Two programs on ebooks at ALA

[Karen Coyle]

Saturday, 4:00-5:30, Renaissance Orlando, Crystal Ballroom E
  E-Book Update, with publishers, ebook technology companies, and
librarians.

Monday, June 28, 2004 9:30-11:00 a.m. 208B Orlando Convention Center
  WHEN ARE E-BOOKS _THE_ BOOKS? Best practices in publishing & using
electronic books

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Program Title:  E-Book Update: Content, Technology, Standards

Abstract:  Steady progress is being made in publishing, marketing and
distributing e-books. Important standards are reaching a mature stage.
E-Book promoters see a strong foundation for future success of this
digital product. What ebooks and formats are popular today? What will be
the next big thing? A roundtable of experts from publishing, technology
and libraries will discuss recent events and their views of the future.

Where:  Crystal Ballroom E of the Renaissance Orlando Hotel 

When: Saturday, June 26, 2004 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. 

Members of the Roundtable:  Theresa Horner from HarperCollins, Cynthia
Orr from the Cleveland Public Library, Andrew Pace from North Carolina
State University, and Steve Potash from OverDrive.  

Moderator:  Tom Peters of TAP Information Services 

Sponsored by LITA, and organized by Karen Coyle, Digital Library
Specialist

Tom Peters
TAP Information Services
1000 SW 23rd Street
Blue Springs, MO 64015
phone: 816-228-6406
email: tapinformation at yahoo.com
web: www.tapinformation.com

TAP Information Services provides a wide variety of high quality 
planning, consulting, research, and assessment services 
supporting libraries, consortia, government agencies, associations, 
and other information organizations.
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The Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations Interest Group Presents the PVLR
Forum 

WHEN ARE E-BOOKS _THE_ BOOKS? Best practices in publishing & using
electronic books 

Monday, June 28, 2004 9:30-11:00 a.m. 208B Orlando Convention Center

Wondering whether an e-book is the right purchase for your library? 
The Forum presents a panel discussion between publisher, vendor, 
library-publisher collaborator, and librarians, that will cover
production and purchase of e-books from varied points of view.  What
informs the decision to publish a book in electronic format? What does
it take to make the e-book format successful?  How well do e-books work
for library users? These and other questions relating to e-books will be
addressed by the panel: 

Bob Brand (Senior Manager Technical Support, Knovel Corp.) presents an
aggregator's perspective on providing access to e-books. 
Greg Giblin (Director of Market Development, STM Division, John Wiley
and Sons, Inc.) gives a publisher's experience with developing useable,
sustainable e-book products. 
Kimberly Parker (Electronic Publishing and Collections Librarian, Yale
University) offers a librarian's point of view on purchasing and
integrating e-books into a collection. 
Mark Sandler (Collection Development Officer, University of Michigan),
talks about collaborative publishing efforts between commercial
publishers (Proquest, Paratext, OCLC) and the University of Michigan
Press-- most notably Early English Books Online.   

Panel moderator:  Ruth Fischer (R2 Consulting) 

Rick Lugg
R2 Consulting
63 Woodwell's Garrison
Contoocook, NH 03229

rick at r2consulting.org

p: 603-746-5991
f:  603-746-6052

www.ebookmap.net
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Karen Coyle
Digital Library Specialist
http://www.kcoyle.net
Ph: 510-540-7596 Fax: 510-848-3913
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