NCB News Fall 2005 Page 8

Healing through Poetry, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
Contact: Virginia Aita, PhD, 402-559-5157, vaita@unmc.edu,

Neihardt Sunday at the Museum Slide presentation by Dean Jacobs, author of Wondrous Journey, Contact: John Neihardt State Historic Site, 888-777-4667, neihardt@gpcom.net

Paul A. Olson Seminar: Teaching in Eden: The Cedar Point Lessons with John Janovy, Jr., UN-L, Contact: Center for Great Plains Studies, Kim Weide, 402-472-3964, kweide@unlnotes.unl.edu, www.unl.edu/plains/seminars/Olson/olsonseminars.html

John H. Ames Reading Series: Robert Reed, Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors,
Contact: Meredith McGowan, Lincoln City Libraries, 402-441-8516, m.mcgowan@lincolnlibraries.org, www.lcl.lib.ne.us/depts/hr/front.htm

Nebraska State Reading Conference: Promoting Literacy Across Nebraska, Contact: Gail Hayes, Nebraska State Reading Association, ghayes@lps.org, www.nereads.org/conference/index.html

Lee Booksellers Reading: Barbara Schmitz, Contact: Linda Hillegass, Lee Booksellers Edgewood, 402-420-1919, info@leebooksellers.com, www.leebooksellers.com

An Evening of Art and Literature: Omaha Public Library Foundation “Shelf Life 2006” fundraiser, Contact: Roxanne Williams, 402-444-4589, rwilliams@omahapubliclibrary.org, http://omahapubliclibrary.org/

Bess Streeter Aldrich Birthday Open House, Contact: Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation, Teresa Lorensen, 402-994-3855, tlorensen@alltel.net

The Clean Part Reading Series featuring Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Jake Adam York
Contact: Zach and Mathias, thecleanpart@excite.com, http://thecleanpart.blogspot.com/

Lee Booksellers Reading: Sean Doolittle,
Contact: Linda Hillegass, Lee Booksellers Edgewood, 402-420-1919, info@leebooksellers.com, www.leebooksellers.com

Lee Booksellers Reading: Thomas D. Jones
Contact: Linda Hillegass, Lee Booksellers Edgewood, 402-420-1919, info@leebooksellers.com, www.leebooksellers.com

Read Across America Day
Contact: National Education Association, 888-747-READ, www.nea.org/readacross

Neihardt Sunday at the Museum, Ron Hull, NET, on “My Two Friends: Sandoz and Neihardt”
Contact: John Neihardt State Historic Site, 888-777-4667, neihardt@gpcom.net

Freedom of Information Day, Contact: ALA/PIO, 800-545-2433,
www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washevents/events.htm

John H. Ames Reading Series: Susanne George Bloomfield,
Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors
Contact: Meredith McGowan, Lincoln City Libraries, 402-441-8516,
m.mcgowan@lincolnlibraries.org, www.lcl.lib.ne.us/depts/hr/front.htm

Paul A. Olson Seminar: The Nebraska Legislature: Still Progressive After All These Years with
Charlyne Berens, UN-L, Contact: Center for Great Plains Studies, Kim Weide, 402-472-3964,
kweide@unlnotes.unl.edu, www.unl.edu/plains/seminars/Olson/olsonseminars.html