The author Willa Cather, who in her novel My Antonia
depicted 19th-century prairie life in the Red Cloud
area, would have appreciated the global online
discussion of her novel to be held next Tuesday,
September 21, beginning at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight
Time, 7:00 Central, 6:00 Mountain, and 5:00 Pacific.
You are cordially invited to participate.
This online event, sponsored by the Mid-Illinois
Talking Book Center (http://www.mitbc.org/) (MITBC)
and co-hosted by the Cather Project at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln (http://cather.unl.edu/), will
include a panel of graduate students from the
University of Nebraska as well as lovers of the novel
the world over, including blind and visually impaired
readers served by MITBC and other talking book
centers.
The web address of the discussion is
http://www.tcconference.com/lib?auditorium&nopass_field=1.
We recommend that people come to the website a few
minutes early to try out the software.
To participate, you do not need a high speed Internet
setup. A 56K dialup connection will work. A
soundcard and speakers or a headset are necessary to
hear the discussion. A microphone is optional since
you can use a keyboard to type questions and share
your thoughts about this wonderful novel.
The necessary software for this event downloads
automatically to your computer as your enter the
online discussion room. The software program is very
small and will not harm your computer.
For your information, various digital versions of the
novel are available from Blackmast.com at
http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/newlinks/search.cgi?d=1&query=my+antonia.
An online version in HTML format
(http://www.willacather.org/MyAntonia/MyAntoniaHome.htm)
also is available from the Willa Cather Pioneer
Memorial in Red Cloud, Nebraska. An annotated
scholarly edition from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln is available online at
http://cather.unl.edu/works/se/antonia/entire/index.htm
This event is free of charge, and no registration is
necessary. For more information, please contact Tom
Peters ([log in to unmask]), who will be
facilitating the discussion.
The next ebookworm interview show is on Thursday,
September 23 beginning at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight
Time, 3:00 Central, 2:00 Mountain, and 1:00 Pacific:
eBookWorm Online Discussion Group Our featured guest
this month will be Dan Moore from Phoneticom, a
Swedish company. Phoneticom develops and sells DAISY
Generator, a production tool that generates fully
synchronized audio full-text talking books in the
DAISY format with artificial narration using
text-to-speech.
The web address of the discussion is
http://www.tcconference.com/lib?auditorium&nopass_field=1.
We recommend that people come to the website a few
minutes early to try out the software.
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