon from NLS. Other speakers include Jane Chamberlain, Adult Services Manager at Bloomington Public Library, Sharon Ruda, Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille Service, and Diana Sussman of Southern Illinois Talking Book Center. There will also be time for exhibits and ideas.
Huck, kids' books, Douglass autobio to be discussed Saturday
From Tom Peters and the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center:
September is shaping up to be another great month of online book discussions. This Saturday there will be three different online discussions. Beginning at 10:00 Central Daylight Time on Saturday morning there will be a discussion of two children's books which, like all good children's books, should be read and discussed by adults: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, and Little House on the Prairie. Beginning at 3:00 CDT on Saturday afternoon there will be a discussion of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Beginning at 7:00 CDT on Saturday evening there will be a discussion of Huck Finn which, along with the Great Gatsby, often comes up in conversations about the great American novel.
On Tuesday evening, September 21 beginning at 7:00 Centrall Daylight Time there will an online discussion of My Antonia. Graduate students at the Willa Cather Project at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln will participate in the discussion. Prof. Susan Rosowki, originally scheduled to take part, has had to cancel for health reasons.
Click here for more information about these events and links to the texts and the online meeting room.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
David Faucheux in the snow
A snowy street with fair-sized houses, icy sidewalks and sturdy trees. A dark-haired man in his 30s wearing dark glasses and holding up a snowball perhaps three-quarters the size of a basketball. That's the scene in the black-and-white photo David Faucheux emailed of himself in his library internship days in Illinois. If you're sighted, just click here to see David. In the near future I'll post a portrait of David on his Blogger profile page. No sure if the winter scene is the right photo. Let me think about that one.
Memo to David: It'll be winter in the next few months, and you know about both the southern and midwestern varieties. What's winter like for you? A dangerous time with icy sidewalks? What do you think on a day of the kind shown in the picture? And what was Nader the guide dog's 'tude about snow?
Update, 9:34 a.m.: David likes the questions, and the audio will be coming later this week.
