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American Libraries Live Broadcasts!

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What is American Libraries Live?

American Libraries Live is a joint production of American Libraries and ALA Editions, units of the American Library Association. It is a free, streaming video broadcast about today’s library issues and trends. Each episode focuses on a specific issue affecting libraries and librarians, and features a panel of vendors and library industry experts engaged in a real-time discussion. By registering on-line, it allows viewers (you) the option to interact and ask questions with the hosts via a live chat format.  This publication provides another opportunity for CMLE members to stay connected at a significant cost savings (stretching dollars).

  • In April, Sue Polanka, will lead a panel discussion on, “The Present and Future of e-Books.”  This episode will air on Thursday, April 18th at 1pm Central time. You can register here!
  • If you were not able to view this month’s (March) broadcast about Library Safety & Security with Cathy Hakala-Ausperk and Brett Lear, click here for the recorded conversation now available on YouTube.

 

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ALA Video – E-books and Digital Content

 

ALAIn this American Library Association (ALA) video, you will hear a special message from ALA President, Maureen Sullivan. She  reinforces how libraries need to be at the forefront of issues around e-books and the digital frontier. She also mentions tools that are currently available and others that are in development. Lastly, she urges librarians to support self-publishing, and help our communities in their self publishing endeavors. Check out the e-content page on the ALA magazine site, where you will find the video too! Sullivan also mentions the availability of the ebook toolkit, which is available at http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/ebooktoolkit.

Coming soon….a scorecard of business models in the digital content arena!