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From: "Lori Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:32 PM
Subject: Freed on Multimedia Ebooks


Greetings!  This Thursday afternoon beginning at 4:00
Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 Central, 2:00 Mountain,
and 1:00 Pacific there will be a one-hour online
interview with Geoff Freed.  Freed is the Project
Manager of the Beyond the Text Project at the CPB/WGBH
National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM).  They are
studying ways to make multimedia (images, audio and
video) used in e-books accessible to people who are
deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind or visually impaired.

To access the interview:

1.  Go to the following URL:
http://www.tcconference.com/lib?auditorium&nopass_field=1


2.  You will be taken to an entry screen containing
very little information.  Move your cursor into the
box to the right of the word "name" and input your
name.

3.  After you input your name, simply press the Enter
key on your keyboard.  You will proceed into the
online meeting room.

This interview is sponsored by the Mid-Illinois
Talking Book Center (www.mitbc.org) and is part of
OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries)
(http://www.opal-online.org), a collaborative effort
of libraries of all types to increase and improve
access to online programming for all library users.


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