ALA 2012 Virtual Conference: Managing Transformation

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• George Needham & Joan Frye Williams—Libraries In a Post-Print world
• Stephen Abram—Mirages, Maps, Menus, Flowcharts, and Dreams
• Marie Østergård—Mediaspace: Transforming the Library of the Future
• Lee Rainie—The State of eBook Borrowing from Libraries
• Brian Mathews—Thinking Entrepreneurially: What Libraries Can Learn from Startups and Other Innovative Organizations
• James LaRue—Moving Upstream: From Distributor to Co-Creator
• Marlene Harris—Beyond the Bestseller List: Filling Patron Demand for Great eBooks Without the “Big 6 Publishers”
• Peter Murray—Introducing FOSS4Lib: Helping Libraries Decide IF and WHICH Open Source Software Is Right for Them
• Terry Ballard—Using Google Products to Enhance Your Library’s Mission and Branding
• Emily Dowdall—One-Stop Center: The Multiple Roles of the Public Library, Today and Tomorrow
• Steven Bell—Start With a “Way We Serve Statement:” Design a Library User Experience the Way the Pros Do
• Sacramento Public Library—I Street Press Project
• Allen County Public Library—Making Our Future: The ACPL-TekVenture Maker Station Community Collaboration

Booklist editors will again host their popular 30-minute author lunches. Brad Hooper talks on Wednesday with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Katherine Boo, whose acclaimed new book is Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. On Thursday, Donna Seaman interviews Christian Kiefer, an active poet, songwriter, and recording artist whose recent first novel, The Infinite Tides, was described in a Publisher’s Weekly review as an “astute, impressive, and ambitious debut.”

Added benefit! The archive of ALA Virtual Conference is available free to registrants for up to six months, and also free after the event to all full registrants of ALA Annual Conference.

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