Potentially interesting. *Not* run by archive.org; the organizer was just spamming the archivists list. Perhaps someone free can attend and report back?

SJ

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samuel Klein sjklein@hcs.harvard.edu Date: Jul 26, 2005 12:51 PM Subject: [archivists] Announcement: Online Conference about eBooks and Digital Audiobooks (fwd) To: 2.718281828@gmail.com

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:43:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Peters tapinformation@yahoo.com To: archivists@yahoogroups.com, archivists-talk@yahoogroups.com Subject: [archivists] Announcement: Online Conference about eBooks and Digital Audiobooks

This announcement is being sent to several lists, with apologies extended to those who receive multiple copies.

You are invited to attend an online conference about books, ebooks, and digital audiobooks to be held on Thursday, July 28, 2005 (early Friday morning in Australasia). There is no cost to register, and there is no registration deadline. Already over 185 librarians, information technologists, ebook and digital audiobook users, publishers, and others from across the U.S. and around the world have registered to attend this innovative online conference.

To participate all you need is an Internet-connected computer running a Microsoft Windows operating system (Windows 98 or later), Mac OS X, or Linux. If in addition to text-chatting you wish to communicate via voice-over-IP, you need to have a microphone connected to--or embedded in--your computer.

The homepage for the conference website is:

http://www.planetlibrary.info/lgleindex.htm

The direct link to the conference registration page is:

http://www.planetlibrary.info/tinc?key=opjmI0gx&formname=LGLEregister200...

If you want to test your connection prior to the day of the online conference, here is the link to one of the online conference rooms:

http://67.19.231.218/v4/login.asp?r=7c4d784b&p=0

Access to this room is available 24/7 from now until the conclusion of the conference. Please note: The first time you enter one of these online meeting rooms, the operating system you are using may ask for your permission to download and automatically install a small, safe software plug-in.

In addition to vendor exhibits and opportunities for informal networking, this conference will feature the following outstanding 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.

This online conference is part of Let's Go Library Expo, a planned series of online conferences on timely topics related to librarianship and information technology. Please watch for announcements of future conferences in this series.

It is being organized by:

Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center

North Suburban Library System near Chicago

Alliance Library System in Central Illinois

TAP Information Services near Kansas City

The conference is sponsored by:

OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), a leading digital book and digital audiobook vendor for libraries and retailers.

For more information please visit the conference website (http://www.planetlibrary.info/lgleindex.htm) or contact Tom Peters from TAP Information Services (tpeters@tapinformation.com). Thank you!

Tom Peters

TAP Information Services 1000 SW 23rd Street Blue Springs, MO 64015 phone: 816-228-6406 email: tapinformation@yahoo.com web: www.tapinformation.com

TAP Information Services provides a wide variety of high quality planning, consulting, research, and assessment services supporting libraries, library consortia, government agencies, professional associations, and other information-intensive organizations.

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