Alaska Online With Libraries (OWL) Program

Presenters: Mike Folkerts (US Coast Guard) and Deb Ylijoki (State of Alaska Boating Safety)
Description: Mike Folkerts, recreational boating specialist for the Coast Guard, will discuss safety equipment boaters are required to carry on board. Make sure your vessel is properly equipped with personal flotation devices, navigation lights and sound signals.

Presenter: Dr. Anastasia Wiley (SRS Corp, Haines, Alaska)
Description: Discussion of Tlingit place names at a February 21, 2013 event at the Haines Public Library.

Presenter: The HI-DE-HOs
Description: 45 minute concert by the Haines Alaska based bluegrass band Hi-De-Hos. Recorded on February 19, 2013.

Presenter: Senator Mark Begich
Description: Question and answer session between US Senator Mark Begich (Alaska) and teen students from Craig and Unalaska.

Presenters: Alaska’s Writer Laureate Nora Dauenhauer, Past Poet Laureate Richard Dauenhauer & Others
Description: Bringing the region’s rich history, cultures and traditions alive through creative stories and literature. Features readings and conversation with Tlingit Community Leaders. Sponsored by the Juneau Public Library, Alaska Online with Libraries (OWL), the Institute for Museum & Library Sciences, Petersburg Public Library, and the Petersburg Indian Association.

Presenter: Dr. Nancy E. Kinner, University of New Hampshire
Description: Dr. Nancy E. Kinner of the University of New Hampshire links up with libraries in Barrow Alaska and elsewhere to explain the basic properties of crude oil. Plain English with lots of charts and tables. This is part one of a two part series. Part two will examine the effects of crude oil on the environment.

Presenter: Dr. Nancy E. Kinner, University of New Hampshire
Description: Dr. Nancy E. Kinner of the University of New Hampshire links up with libraries in Barrow Alaska and elsewhere to explain the effects of crude oil on the environment. This is part two of two. Part one dealt with the basic properties of Crude Oil.

Presenter: Mandy Lindeberg of NOAA's Auke Bay Laboratories
Description: Mandy Lindeberg of NOAA's Auke Bay Laboratories discusses seaweed commonly found in Alaska and tours viewers around her "Guide to Seaweeds of Alaska."

Presenter: Sarah Moore, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
Description: Sarah Moore of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation provides information on home fuel oil tanks.

Presenter: Dr. Dipesh Navasria
Description: Learn basic principles of early brain and childhood development, the connection to literacy skills and innovative approaches that use these concepts to help children flourish in the first thousand days. Talk given at the Anchorage Public Library.

Presenter: Sarah Lewis, Alaska Cooperative Extension Service
Description: Sarah Lewis from the Cooperative Extension Service will give a presentation on ways to increase family and financial resilience through strategies for paying off debt; assessing "good" vs. "bad" debt, what to pay off first, managing credit card debt and planning a debt payoff schedule.

Presenter: Tinashe Basa and Dennis Gaboury, Trustees Zimkids Orphan Trust
Description: Tinashe Basa, 25, was born in a village in rural Zimbabwe, in a traditional handmade hut with a thatched roof, no electricity or running water. Like most rural children, he grew up hauling water from the nearest well, almost a mile away, and watching his parents try to scratch a bit of corn out of the dusty fields in his drought-stricken nation. Like most young Zimbabweans, he lives with one foot in the traditions of his Shona people - with its great respect for Elders, belief that the clan is more important than the individual, visits to local healers instead of doctors, and marriages arranged through payments to a bride’s family – and the other in the modern Western world of airplanes, computers and social media. Now the director of Zimkids Orphan Trust, which cares for 200 AIDS orphans in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city. AIDS has left tens of thousands of African children without parents, and Zimkids provides a safety net – a family – of food and medical care, tutoring, sports, art, traditional dance and vocational training for a group of the neediest. Read about them at www.zimkids.com. Tinashe is visiting the United States for the first time and will be in Fairbanks to raise money for Zimkids. Come to your local library on November 9 at 11 am and meet Tinashe over a video conference. He will be giving a presentation about his life and work from the Noel Wien library in Fairbanks over the OWL Network. You’ll be amazed at the similarities between Tinashe’s village and yours. (Thanks to Kenai Community Library for description.)