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Subj: Clifford Lynch to speak - ALA Preconference on Ebooks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Davidson)
Tue May 8 20:13:53 2001
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 15:59:45 -0500
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Clifford Lynch will make a key note address at an ALA Preconference on
Ebooks on June 15th 2001 in San Francisco. Other speakers include Dennis
McNannay, Sandra K. Paul of SKP Associates, and Susan Gibbons of the Ebook
Evaluation Project in NY. Denise Troll, Associate University Librarian at
Carnegie Mellon will moderate the day's sessions.
This all-day preconference will provide understandable background in ebook
standards, businessness models and how these activities affect libraries
and what libraries need to provide ebook services to their clientele.
Attendees will leave with clear guidelines for evaluating potential ebook
services for their situations.
The full description of the preconference is at:
http://www.lita.org/ac2001/ebooks.htm
