"In October 2003, the Brooklyn College Library participated as a hosting institution for four librarians and a facilitator visiting from the far stretches of Russia. The visitors came to the United States as part of the Open World Library Managers Program."
Fade in Open World Logo on top of Shilohette of Russian map.
Open world logo splits in center with top portion moving fast off screen to left and bottom portion moving off screen to right. Shilohette of Russian map remains.
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Zoom up individual head shots of each of the librarians as they are named. Zoom their head shots to their geographical locations after each description. As consecutive head shots are placed on the map, a bold line draws to connect them.
Voice over and caption text:
Yelena Rzhevskaya, Head of Foreign Literature Department at the Ignatov Brothers Children's Library, Krasnodar Region, looked foward to her trip to the United States in order to learn about the interests of American children and teenagers, how they use the internet and what books they read. Yelena traveled to the US from Kraznador in the fertile Kray region of southwest of Russia.
Tatyana Rudnitskaya, a Consultant for USA Educational Issues, has worked closely with American colleagues at the Rostov-on-Don State Library, American Educational Center. Tatyana, a lover of classical music and jazz, joined us from Rostov on Don, a port city XXX kilometers from Kraznador.
Lyba Suyazova, the youngest member of the group, is the Chief Librarian of the Molchanov-Sibirskiy State Scientific Library, American Center, in the Irkutsk Region. Lyba, a native of Siberia, commented on the chilliness of New York City climate in the early fall and was able to speak fluently in Spanish, as well as English with her host family.
Tamara Terekhova, the senior member of the delegation, has done post graduate studies in Biochemistry at the Institute of Cytology under the USSR Academy of Sciences and currently works as, in addition to serving as the Program Coordinator for the Open Society Institute, East Siberia Branch at the Vladivostok University Internet Center. She is also the president of the Primorye Library Association. Tamara's hopes for her trip to the US are to form international bonds between library associations in Russia and the United States. Tamara joined us from the far eastern city of Vladivosdok, xx kilometers from the Russian border with China.
The delegation also included a facilitator, Elena Loza. Elena joined the group to help with translations in social functions and to work on travel logistics. Elena, like Tamara, has connections with Vladivostok. Her parents have lived there for more than a decade. But Elena herself came to us from St. Petersberg, the second largest city in Russia and the heart of much of Russia's cultural life.
Traditional Russian music on soundtrack. Show various still images of Russia. End zooming in on image of Russian Girl scholastic book
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Voice over and text (as narration proceeds, camera zooms in on mural image of globe): The Russian librarians and their facilitator were among a group of 200 visitors, traveling in 40 delegations to hosting communities throughout the United States during 2003.
Sites that have photos: Begin with this one because it has a globe: http://www.scc.spokane.edu/news/russian_visit.htm
This site has lots of photos including some in D.C. with BC Russian librarians, too, (use this as second image) and some children's room photos. Use this with WPPL children's room photos. Copper mine photos and final boat photo are good.
Zoom in on capital tower and then image becomes BC library tower. Pull back on image and get view of BC campus with image of five librarians superimposed against this background. Then fade to image of five librarians in multipurpose room.
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Accordian folded wall in picture of Barbra with speakers panel.
The program at Brooklyn College opened with a panel discussion....
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At midweek, the College held a reception in their honor. College faculty, administration, students and Russian-speaking librarians from other New York area libraries welcomed the visitors , sampled hors d'houvres, and compared locations on maps hanging on the walls in the Library Multi-Purpose room.
The guests included Marty Markowitz, a Brooklyn College alum and the Borough President, as well as a representative from the Office of Congressman Ed Towns. Marty enjoyed the figurine given to him by the librarians from Vladivostok. He didn't miss an opportunity to joke about his resemblence to the small statue.
The Mayor of White Plains, was equally enchanted with his gift, a
Then downstate with Russian speaking guide. End with Brighton Beach.