I hope many of you will consider joining me at the upcoming NISO Forum on E-books. The details are below:
NISO Forum: The E-Book Renaissance – Learn About the Possibilities from Experts in Libraries and Publishing
You’ve been hearing about e-books for years and now the tipping point for users seems to have arrived. How are content providers and libraries dealing with the challenges that e-books present in availability, distribution, licensing, discoverability, and access? How are they changing their processes and business models to incorporate e-books?
NISO has assembled a stellar group of speakers for a two-day forum on The E-Book Renaissance: Exploring the Possibilities Exposed by Digital Books, to be held on October 24-25 in Baltimore, Maryland. The speakers and panels, representing commercial and university publishers, public and academic libraries, vendors, service providers, and technologists will probe the key issues surrounding e-books from a variety of industry, library, scholarly, and consumer viewpoints. NISO educational forums are routinely praised for their excellent selection of speakers representing a diversity of viewpoints across the scholarly information community and the small size which provides opportunities to network with speakers and other attendees.
SPEAKERS and TOPICS
- Keynote Presentation: E-books: a Library and Publisher Partnership – Jamie LaRue (Director, Douglas County, Colorado Libraries)
- Panel discussion: Publisher and Content Provider Issues
- Alex Holzman (Director, Temple University Press)
- Jennifer Kemp (eProduct Manager, eBooks, Springer)
- Dean Smith (Director, Project MUSE)
- Libraries, Librarians and E-books
- Kristin Eschenfelder (Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison)
- Caren Milloy (Head of Projects, JISC Collections)
- E-Book Standards
- Beat Barblan (Director, Identifier Services, Bowker)
- Bill Kasdorf (Vice President, Apex Content Solutions)
- Roundtable Discussions – Topics from the NISO E-Book Special Interest Group
- Panel discussion: Vendors & Platform Providers
- Moderator: Sue Polanka (Head of Reference & Instruction, Wright State University Libraries)
- Matt Barnes (Vice President of Marketing, ebrary)
- Ken Breen (Senior Director, E-Book Products, EBSCO Publishing)
- Kari Paulson (President, EBL)
- Rich Rosy (Vice President and General Manager, Ingram Library Services)
- Frank Smith (Director, Books at JSTOR)
- Users, Patrons and Devices: In the Hands of Users
- Anne Taylor (Director of Access Technology, National Federation for the Blind)
- Steve Paxhia (Director, Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice, The Gilbane Group)
- Closing Keynote – Laura Dawson (Content Chief, Firebrand Technologies)
REGISTRATION
Early bird discounts apply through October 12, 2011. NISO members receive additional discounts. A student discount is also available. A complete agenda, registration, and hotel information are available on the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/ebooks/