Web-based programming events for librarians and patrons

[Lori Bell]

OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) -
http://www.opal-online.org presents August online
programs! To attend any event, go to the OPAL Online
auditorium at
http://www.tcconference.com/lib/?auditorium&nopass_field=1
type your name and click enter and you will be in the
room! If you have questions or problems, please
contact Tom Peters at tapinformation at yahoo.com

·	Tuesday, August 24, 2004 beginning at 10:00 a.m.
Central Daylight Time, 11:00 Eastern, 9:00 Mountain,
and 8:00 Pacific: KLAS Online Catalog Training Would
you like some training on how to use the Illinois KLAS
OPAC so that you can search for and order your own
books over the Internet? The Mid-Illinois Talking Book
Center is offering this session for talking book
readers. All you need to participate are an Internet
connection, sound card, and speakers. If you have a PC
microphone, you can interact via audio, but it is not
required. We will tape the session and put it on the
web later so if you cannot attend but are interested
in the instruction, you can listen. Please email Lori
Bell at lbell at alliancelibrarysystem.com if you are
interested in attending. 
·	Tuesday, August 24, 2004 beginning at 2:00 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time, 1:00 p.m. Central, noon
Mountain, and 11:00 a.m. Pacific: Armchair Traveler
Get set to travel to far-flung locations and down-home
sites at the click of a mouse. Join Library of
Congress tour directors who will lead you in surfing
the library's online collections and resources from
Aruba to Zimbabwe and from Rutland, Vermont to
Redding, California. All aboard! 
·	Tuesday, August 24, 2004 beginning at 6:00 p.m.
Central Daylight Time, 7:00 Eastern, 5:00 Mountain,
and 4:00 Pacific: KLAS Online Catalog Training Would
you like some training on how to use the Illinois KLAS
OPAC so that you can search for and order your own
books over the Internet? The Mid-Illinois Talking Book
Center is offering this session for talking book
readers. All you need to participate are an Internet
connection, sound card, and speakers. If you have a PC
microphone, you can interact via audio, but it is not
required. We will tape the session and put it on the
web later so if you cannot attend but are interested
in the instruction, you can listen. Please email Lori
Bell at lbell at alliancelibrarysystem.com if you are
interested in attending. 

·	Tuesday, August 24, 2004 beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Central Daylight Time, 8:00 Eastern, 6:00 Mountain,
and 5:00 Pacific: The Meting of the Minds Online Book
Discussion Group will be discussing the novel My
Antonia by Willa Cather. A lawyer recalls his Nebraska
boyhood and the girl who was a strong influence on his
life in this novel about pioneering conditions and the
assimilation of the immigrant. (RC 13491 and BR 11320)
(2 cassettes). For your information, various digital
versions of the novel are available at Blackmask.com.
An online version in HTML format also is available
from the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial in Red Cloud,
Nebraska. A scholarly edition from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln is available online at
http://cather.unl.edu/works/se/antonia/entire/index.htm

·	Thursday, August 26, 2004 from 3:00 to 4:00 Central
Daylight Time: eBookWorm Online Discussion Group Our
featured guest this month will be George Kerscher,
Senior Officer for Accessible Information at Recording
for the Blind & Dyslexic, Secretary General of the
DAISY Consortium, Co-Chair of the Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C, and
Chairperson of the Open eBook Forum. 

·	Friday, August 27, 2004 beginning at 10:00 a.m.
Central Daylight Time, 11:00 Eastern, 9:00 Mountain,
and 8:00 Pacific: KLAS Online Catalog Training Would
you like some training on how to use the Illinois KLAS
OPAC so that you can search for and order your own
books over the Internet? The Mid-Illinois Talking Book
Center is offering this session for talking book
readers. All you need to participate are an Internet
connection, sound card, and speakers. If you have a PC
microphone, you can interact via audio, but it is not
required. We will tape the session and put it on the
web later so if you cannot attend but are interested
in the instruction, you can listen. Please email Lori
Bell at lbell at alliancelibrarysystem.com if you are
interested in attending. 

·	Tuesday, August 31, beginning at 8:00 Eastern
Daylight Time, 7:00 Central, 6:00 Mountain, and 5:00
Pacific: Historical Fiction Book Talk with David
Faucheux Interested in historic fiction? Do you like
to take journeys back to the past? To visit strange
and unusual cultures such as the Aztecs of Mexico or
the Japanese under the shogun or even to the settling
of South Africa or the world of the Byzantine Greeks?
Please join us online to discuss your favorite
historical fiction authors and books. Let us know what
you like and why. An hour of fun book talk with avid
reader David Faucheux, author of the audioblog Blind
Chance.