[nfais-l] NISO Forum: The E-Book Renaissance

[Jill O'Neill]

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/

 

 

 

 

Jill O'Neill

Director, Planning & Communication

NFAIS

(v) 215-893-1561

(email) jilloneill at nfais.org

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/pipermail/nfais-l/attachments/20110923/93f13ab6/attachment.html>