Planet Library: Let's Go Library Expo

The Let's Go Library Expo series of online conferences is the first component of Planet Library.

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Let's Go Library Expo: Books, eBooks, and Audiobooks

Thursday, July 28, 2005

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.

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