January 30, 2008
Registration Open for Annual ILL Conference
Registration is now open for the 39th Annual Interlibrary Loan Conference, "All Aboard the Wagon Train: Innovations in Resource Sharing," scheduled for May 1-2, 2008, at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel in Lakewood, Colorado.
The schedule of speakers and events includes:
- Keynote speaker, Brewster Kahle, U.S. Internet entrepreneur, activist and digital librarian, who will be discussing Internet Archive and the Open Content Alliance.
- Welcome remarks from Bill Knott, County Librarian, Jefferson County Public Library.
- Researcher and library consultant, Pat Wagner, of Pattern Research, Inc.
- George Burke from BookSwim, the online book rental library club that lends paperback and hardcover books directly to your house without the need to purchase them.
Several conference programs are already scheduled — Copyright Basics 101 and Rethinking Resource Sharing (OCLC). In addition, BCR Executive Director, Brenda Bailey-Hainer, and Heather Clark, BCR member services librarian, will report on the "State of Loans in the Lone Star State," a review of a recently completed Texas ILL study.
Registration for the two-day event is affordable at only $85. Conference details, scholarship opportunities and hotel information are available on the conference Web site.
