eBook Symposium

Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 in Champaign

Time: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Place: White Oaks Room, Hawthorn Suites, 101 Trade Centre Drive, Champaign, IL 6182 phone: (217-398-3400)
Directions: The Hawthorn Suites Hotel is across the parking lot from the CARLI office. Here’s directions to the CARLI office [just walk in their building at 101 Trade Centre Drive rather than ours]: http://www.carli.illinois.edu/about/about-office/about-officedirs.html

This day-long program will provide an overview of the industry from not only a publisher’s point of view but also from the users’ perspective. During lunch the university press perspective will be addressed from a representative from the University of Illinois Press. Your colleagues from other CARLI institutions will be presenting information during the afternoon panels on marketing and creative uses of eBooks, as well as technical services and collection development issues. The day will end with a vendor panel.

Intended audience: Members of the staffs of CARLI member libraries. Librarians and staff who are using eBooks at their institutions and those that plan to begin purchasing eBooks for their collections.
If you have any questions about this program, please contact the CARLI Office at support@carli.illinois.edu.

Registration: Required. Open now until symposium is full to any CARLI library staff on a first come-first served basis. Space is limited to 110 participants. A waitlist will be established. The registration deadline is February 27.

Fees:
This program is free to individuals from CARLI member institutions.

Individuals from non-CARLI institutions are allowed to attend but will have to pay a $50 registration fee. Individuals from non-CARLI institutions will be contacted for an address to be invoiced and registration fees must be paid before the registration deadline.

Refunds will be issued to non-CARLI members only for cancellations received prior to the registration deadline.

All travel costs and any parking/hotel fees are the responsibility of the attendee.

Tentative Agenda

9:00 - 9:30	Registration, Coffee, Pastries
9:30 – 9:45	Welcome, Schedule for the Day
9:45 – 10:25	Wendy Shelburne, Electronic Resources Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration, the University of Illinois
10:25 – 10:35	Break
10:35 – 11:15	Syed Hasan, Director, Licensing and Sales in the Americas, Springer
11:15 – 12:30	Lunch University of Chicago Press
12:30 – 1:15	Panel: Marketing and Mobile Technology
1:15 – 1:30	Break
1:30 – 2:20	Panel: Technical Services and Collection Development Issues for eBooks
2:20 – 2:30	Break
2:30 – 3:30	Vendor Panel

Please direct any questions about the workshop to support@ carli.illinois.edu

Registration required. The registration deadline is February 27.

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