Library Receives Programming Support For New Moyers PBS Series

The Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC) Library is one of 12 libraries nationwide selected to receive funding for local programming related to a new Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) series by Bill Moyers called "On Our Own Terms."

Produced by Public Affairs Television, New York, the series seeks to expand the American conversation on how we deal with dying and care at the end of life. From interviews he has conducted across the country, Moyers will recount remarkable human stories of the dying, their families, and their caregivers as they struggle to balance medical intervention with comfort and humanity at the end of life. Local programming is supported by grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kettering Foundation, Dayton, Ohio, to the American Library Association.

The Library will take part in a national outreach effort that includes PBS stations, caregiving organizations, medical personnel, foundations, newspapers and other media, ethics groups and clergy. With the help of a local programming group that includes representatives from KUHT Houston Public Television, medical organizations and the educational sector, the HAM-TMC Library will sponsor four public programs related to the series. More information will follow in the next issue of Library Lines.

Programs will include a reading and discussion session; a panel presentation featuring community representatives from caregiving organizations, educators and others; a Kettering Foundation National Issues Forum debate about options at the end of life; and a community meeting to examine local opinion on topics raised in Our Own Terms. The local group will also plan further activities to continue the conversation on care at the end of life.

On Our Own Terms will be broadcast on PBS stations across the United States on four consecutive evenings, September 10-13, 2000, 8:00 - 9:30pm. Program I: Living with Dying; Program II: A Different Kind of Care; Program III: A Death of One's Own; Program IV: A Time to Change.

For more information contact Beatriz Varman at beatrizv@library.tmc.edu or (713) 799-7169.

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