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  • What if you couldn’t read the news?

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    ibiblio is very proud to provide hosting for two valuable organizations that serve the vision and print impaired by delivering news and print publications live on the radio and streaming online.

    Volunteers at Triangle Radio Reading Service (TRRS)   have been reading publications like The Wall Street Journal, The News and Observer, and Smithsonian magazine since 1983.

    The newer Down East Radio Reading Service broadcasts out of Rocky Mount, NC with a similar lineup, including periodicals like The New Yortk Times Magazine, Readers Digest, and The Rocky Mount Telegram.

    When asked “How would your life be different if TRRS did not exist?” listeners said:

    I’d be lost, it’s a blessing to me.”

    “It adds to the richness of my life.”

     DERRS listeners feel similarly:

    “I have had some rough times. I can’t believe someone takes their time to read all the news to me and it doesn’t even cost me a cent. I’m so glad there are still some mighty good folks in this world.”

    “I never knew about such a service during all the years I had my eyesight.  Now that I can no longer read, I am so grateful that someone cares enough to read to me.”

    Here’s a sample of the good work these organizations are doing. Volunteer John Pasteur reads from the April 1 issue of The New Yorker:

    To learn more about these organizations and how you can support them, click the links above, or to find a similar service in your part of the country, visit the International Association of Audio Information Services.

  • DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid

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    Friend of ibiblio Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) will be performing at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, NC on Friday, April 19th at 7pm.

    You can buy tickets here.

    From the event website:

    Miller is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called “illbient” or “trip hop”. He is a turntablist and producer. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. He is also a professor at the European Graduate School, Editor of ORIGINS Magazine and Artist in Residence at The MET.

    Plan for an unforgettable large-scale multimedia performance piece including mixing and projected images and live chamber music that he composed, performed in collaboration with locally acclaimed string players.”

    Should be a memorable evening!

    We welcomed DJ Spooky to the UNC campus in 2008 for a presentation in which he merged art forms, media, education, and performance, to challenge our notions what art is, how emerging technologies are driving a new era where the lines between artforms and media are blurred, and how these changes affect free speech and freedom of expression. You can watch that presentation, along with a question and answer session below:

  • Lessig Talk on Corruption in Politics Now Available

    Public Address by Prof. Lawrence Lessig from Center for Media Law and Policy on Vimeo.

    If you missed the March 4th lecture by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig at the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy, you can now watch the entire riveting presentation above. Lessig urged attendees to help him address what he called the single most important issue facing this country: Money in politics.