Conferences, meetings and webinars from SEFLIN, ALCTS; Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians and Digital Shift
Register Now for SEFLIN’s Virtual Conference: eBooks: Benefits, Challenges, and the Future
September 21, 2012 10:00am – 4:00pm (Eastern Time, US and Canada)
Find out more and register at: http://goo.gl/ce2ZD. Seats are limited, so register now!
Produced by SEFLIN (Southeast Florida Library Information Network), this is a one-day online conference highlighting the impact of eBooks on libraries.
Presenters include:
- Stephen Abram (Gale-Cengage Learning)
- Chad Mairn (Novare Library Services)
- Nik Osborne, J.D. (Indiana University)
- Jamie LaRue (Douglas County Libraries, Colorado)
- Sue Polanka (Wright State University Libraries)
These leading experts will discuss eBook trends, self-publishing and digital textbooks, barriers to and models for eBook lending, helpful eReader tips and tricks for library staff, and the future of eBooks in libraries.
When:
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
1:00pm to 2:30pm, US/Central (-6)
1:00pm to 2:30pm, US/Central (-6)
ALCTS webinar: Universal Access to All Knowledge [note this webinar is 90 minutes]
Date: September 5, 2012
This webinar will be 90 minutes in length and will begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.
Description: Advances in computing and communications mean that we can cost-effectively store every book, sound recording, movie, software package, and public web page ever created, and provide access to these collections via the Internet to students and adults all over the world.
By mostly using existing institutions and funding sources, we can build this as well as compensate authors within the current worldwide library budget.
As these digital libraries take shape there are new opportunities for computer scientists. Can we make a distributed web of books that supports vending and lending? How can our machines learn by reading these materials? Can we reconfigure the information to make interactive question answering machines? Can we learn from the past human translations of documents to seed an automatic version? Similarly, can we learn how to do optical character recognition by having billions of correct examples? What compensation systems will serve creators and networked users? How do we preserve petabytes of changing data?
This talk will give an overview of the collections and challenges now facing those of us building digital libraries, and end with a list of projects that might now be possible because of these collections.
Presenter: Brewster Kahle studied artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Registration Fees: $39 ALCTS Member; $49 Non-member; $39 International; $99 Group (a group of people that will watch it together).
For additional information and access to registration links, please go to the following website:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/09052012
- The Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians: “Social Entrepreneurship in Action”and a Call for
proposals
The third “Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians” will take place on the campus of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro on May 16-17, 2013. This year’s conference focus will be on social entrepreneurship in libraries. The Conference planners are pleased to announce our keynoters and lunchtime speaker.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Brian Matthews (The Ubiquitous Librarian)
- Michael Porter (Library Renewal)
- Mandy Henk, of The People’s Library from Occupy Wall Street
Conference planners are also active asking for proposals.
“We seek presentations from librarians and information professionals about projects that have transformed library services or have provided solutions to social problems. The successful presentation could include:
- An innovative approach that used social entrepreneurship to fill an unmet need or promoted change
- A description of how a solution was designed and implemented
- A discussion of lessons learned and what could have been done differently
- A description of the keys to a successful project
- A tone that inspires social entrepreneurship, no matter how small the project…
Formats:
Presentations may be made in one of two formats:
- One-hour break-out sessions with 45 minutes for presenting and 15 minutes for Q&A. These may be panels or single presenters. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words.
- Five minute “lightning rounds” with time for Q&A after all have presented. Only a microphone will be provided so be prepared without visual aids! Proposals should include a description of 25-50 words.
Submission Deadline:
Proposals will be accepted until November 1, 2012. Please submit your proposal online.
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012; 10:00 am-5:00 pm EDT
Library Journal and School Library Journal invite you to join us for our 3rd annual Ebook Summit, exploring how libraries are navigating the transition from print to digital and integrating “e” into collections, catalogs and classrooms.
The Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond brings together many of the foremost practitioners in ebooks and libraries to examine the current state of the digital library.
With a full day of programming, including tracks designed specifically for public, academic and school libraries, professionals from administrative to administrators will find a wealth of new information, innovative ideas and best practices to put to use in their own libraries.
The Program will feature:
Featuring Keynote Speakers:
- Cory Doctorow, Author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Little Brother, and the co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing. His third YA novel, Pirate Cinema, will be published in October.
- Andrew Blum, Author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, and contributor to numerous publications including Wired, the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Popular Science.
(Click here to view all Speakers)
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