David Rothman writes “David Faucheux–author of the Blind Chance blog praised by Audioblogger and featured as a Feedster Feed of the Day–will moderate an audio chatcast on the topic of historical fiction. It will start 7 p.m. CDT August 31, Tuesday.
As any follower of David’s audio blog can vouch, he is highly articulate and knowledgeable in his book reviews. David is a big fan of Gary Jenning’s novels and now has a new enthusiasm, My Antonia, topic of another forthcoming presentation from the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center.
David Rothman writes “David Faucheux–author of the Blind Chance blog praised by Audioblogger and featured as a Feedster Feed of the Day–will moderate an audio chatcast on the topic of historical fiction. It will start 7 p.m. CDT August 31, Tuesday.
As any follower of David’s audio blog can vouch, he is highly articulate and knowledgeable in his book reviews. David is a big fan of Gary Jenning’s novels and now has a new enthusiasm, My Antonia, topic of another forthcoming presentation from the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center.
This is “good read” territory. No need for stuffy academic discussion. Dive right in and join David; share your own finds in the historical fiction category. While the chatcasts are for the blind and visually impaired, anyone can join in. Tom Peters, host of MITBC’s Meting of the Minds and eBookWorm, will participate in David’s discussion.
Got blind or visually impaired patrons or others interested in historical fiction–and a PC in your library with a sound card and a speaker (microphone helpful but optional)? Perhaps you could invite these known HF fans to come to the library and enjoy the Faucheux chatcast and maybe hold a local discussion afterwards.
With book sections shrinking in recent years, public libraries need new techniques to promote interest in books. Local-national events such as audio chatcasts are one way for this to happen–via publicity in local media.
Another form of promotion might be to come up with a notice on a paper bookmark that the circulation desk can hand out to patrons who are reading books similar to those about to be fodder for a chatcast.
Tip: If you haven’t particpated in MITBC’s chatcasts before, you might want hold off the promo until you’ve experienced the present one and can confirm that your hookup is functioning well. The software downloads automatically and is very easy to deal with.
Note: I host David’s blog on the TeleRead site but would feel the same about his work even if I did not have a connection with him.”
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