This is a message from CTLS-L. Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the entire list. --------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:09:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: publib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: online literature resource (free)
As schools everywhere are beginning a new year, I thought this would be a good time to review an online reference resource that we are really proud of: Wired for Books <http://wiredforbooks.org>, an educational project of the Ohio University Telecommunications Center.
We have now encoded over 100 famous author interviews, conducted by Don Swaim for CBS Radio in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Don had to edit the interviews down to a two-minute radio show, Book Beat. We are making available the entire uncut, behind-the-scenes interview, typically 30 to 45 minutes in length. This is the first time the entire interviews have been made publicly available. You can listen to the interviews in RealAudio. We are continuing to encode the complete 700-plus interviews in the Don Swaim collection.
Sometime before Christmas, we will have the long version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol on Wired for Books in RealAudio. This is the third major dramatic audio production of a major literary work that we have put online. Audio productions of William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Lewis Carroll's The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland are also available as unabridged dramatic audio works.
In the poetry corner, we have a collection of both spoken and written poems from contemporary and classic poets. The poetry ranges from the works of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to poet laureate Robert Pinsky reading his poems or Terry Anderson reading the poems he wrote while held captive in Beirut for nearly seven years.
Our most popular offerings are the works of Beatrix Potter, including her classic children's story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. As part of our international outreach project, we are actively translating Beatrix Potter's stories in to Japanese and eventually, many other languages. These stories are presented as text and pictures, as well as read aloud. Some slide shows with audio, images, and text are also available.
You might be interested to know that the project began in the library, sort of. Our first Wired for Books project was based on the popular Let's Talk About It programs. The discussions of the works of Raymond Carver, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Leo Tolstoy are online in RealAudio, with transcripts available for reading.
Without naming names, I'll will say that some of the commercial subscription-based online databases are linking to Wired for Books, but Wired for Books is still available to everyone for free! I hope you'll visit.
--David
Laurie Mahaffey Central Texas Library System P. O. Box 2287 Austin TX 78768-2287 512-476-1668 ext 16 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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