Posted in Uncategorized at 10:24 am by Greg Landgraf
One of the earliest requests we had when we started AL Focus was to include transcripts of videos. We looked for an easy, elegant way to provide them… and didn’t find any.
We did, eventually, find a more mundane way, thanks to John Chrastka, ALA’s director of Membership Development, and Molly Sasajima of ALA Conference Services, who actually did the transcribing work. As a result, all of the AL Focus videos now have transcripts. To access them, simply click on the “Transcript” link in each video’s description. The transcript will open in a new tab or window, so the video will not be interrupted.
I don’t plan on making this a regular occurrence, but I’d like to take an opportunity to plug an AL Focus video:
I’m sharing this for the content, not the cinematography (of which there’s more or less none). This is Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, reading a letter from one of his readers, at the Banned Books Read-Out in Chicago September 27.
That description really doesn’t do the video justice, though. It’s one of the most powerful arguments I’ve seen for keeping a book available—an utterly visceral approach to intellectual freedom, rather than a, well, intellectual one.