C-Span Mobile Unit Comes to Park (with alumna aboard) Sept 1

The C-SPAN Civics Bus will roll into Ithaca on Tuesday, Sept. 1, making 
stops on the Ithaca College campus and at the Tompkins County Public 
Library. The 45-foot mobile production studio and demonstration center 
is currently on a cross-country tour of colleges and universities, 
libraries, state capitals and other community venues to share C-SPAN’s 
education and civic resources.

The bus will be parked behind the Roy H. Park School of Communications 
at Ithaca College from 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., and at the Tompkins County 
Public Library at 101 East Green Street from 1–3 p.m.

Visitors are invited to tour the bus and learn about the many resources 
C-SPAN offers, including C-SPAN Classroom, a free membership service for 
educators with downloadable video clips; the C-SPAN Video library; and 
C-SPAN’s television coverage of the nation’s capital.

Aboard the bus will be C-SPAN marketing representative Sarah Parker, a 
1998 Ithaca College graduate. “We’ve been all over the country with the 
C-SPAN Civics Bus, but I’m especially looking forward to bringing it 
back to South Hill,” says Parker.

Currently celebrating 30 years as Washington’s political network of 
record, C-SPAN was created by America’s cable companies as a public 
service in 1979. C-SPAN produces three public affairs television 
networks, C-SPAN Radio, and a video-rich website. Its programs can be 
seen in over 95 million cable and satellite households. The local visits 
are sponsored by Time Warner Cable.