[Asis-l] Ebooks Webinars - 10% Discounted Rate Available.

[Jill O'Neill]

FORTHCOMING NFAIS WEBINARS: ONE ON E-BOOKS AND A SECOND ON PORTABLE DEVICES
AND MOBILE USERS.  REGISTER FOR BOTH AND GET A 10% DISCOUNT!


MARCH 23: e-Books and the Future of University Presses: Key Findings from a
Three-Year Study

e-Books are a major focus as academic libraries reshape their content and
service models to more effectively and efficiently serve their users at the
point of information need.  This is an area of rapid development across the
entire publishing industry - with activity to standardize file formats, a
proliferation of dedicated devices, and the transformation of purchasing and
copyright practices originally developed for print books.  For libraries,
there are associated issues in terms of both constrained purchasing budgets
and the expanding popularity of patron-driven selection. And all content
providers, especially publishers in a university press environment, also
face the same challenges.  

NFAIS has scheduled a webinar for March 23, 2011 from 1:00pm - 2:30PM EDST,
to address key findings from a three-year study funded by the Mellon
Foundation to see how e-books can be integrated into production and
distribution to demonstrate their ongoing value in academic research. These
findings include, among others, strategic vision, academic library budget
developments, research about library e-Book adoption, patron-driven
selection, current trends, new and evolving standards, academic publishing
in trends, technology-driven efficiencies, determining core-competencies,
and new business models. (Speakers are October Ivins, Principal, Ivins
eContent Solutions, and Alex Holzman, Director, Temple University Press). To
register for the March 23rd webinar go to:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/323-e-books-march-23-2011-webinar.

MAY 3: Portable Devices and Mobile Users: A New Era for Information Delivery
and Access 

NFAIS will hold a 90-minute informational Webinar, Portable Devices and
Mobile Users, on May 3, 2011 at 1:00pm EDST.  Maureen Kelly, Principal,
Content Kinetics, will open the meeting with a brief history of book
technology.  Jill O' Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning,
will then discuss the reading experience, including an overview of today's
established user interfaces and navigational approaches and how users can
customize their own experience. The meeting will then take a look at the
development of e-reader technology, from first to third generation and
beyond, current content delivery channels, and the markets for e-readers and
e-publications. And in closing, the meeting will focus on why all
information providers need to pay attention to the development of portable
reading devices so that they can re-shape their content to offer an
enjoyable and satisfying user experience - on any platform, anywhere! To
register for the May 3rd webinar go to:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/309-portable-devices-and-mobile-users.

Registration fees for each webinar are as follows: NFAIS members pay $75,
Sister Society members pay $85, and non-members pay $95.  An unlimited
number of staff from an NFAIS member organization can participate for a
group fee of $225. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from a
Sister Society is $255, and from any non-member organization is $285.

REGISTER FOR BOTH AT THE SAME TIME AND RECEIVE A 10% DISCOUNT OFF YOUR TOTAL
FEE.

For more information contact:  Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication
and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax);
mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org.


NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community

Jill O'Neill
Director, Planning & Communication
NFAIS
(v) 215-893-1561
(email) jilloneill at nfais.org