From: Lloyd Davidson <Ldavids_at_northwestern.edu>
LITA Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals IG presents:
E-books & E-paper: New Approaches to Publishing
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sunday, July 9, 2000
McCormick Place Conference Center, Rm. N230B
(ALA Annual Meeting)
This session will review electronic book (e-book) standards
and services, current
and future e-book reader design and function and content
management and
delivery. It will also include a description and
demonstration of Gyricon e-paper, a
very futuristic electronic display material developed at
Xerox PARC that promises
to supply e-books that look and feel like paper books.
Speakers will include:
Clifford Lynch CNI
Alan Renear Open Ebook
Bruce Hunt Adobe Acrobat
Tom Morrow SoftBook Press
Nick Sheridon Xerox PARC (Gyricon)
Lynn Connaway netLibrary
Gail P. Clement (Moderator) FIU
More about this IG can be found at:
http://www.lita.org/igs/Epej/epej.htm
LITA EP/EJ Business Meeting and SoftBook Ebook Reader
drawing:
An Open Business Meeting of the Electronic
Publishing/Electronic Journals
Interest Group will meet from 8:30-9:30 a.m., Sunday, July
9, 8:30- 9:15 AM,
McCormick Place Conference Center, Rm. N230B Chicago, IL,
immediately
preceding the E-books & E-paper program.
This IG has been responsible for an excellent series of
programs over the last two
years on the topics of DOIs, XML, Digital Archiving and now
Ebooks & Epaper.
It badly needs members willing to participate in program
planning and topic
recommendations for future meetings. All persons interested
in helping to suggest
and plan future programs are encouraged to attend.
Note that SoftBook Press has generously donated a SoftBook
Ebook Reader,
worth $600, that will be given away at a drawing at the
close of the business
meeting. All business meeting attendees are eligible to
enter the drawing. Business
cards will be accepted for this prize between 8:30 and 9:00
AM.
For a description of this reader, see:
http://www.softbook.com/reader/
Received on Thu Jul 06 2000 - 06:04:13 EDT