[Web4lib] One Book Many Formats: The Magic of Multimedia

[Lori Bell]

The Alliance Library System, the Mid-Illinois Talking
Book Center, and the Illinois State Library Talking
Book and Braille Service are pleased to announce the
second annual Audio Ebook Expo!  The theme for the one
day in-person and online conference is “One Book, Many
Formats: The Magic of Multimedia.”

The Expo will be held at Alliance headquarters in East
Peoria and as an online conference on Wednesday
September 28, 2005 from 9:00 A.M. - 3:45 P.M. central
time.  Speakers and participants will explore all the
exciting new formats for ebooks and audio books which
create a personal and customized reading experience
for all those who have trouble with regular print
because of visual, physical, or learning disabilities.
Books in these new formats also benefit and make
reading more fun for children and adults who have
trouble reading, who are learning English as a second
language, or who just want to listen to audio books
for entertainment.

Speakers include Geoff Freed from WGBH from the
“Beyond the Text Project;” Bill Harroff, McKendree
College; Charlotte Johnson, Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville; Judy Dixon from Library of
Congress National Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped; Tom Peters of TAP Information
Services;  Steve Potash from Overdrive; Paul
Cappuzzello from OCLC/netLibrary; and Sharon Ruda from
the Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille
Service.

For more information on the program and to register,
go to the conference website at
http://www.mitbc.org/audiobookexpo/index.html.  For
those attending in person, there is a $10 registration
cost to cover lunch. There is no charge for talking
book readers. There is no charge for online
attendance.  For more information, contact Lori Bell
at the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center at
lbell at alliancelibrarysystem.com.


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