NCompass Live: 2019 One Book One Nebraska  'This Blessed Earth'
Channel: Nebraska Library Commission
Date: 2019-01-16

Recorded on January 16, 2019
NCompass Live - http://nlc.nebraska.gov/NCompassLive/

In this fifteenth year of One Book One Nebraska, we’re partnering with All Iowa Reads to inspire libraries and other literary and cultural organizations to plan activities and events to encourage all Nebraskans and Iowans to read and discuss the same book. Join us to hear more about this dual state reading promotion activity, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, Iowa Center for the Book, State Library of Iowa, and the Nebraska Library Commission.

We are very pleased to announce that our featured guest will be Ted Genoways, author of the 2019 selection, 'This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm'. 

 Join Nebraska Library Commission Director Rod Wagner, Nebraska Library Commission Communication Coordinator Tessa Terry, Christine Walsh, Nebraska Center for the Book President, and Becky Faber, Nebraska Center for the Book Board Member, to:

* Learn about how to create a successful local reading promotion using Nebraska’s year-long, statewide celebration featuring 'This Blessed Earth', by Ted Genoways.
* Brainstorm strategies to read and discuss 'This Blessed Earth'.
* Find tools to help engage your community in local activities to encourage them to come together through literature to explore this work in community-wide reading programs.
* Learn about the 2019 Celebration of Nebraska Books, which will celebrate this book, along with the winners of the 2019 Nebraska Book Awards.