Sunday, March 7 2004
The day-long E-books in the Public Library Conference in New York City March 16 will explore how e-books are being used in libraries today and how books in electronic formats such as PDF might be the answer to the budgetary crunches many book-lending institutions find themselves in today.
Daniel L. Walters, the executive director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, will preside over the sessions, which include panel presentations on:
The aforementioned budget crisis;
New sources for e-book content for libraries;
A technology update on library solutions for digital media;
Cataloging and managing digital content in the public library;
Who's hot and who's not in the e-book market;
Copyright, fair use and Patriot Act issues relating to e-books.
"Millions of readers have free access to best-selling, popular book titles from the comfort of their homes and offices, courtesy of eBooks available from their public library Web site," said Nick Bogaty, executive director of the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), a consortium of e-book industry players that includes Adobe, Microsoft and Palm. OeBF is organizing the event.
"The E-books in the Public Library Conference brings together experts from all over the nation to explore how this phenomenon will be utilized to enhance the mission public libraries share," he said.
