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Monday, October 26, 2015
E104 - Framing the Ebook Challenge in School Settings
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.Bonsai (Portola Hotel)
The upcoming years will pose extreme challenges for school librarians managing digital resources. āEā is not going to replace āP,ā and we are in a very long period of hybrid format strategies in our libraries, challenged by a plethora of vendor and publisher licenses, pricing models,and technology landscapes, plus varying degrees of student/faculty readiness. Stephen, drawing on his background in print and e-publishing, vendor-land and librarianship, will frame the challenges and present the strategies that are most likely to progress in the near term and make an educated guess as to what will the future holds.