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From: Dee Jones <dajones>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:34:25 -0500
We'd like to invite those of you who will be at the American Library Assn. conference in Chicago in July, to the following presentation:
COLLECTIONS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR ADULT RESEARCH DISCUSSION GROUP
Foreign Correspondent to the Past: Researching the Lives of Famous Children's Authors
Biographer Angelica Carpenter describes research techniques for her three books for young people: Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden; L. Frank Baum: Royal Historian of Oz; and Robert Louis Stevenson: Finding Treasure Island (all from Lerner Publications). She will discuss primary and secondary sources, visiting relevant sites, organizing information, and the ways in which Internet access has changed research techniques. Examples will focus especially on L. Frank Baum as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Angelica Carpenter is Curator of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University, Fresno. Please see her website at http://zimmer.csufresno.edu An active member of the International Wizard of Oz Club, she chairs the
"Comparative Literature/ Criticism" track for the Club's upcoming centennial conference, to be held at Indiana University, July 20#, 2000. For information about the conference, see the club website at http://www.ozclub.org
JOIN US AT ALA Sunday, July 9, 2000 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chicago Hilton Personal Dining Room 2
(ALA room code: PDR2) 720 S. Michigan Ave.
For further information, please contact Dee Jones 601&6C49
******************************************************************** Dee Jones, Curator Phone: 601&6C49 de Grummond Collection Fax: 601&6b69 University Libraries E-mail: dajones at ocean.otr.usm.edu Box 5148 Visit our website at: University of Southern Mississippi http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum Hattiesburg, MS 39406Q48
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Received on Wed 31 May 2000 08:34:25 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:34:25 -0500
We'd like to invite those of you who will be at the American Library Assn. conference in Chicago in July, to the following presentation:
COLLECTIONS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR ADULT RESEARCH DISCUSSION GROUP
Foreign Correspondent to the Past: Researching the Lives of Famous Children's Authors
Biographer Angelica Carpenter describes research techniques for her three books for young people: Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden; L. Frank Baum: Royal Historian of Oz; and Robert Louis Stevenson: Finding Treasure Island (all from Lerner Publications). She will discuss primary and secondary sources, visiting relevant sites, organizing information, and the ways in which Internet access has changed research techniques. Examples will focus especially on L. Frank Baum as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Angelica Carpenter is Curator of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University, Fresno. Please see her website at http://zimmer.csufresno.edu An active member of the International Wizard of Oz Club, she chairs the
"Comparative Literature/ Criticism" track for the Club's upcoming centennial conference, to be held at Indiana University, July 20#, 2000. For information about the conference, see the club website at http://www.ozclub.org
JOIN US AT ALA Sunday, July 9, 2000 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Chicago Hilton Personal Dining Room 2
(ALA room code: PDR2) 720 S. Michigan Ave.
For further information, please contact Dee Jones 601&6C49
******************************************************************** Dee Jones, Curator Phone: 601&6C49 de Grummond Collection Fax: 601&6b69 University Libraries E-mail: dajones at ocean.otr.usm.edu Box 5148 Visit our website at: University of Southern Mississippi http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum Hattiesburg, MS 39406Q48
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Received on Wed 31 May 2000 08:34:25 AM CDT
