Ebooks at ALA Midwinter 2017

Meetings & Presentations

*All times in Eastern Standard Time

Friday, January 20

• Meeting: SimplyE for Consortia Advisory Group
  • Time: 9:00am - 10:30am
  • Location: GWCC Room B216
• Meeting: Open content discussion (OPEN)
  • Time: 10:30-12:00
  • Location: GWCC Room B216
  • Description: Unstructured discussion for people working on open access collections
• Meeting: ASCLA Consortial Interest Ebook Group
  • Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm
  • Location: GWCC Room B216

Saturday, January 21

• Meeting: LEAP Partners
  • Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
  • Location: Atlanta-Fulton Central Library

Sunday, January 22

• Presentation: Charting Libraries’ Digital Futures: A Conversation with New York Public Library’s Anthony W. Marx

  • Participants: Anthony Marx, NYPL

  • Time: 10:00am - 11:00am

  • Location: GWCC A411/A412b

• Presentation: "Bridging the Digital Divide with Open eBooks"
  • Participants: Michelle Bickert, DPLA; James English, NYPL; Baker & Taylor; Clever
  • Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
  • Location: TBD
• Panel: Collude! Resist! Collaborate! Ebook Strategies for the Modern Revolutionary
  • Participants: Veronda Pitchford, RAILS; Paula MacKinnon, Califa; Steve Spohn, MLS, Mitchell Davis, BiblioLabs
  • Time: 1:30pm - 2:30pm
  • Location: TBD