[3] netLibrary's Freedom of Expression Chat Session to Feature Terry Gross, Host of NPR's Fresh Air.Entertainment Editors BOULDER, Colo.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2000 netLibrary (www.netLibrary.com), the world's premier provider of electronic books over the Internet, today announced its next online chat, featuring Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio's Fresh Air (www.freshair.com), produced at WHYY in Philadelphia. The chat session will be held at the netLibrary website, www.netLibrary.com, on Thurs., Jan. 27, 2000, 9-10 p.m., EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy . The chat with Terry Gross is the latest in netLibrary's Freedom of Expression online discussion series, which launched during the American Library Association's Banned Books Week in October 1999. The Freedom of Expression Series is a yearlong year·long adj. Lasting one year. Adj. 1. yearlong - lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses" long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or effort to promote freedom of speech and uncensored access to information. The series features a number of today's most talked-about and thought-provoking authors, thinkers, and free speech advocates. In this free, public chat event, Terry Gross will discuss freedom of expression from her own perspective as the host of a sometimes controversial public radio program. "In her long and notable career as an interviewer and commentator, Terry Gross has tackled some of the most controversial issues head-on, probing ideas and bringing out the fresh thoughts and opinions that help keep awareness and appreciation of the freedom of speech alive," said netLibrary President and Chief Executive Officer Timothy R. Schiewe. Fresh Air is a Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues and one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week nearly two and a half million people tune in to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 250 National Public Radio stations across the country as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network. The one-hour program features in-depth interviews with prominent cultural and entertainment figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs current affairs npl → (noticias fpl de) actualidad f current affairs current npl → (questions fpl d')actualité f and news. "The free and open exchange of ideas is a right that must be defended," said Schiewe. "By establishing a forum that enables Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f to voice their opinions on censorship censorship, official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group. , freedom of expression, and access to information, netLibrary is helping take part in that defense." About netLibrary netLibrary provides readers anytime/anywhere access to an extensive collection of trade, reference, scholarly, and professional eBooks that can be viewed, searched, and checked out via the Internet. netLibrary offers books from more than 120 publishers including AMACOM AMACOM American Management Association Books, Harvard Business School Publishing Harvard Business School Publishing is a not-for-profit, wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard Business School. It operates as an umbrella corporation to manage a group of publishing products associated with the School, including Harvard Business Review (management journal), Harvard , Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers Company, The McGraw-Hill Companies, O'Reilly & Associates, and Oxford University Press. |
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