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Let's Go Library Expo: Books, eBooks, and Audiobooks
Conference Rooms
Each conference session will be held in one of the rooms listed below. To enter one of the rooms, simply
click on the room name, enter your name, and press Enter.
Please note: at any given time it is possible
to be in only one conference room. Please exit the online room you currently are in before entering another.
For your convenience, links to the rooms in which each session will be held are included in the full schedule below.
Blue Springs Room
Canton Room
Ipswich Room
Singapore Room
OverDrive Exhibit,
Hosting a LIVE Webinar on Download Audiobooks, 10:00AM-11:30AM EDT
Greenwood Exhibit
Lobby
for informal meetings and discussions between sessions
Schedule of Speakers and Exhibitor Presentations
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10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 9:00 Central, 8:00 Mountain, 7:00 Pacific, and 2:00 p.m. GMT:
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10:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 9:30 Central, 8:30 Mountain, 7:30 Pacific, and 2:30 p.m. GMT:
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11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 10:00 Central, 9:00 Mountain, 8:00 Pacific, and 3:00 p.m. GMT:
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Blake Squires provides an overview of the forthcoming
Playaway digital audiobook system
in the Ipswich Room.
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Lori Watrous-deVersterre provides an overview of LibraryCity,
dedicated to bringing ebooks to online communities in the Carnegie tradition, in the
Singapore Room.
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Noon Eastern Daylight Time, 11:00 a.m. Central, 10:00 Mountain, 9:00 Pacific, and 4:00 p.m. GMT:
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1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, noon Central, 11:00 a.m. Mountain, 10:00 Pacific, and 5:00 p.m. GMT:
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Jon Noring from the OpenReader Consortium,
a cooperative project to create a universal, open standards digital publication distribution format,
in the Canton Room.
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2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 1:00 Central, Noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT:
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Asra Nomani, author of the new book
Standing Alone in Mecca, one woman's pilgrimage to reclaim the rightful role of women in Islam, will be
speaking and conducting a virtual book signing in the
Blue Springs Room.
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To order a signed and inscribed copy of Standing Alone in Mecca, please
Click Here
to complete the online order form. The cost of the book, including shipping and handling, is 29.95 USD.
Signed copies of Asra Nomani's book can be shipped only to the contiguous 48 U.S. states and
Canada. The price may be slightly higher for Canadian residents. Order fullfillment will be made
by the Bookshelf Bookstore in Morgantown, West Virginia (304.599.4601), which will contact you
either via phone or email to confirm your order and to obtain payment information.
Please allow several weeks for delivery.
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Claudia Weissman from OverDrive will be discussing opportunities for ebooks
and downloadable digital audiobooks in the
Ipswich Room.
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2:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 1:30 Central, 12:30 Mountain, 11:30 a.m. Pacific, and 6:30 p.m. GMT:
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3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 2:00 Central, 1:00 Mountain, Noon Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT:
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4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 Central, 2:00 Mountain, 1:00 Pacific, and 8:00 p.m. GMT:
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Charlotte Johnson from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and William Harroff from
McKendree College discuss (r)evolutionary (e)books in the
Blue Springs Room.
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