E-Books & E-Journals
Monday and Tuesday, May 21-22, 2001
Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
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Conferences on E-Books & E-Journals |
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Monday and Tuesday, May 21-22, 2001 Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
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How can libraries use and manage e-books and e-journals in their collections? Users want and use them. How do we cope? Come hear the producers and librarians share their solutions and experiences.
Attend two days or a single day of your choice. Registration will begin each day at 8:30 a.m. with the program at 9:30 a.m. Each day will end at 4:00 p.m.
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| E-book Conference Notes | Pictures from the E-book Conference | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Robert Cunningham, Director of Educational Services, NELINET; Margo Crist, Director of Libraries, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 9:45 a.m. | The E-Book Industry and the Electronic Book Evaluation Project, Susan Gibbons, Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Rochester |
| 11:00 a.m. | Keynote Address: What's Today, What's Tomorrow, Rob Kaufman, President and CEO, netLibrary |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch in the Amherst Room, 10th Floor |
| 1:30 p.m. | E-Book Users Panel: Christina Bellinger, Catalog Librarian/Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire; Mary Ann List, Library Director, Amherst (NH) Town Library; Penny Schroeder, Technical Services Manager/Acquisitions Librarian, Bowdoin College |
| 2:45 p.m. | E-book Reader Vendors Panel: Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader, Tom Diaz, Senior Engineering Manager, eBook Development Group, Adobe Systems Incorporated; Palm Reader, Mike Seagroves, Director of Business Development, Palm Digital Media Group, Palm, Inc. |
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| 9:30 a.m. | Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Robert Cunningham, Director of Educational Services, NELINET |
| 9:45 a.m. | What If What We Know Isn't True: Selection, Collection Development, and Usage, David Kohl, Dean and University Librarian, University of Cincinnati |
| 10:45 a.m. | JSTOR: Present at the Creation, David Pilachowski, College Librarian, Williams College |
| 11:30 a.m. | Growing Pains: Key Issues in Licensing Electronic Resources, Ellen Duranceau, Digital Resources Acquisitions Librarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries |
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch in the Amherst Room, 10th Floor |
| 12:45 p.m. | Lunch Speaker: Coping with the Digital Tsunami, Richard Rowe, CEO and Chairman, RoweCom |
| 1:30 p.m. | Electronic Journal Locators, Rachel Cheng, Wesleyan University |
| 2:30 p.m. | What's Next for the Catalog: Access to Full Text Journals in Aggregations, Karen Calhoun, Director, Central Technical Services, Cornell University |
| 3:15 p.m. | Using Metadata to Access E-Journals, Matthew Beacom, Catalog Librarian for Networked Information Resources, Yale University |
| Program | Directions | Registration | Speakers | NELINET |
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