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ALA 2012 Virtual Conference, Mapping Transformation, July 18 & 19, 2012
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Mapping Transformation---sharing dynamic experiments
Virtual Conference SpeakersDon't miss next week's two days of
interactive Web sessions, conversations, and insights from experts,
highlighting how new services are transforming both libraries and
communities. Sessions offer starting points for discussion as well as
practical ideas for moving forward and trying something new.
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(individual and group rates available) for innovation and inspiration!
* George Needham & Joan Frye Williams---Libraries In a Post-Print world
* Stephen Abram---Mirages, Maps, Menus, Flowcharts, and Dreams
* Marie Østergård---Mediaspace: Transforming the Library of the Future
* Lee Rainie---The State of eBook Borrowing from Libraries
* Brian Mathews---Thinking Entrepreneurially: What Libraries Can Learn
from Startups and Other Innovative Organizations
* James LaRue---Moving Upstream: From Distributor to Co-Creator
* Marlene Harris---Beyond the Bestseller List: Filling Patron Demand
for Great eBooks Without the "Big 6 Publishers"
* Peter Murray---Introducing FOSS4Lib: Helping Libraries Decide IF and
WHICH Open Source Software Is Right for Them
* Terry Ballard---Using Google Products to Enhance Your Library's
Mission and Branding
* Emily Dowdall---One-Stop Center: The Multiple Roles of the Public
Library, Today and Tomorrow
* Steven Bell---Start With a "Way We Serve Statement:" Design a
Library User Experience the Way the Pros Do
* Sacramento Public Library---I Street Press Project
* Allen County Public Library---Making Our Future: The ACPL-TekVenture
Maker Station Community Collaboration
Booklist editors will again host their popular 30-minute author lunches.
Brad Hooper talks on Wednesday with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
and New Yorker staff writer Katherine Boo, whose acclaimed new book is
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai
Undercity. On Thursday, Donna Seaman interviews Christian Kiefer, an
active poet, songwriter, and recording artist whose recent first novel,
The Infinite Tides, was described in a Publisher's Weekly review as an
"astute, impressive, and ambitious debut."
Added benefit! The archive of ALA Virtual Conference is available free
to registrants for up to six months, and also free after the event to
all full registrants of ALA Annual Conference.
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$69 for Individuals
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$300 for Groups, up to 15 IP addresses
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