{"id":7066,"date":"2011-05-04T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnnclc.wordpress.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:07:59","slug":"announcing-a-new-digital-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/05\/04\/announcing-a-new-digital-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing a new digital project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new project to digitize TV interviews by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uconn.edu\/about\/giving\/billielevy.html\"> Billie Levy<\/a> featuring authors, illustrators, editors, and collectors in the field of children&#8217;s literature is now available . They are from the &#8220;Children&#8217;s Books: Their Creators and Collectors&#8221; series filmed at WHC-TV. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uconn.edu\/services\/video\/streams.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.lib.uconn.edu\/services\/video\/streams.php<\/a> and scroll down, or go the web page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uconn.edu\/services\/video\/levy.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.lib.uconn.edu\/services\/video\/levy.php. <\/a>\u00a0There is also a link from the NCLC&#8217;s web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/nclc.uconn.edu\/\">http:\/\/nclc.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This project was made possible by the generosity of Susan Aller of West Hartford, in honor of our Miss Billie. The project was also made possible by West Hartford Community Television. Ms. Aller is the author of more than a dozen biographies for young people, including the stories of J. M. Barrie, Florence Nightingale, George Eastman, Louisa May Alcott, and Mary Jemison.\u00a0 She has worked as a magazine editor in New York City, and her essays on a variety of topics have appeared in <em>The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor<\/em>, and other publications.\u00a0 Ms. Aller is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and lived for extended periods in Spain and France, before coming to Connecticut in 1979.\u00a0\u00a0 As a collector of antique children\u2019s books, she has been an active supporter of the Northeast Children\u2019s Literature Collection at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.\u00a0 She participates weekly in a long-standing writers\u2019 group and is a member of the Saturday Morning Club of Hartford, a women\u2019s writing group founded in 1876. Ms. Aller is the mother of two married sons and has six grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Terri J. Goldich<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new project to digitize TV interviews by Billie Levy featuring authors, illustrators, editors, and collectors in the field of children&#8217;s literature is now available . They are from the &#8220;Children&#8217;s Books: Their Creators and Collectors&#8221; series filmed at WHC-TV. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/05\/04\/announcing-a-new-digital-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,353,1],"tags":[352,24,349,354,355,73,356,357,358],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1PY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}