[Libs-Or] SSD Conference Keynote: Bob Welch

Lori Davidson davidsol at wou.edu
Wed Jun 17 16:05:43 PDT 2009


SSD 2009 Conference Keynote: Bob Welch, award winning Oregon author

 

Pebble in the water: How libraries matter more than they might know

Based on his Oregon Book Award - finalist book, American Nightingale, Welch discusses his four-year journey to research, write, promote it - and how integral libraries were to the process.  

 

Welch is the general columnist at The Register-Guard in Eugene and twice has won top honors in the National Society of Newspaper Columnist contest.  He has written 12 books, had stories of his published in numerous collections and been published in such magazines as Reader's Digest, Sports Illustrated and Los Angeles Times.  Additionally, he is an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, and found of the Beachside Writers Workshop in Yachats, Oregon.  For more information visit Bob's website at www.bobwelch.net

 

 

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