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In conjunction with Kansas Reads…In Cold Blood, the one-book/one-state project, the Kansas Center for the Book was awarded a grant from the Kansas Humanities Council to explore the book by that title, by author Truman Capote, as literature and as
it portrays Kansas past and present.
This humanities project consists of nine programs by four humanities scholars, discussing the book and standing for questions. These programs will be
held at nine libraries, and four will be broadcast to Enhanced Library Meeting Rooms (ELMeR) and offered to all 18 sites throughout the state with ELMeR technology, increasing the audiences many times over. In addition, the broadcast programs will be
streamed online and archived for future viewing.
If your library has ELMeR capacity, you can join the programs being broadcast and interact with the scholars. All nine programs are free and open to
the public.
To participate in the broadcasts, contact the Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library of Kansas to be added to our list of participants no
later than January 29, 2008. The list will be forwarded to Kanren for equipment testing prior to the program dates. Send the name of your library and dates you would like to:
Roy Bird
Kansas Center for the Book
State Library of Kansas
kcfb@kslib.info
Scholars Event Calendar
*ELMeR broadcast programs
Sunday, January 27, 2008 -- Finney County Public Library, Garden City, scholar—Sara Jane Richter, Panhandle State University
Monday, February 4, 2008 -- Grant County Library, Ulysses, scholar—Sara Jane Richter
*Thursday, February 7, 2008 --
Dodge City Public Library, Dodge City, scholar—Clark Killion, Dodge City Community College
Monday, February 11, 2008 -- Pioneer Memorial Library, Colby, scholar—Clark Killion
Thursday, February 14, 2008 -- Frank Carlson Library, Concordia, scholar—Paul Fecteau, Washburn University
*Sunday, February 17, 2008 --
Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, Junction City, scholar—Thomas Fox Averill, Washburn University
*Thursday, February 21, 2008 -- Coffey County Library, Burlington Branch, scholar—Paul Fecteau
Monday, February 25, 2008, Hutchinson Pubic Library, scholar—Clark Killion
*Monday, February 25, 2008 -- Lawrence Public Library, scholar—Thomas Fox
Averill
Scholars
Clark Killion is a professor of composition and director of the Writing Center in the English Department at Dodge City Community College.
Sara Jane Richter is dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Panhandle State University at Goodwell, OK, member of the KHC Speakers Bureau and a
presenter on the KHC “History Alive” program.
Thomas Fox Averill is a professor of English and writer in residence at Washburn University of Topeka, as well as being a well-known authority
on Kansas literature. He teaches Kansas literature, folklore, and film.
Paul Fecteau is a professor of English at Washburn University of Topeka who teaches In Cold Blood in his classes. He is an authority
about true crime novels.
Join the audiences at the libraries where these scholars will be presenting. If your library has ELMeR technology, use this to enhance your local programming for
Kansas Reads…In Cold Blood with the opportunity for your patrons to participate in the scholar presentations in these communities! If not, your library can still join by viewing the online streaming video or visiting the archived site. The url for
this will be provided as soon as it is available.
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