Fwd: [archivists] Announcement: Online Conference about eBooks and Digital Audiobooks (fwd)

Potentially interesting.   *Not* run by archive.org; the organizer was
just spamming the archivists list.  Perhaps someone free can attend
and report back?

SJ


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From: Samuel Klein <[email protected]>
Date: Jul 26, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: [archivists] Announcement:  Online Conference about eBooks
and Digital Audiobooks (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:43:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Peters <tapinformation-/[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [archivists] Announcement:  Online Conference about eBooks and
    Digital Audiobooks

This announcement is being sent to several lists, with apologies
extended to those who receive multiple copies.

You are invited to attend an online conference about books, ebooks,
and digital audiobooks to be held on Thursday, July 28, 2005 (early
Friday morning in Australasia).  There is no cost to register, and
there is no registration deadline.  Already over 185 librarians,
information technologists, ebook and digital audiobook users,
publishers, and others from across the U.S. and around the world have
registered to attend this innovative online conference.

To participate all you need is an Internet-connected computer running
a Microsoft Windows operating system (Windows 98 or later), Mac OS X,
or Linux.  If in addition to text-chatting you wish to communicate via
voice-over-IP, you need to have a microphone connected to--or embedded
in--your computer.

The homepage for the conference website is:

http://www.planetlibrary.info/lgleindex.htm

The direct link to the conference registration page is:

http://www.planetlibrary.info/tinc?key=opjmI0gx&formname=LGLEregister200507

If you want to test your connection prior to the day of the online
conference, here is the link to one of the online conference rooms:

http://67.19.231.218/v4/login.asp?r=7c4d784b&p=0

Access to this room is available 24/7 from now until the conclusion of
the conference.  Please note:  The first time you enter one of these
online meeting rooms, the operating system you are using may ask for
your permission to download and automatically install a small, safe
software plug-in.

In addition to vendor exhibits and opportunities for informal
networking, this conference will feature the following outstanding
speakers:


   Mark Beatty from WILS: Wilsconsin Library Services

   Lori Bell (Director of the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center):
An Introduction to Digital Audiobooks

   Charlotte Johnson (Director of User Services at Lovejoy Library,
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville), and William Harroff
(Reference and Information Technologies Librarian, Holman Library,
McKendree College):
(r)Evolutionary (e)Books

   Asra Nomani (Author of the new book Standing Alone in Mecca, one
woman's pilgrimage to reclaim the rightful role of women in Islam):
Interview and Online Book Signing

   Jon Noring from the OpenReader Consortium, a cooperative project to
create a universal, open standards digital publication distribution
format.

   David Rothman from TeleRead, an organization dedicated to bringing
ebooks home and advocating for well-stocked national digital
libraries.

   Blake Squires from Findaway, Inc., which will begin selling the
Playaway self-contained digital audiobook device in October.

   Juliet Sutherland from Distributed Proofreaders, supporting the
digitization of public domain books.

   Lori Watrous-deVersterre from LibraryCity, dedicated to bringing
ebooks to online communities in the Carnegie tradition.

   Claudia Weissman from OverDrive, a leading digital book and digital
audiobook vendor for libraries and retailers.


This online conference is part of Let's Go Library Expo, a planned
series of online conferences on timely topics related to librarianship
and information technology.  Please watch for announcements of future
conferences in this series.

It is being organized by:

   Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center

   North Suburban Library System near Chicago

   Alliance Library System in Central Illinois

   TAP Information Services near Kansas City


The conference is sponsored by:

OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), a leading digital book and digital
audiobook vendor for libraries and retailers.

For more information please visit the conference website
(http://www.planetlibrary.info/lgleindex.htm) or contact Tom Peters
from TAP Information Services (tpeters-fAN9xjeiBT1J/[email protected]).  Thank
you!



Tom Peters

TAP Information Services
1000 SW 23rd Street
Blue Springs, MO 64015
phone:  816-228-6406
email:  tapinformation-/[email protected]
web:  www.tapinformation.com

TAP Information Services provides a wide variety of high quality
planning, consulting, research, and assessment services
supporting libraries, library consortia, government agencies,
professional associations, and other information-intensive
organizations.

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