SEFLIN Regional Conference 2009

New Technologies: Libraries & Beyond Conference
July 30, 2009
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

More than 250 library staff members have registered for the the 2009 SEFLIN Regional Conference: New Technologies: Libraries & Beyond. The Conference will be held on July 30, 2009, at the Kovens Conference Center on the Florida International University Biscayne Bay Campus. Registration is closed. The conference has reached seating capacity.The keynote speaker will be Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Vanderbilt University Libraries. Conference sessions will cover a wide range of topics including library automation after Web 2.0, using mobile devices to support library services, and social media literacy.Conference information is available at the New Technologies: Libraries & Beyond.

From the SEFLIN Conference program

A ROSE IS A ROSE... A BOOK IS A BOOK
Presenters for Kindle Project

Brian Kelley, Estaline Rogers & Colleen Shaffer

Palm Beach Community College

Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform developed by Amazon.com for reading e-books and other digital media. Voltaire said, “The instruction we find in books is like fire.
We fetch it from our neighbors, communicate it to others, and kindle it at home.” Palm Beach Community College launched its Kindle Project in January 2009. Currently PBCC has more Kindles available for checkout than any academic library in the country. Learn the what, where, why and how of this new electronic book checkout project.