Reading Group videoconferencing overseas
Posted by Brian Kelly on October 28th, 2010
Picked this message up recently from the mcg@jiscmail.ac.uk email list. So libraries, if you’ve got reading groups (seem to be more usually called book clubs in the USA) set up, why not think about this opportunity and contact Tim Boundy (details at bottom of post).
Subject: Trans-Atlantic Library Book Clubs using Videoconferencing
An interesting opportunity for Libraries…
The Internet2 K20 Initiative (the educational high speed network in the States) is looking for UK public libraries interested in participating in cultural exchange events across the Atlantic.
Specifically, several US public libraries with active book clubs are interested in connecting with other book clubs in libraries in the UK via videoconferencing.
If you have an active book club that might enjoy going global and using videoconferencing please let me know, and we can help to connect up your libraries.
Tim Boundy
National Education Network Services Group
Content Coordinator
t: 01235 822370
m: 07787 574036
VC via JVCS: lumen-house-membury-room@ja.net
Twitter: www.twitter.com/timboundy
JANET, the UK’s education and research network http://www.ja.net/
JANET Schools Group www.ja.net/schools
JANET(UK), Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0SG, UK.