215 South 15th Street
Omaha, NE 68102-1629
Phone: 402-444-4800 / Fax: 402-444-4504
http://www.omahapubliclibrary.org
215 South 15th Street Omaha, NE 68102-1629 Phone: 402-444-4800 / Fax: 402-444-4504 http://www.omahapubliclibrary.org |
| For Immediate Release
September 6, 2007 (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest to Welcome C-SPAN’s Book TV Bus |
| Book lovers and production buffs won’t want to miss C-SPAN’s
Book TV Bus, coming to the (downtown) omaha lit fest, Sept.
14-15. The
45-foot long mobile television production studio will be open for free
tours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the 15th Street side of Omaha Public Library’s
W. Dale Clark Library. The bus is on a nationwide tour, stopping at libraries, bookstores, book festivals and community events to promote Book TV's unique non-fiction book programming. Visitors will be able to tour the studio set, participate in an interactive demonstration about Book TV programming, and learn how a television show is produced. Visit the Book TV Bus Sept. 14 & 15, 2007 10 AM – 5 PM Omaha Public Library – W. Dale Clark Library / 215 S. 15th St. / 444-4800 About Book TV: For a solid 48 hours every weekend (7a.m. on Saturdays to 7a.m. on Mondays) Book TV airs non-fiction book programming on history, biographies, politics, current events, the media and other topics. Book TV also features author interviews and readings. For more information visit www.booktv.org. About C-SPAN: In 1979 American cable companies established C-SPAN as a public service. C-SPAN, the political network of record, is currently available in 90 million households, C-SPAN2 in 82 million households, and C-SPAN3 in 12 million households nationwide. For more information visit www.c-span.org. About Omaha Lit Fest: An annual mingling of readers and writers, the festival was cited in Library Journal; Poets & Writers; The New York Times; Style Magazine, which declared the lit fest “a particularly good time to visit” Omaha; and other national publications. Omaha World-Herald cited the fest as “another strong indication of Omaha’s continuous cultural growth and expansion of diverse activities” and an “impressive part of the landscape.” For a schedule of events, visit www.omahalitfest.com or omahapubliclibrary.org. Contact: Linda Trout, 402-444-4838, ltrout@omahapubliclibrary.org or Timothy Schaffert, 402-895-1988, timothy@omahalitfest.com |
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Date Posted
November 7, 2007
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