<div dir="ltr">FYI,<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Wood</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:00 AM<br>Subject: [alacro-l] The Present and Future of E-books<br>To: <a href="mailto:alacro-l@ala.org">alacro-l@ala.org</a><br><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div align="center">
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#c62429">The Present and Future of E-books<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p align="center" style="margin:7.5pt;text-align:center">
<span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">This Thursday, March 13, 2014</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><br>
2:00pm Eastern | 1:00pm Central | 12:00pm Mountain | 11:00am Pacific<u></u><u></u></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt"><p><u></u><img width="90" height="115" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CF3C4F.EC9C8F80" align="right" alt="Sue Polanka"><u></u><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Sue Polanka, e-book expert and co-editor of the new journal <a href="http://www.alatechsource.org/ecq" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">eContent Quarterly</span></em></a>, leads <a href="http://goo.gl/DXFksX" target="_blank">The Present and Future of E-books</a>, a free interactive discussion featuring an all-star panel. This episode is an immediate and effective way to get to the heart of the real issues surrounding e-books in libraries. </span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">This episode is co-sponsored by <a href="http://www.recordedbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=rb.ocd" target="_blank">OneClickdigital</a> and <a href="http://www.totalboox.com/libraries?utm_source=americanlibrarieslive&utm_medium=banner" target="_blank">Total BooX</a>, and joining Polanka and the audience for the 60-minute discussion will be: </span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Jamie LaRue, former director of Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Troy Juliar, vice president of Content/Acquisition, Recorded Books<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Jeff Metz, product manager, OneClickdigital<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Yoav Lorch, founder and CEO, Total BooX<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Don't miss this episode! You can pre-register <a href="http://goo.gl/DXFksX" target="_blank">here</a> or go to <a href="http://www.americanlibrarieslive.org" target="_blank">americanlibrarieslive.org</a> this Thursday, March 13 at 2pm EST to view (pre-registration is not required).</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://goo.gl/DXFksX" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#c62429;text-decoration:none">REGISTER TODAY!</span></strong></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></b><a href="http://www.recordedbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=rb.ocd" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="70" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CF3C4F.EC9C8F80" alt="One Click Digital"></span></a><br>
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<p><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.recordedbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=rb.ocd" target="_blank">OneClickdigital</a>, from Recorded Books, is an easy-to-use website and platform for e-books and eAudio, providing one-click download and transfer to portable devices. Click to <a href="http://www.recordedbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=rb.ocd" target="_blank">learn more</a>.</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.totalboox.com/libraries?utm_source=americanlibrarieslive&utm_medium=banner" target="_blank">Total BooX</a> is an e-book service that gives library patrons a new digital reading experience, while making library budgets go further. Click to <a href="http://www.totalboox.com/libraries?utm_source=americanlibrarieslive&utm_medium=banner" target="_blank">learn more</a>.</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
</td><td style="border:none;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Don Wood<br>
Program Officer<br><a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/cro/index.cfm" target="_blank">Chapter Relations Office</a><br>American Library Association<br>50 East Huron Street<br>Chicago, IL 60611<br><a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org" target="_blank">dwood@ala.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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