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Here are some of the photos from the set up for tonight's evening event. Sorry I did not get a shot of the red and blue teams or the elusive stealth Green team....

As e-books become more accepted, how can they be integrated into library workflows? What are the 3 main drivers of demand-driven acquisition? Physical library collections used to guarantee quality and deliver access to quality books, but now users...

In the second session of the e-book track, David Bowers, VP, Business Development, Oxford University Press (OUP), and Steve Abram, VP, Gale Cengage Learning, represented the viewpoints of the publishers.   Bowers said that everybody is trying...

It is no secret that book formats and technologies are going through a period of major change. This was the first session of a 2 day-long track on the e-book evolution and revolution and was an overview of the key issues and challenges for...

Lee Rainie presented some data from the Pew Internet project on libraries and learning communities in a digital world....

View live streams of IL keynotes and other sessions...

Authors of books published by ITI signed their books, The crab cake station was popular. High quality giveaways were available. A significant sign of the times: a catalog just for e-books....

5 years ago, 90% of the browser market share was owned by Internet Explorer; now 4 different browsers make up the 90%. We have gone from monopoly to complexity. This session reviewed current changes with the major browsers....

Many tools are coming online that still need work and are in beta test. Even though they may not be ready for prime time but are still worthy of attention. ...

Tips for turning information into insights and delivering it effectively to your customers....

A panel of 3 CEOs from Bibliocommons, ChiliFresh, and LibraryThing described how they are working with libraries to offer innovative new services to help users decide what to read....

Analyzing traffic to your website can provide very useful data. Using Google Analytics, we can go far beyond simple hit counts, answering questions such as how users get to a page, which pages are not being viewed, etc. ...

John Seely Brown gave a fascinating keynote address on entrepreneurial learning and how learning is changing in a world of constant change....

The Internet@Schools track opened with a presentation on advocacy called Changing the Story: The California Campaign for Strong School Libraries....

People were playing board games and sharing their tablets and other devices to discover new and interesting technology....

The ballroom was filled; the audience's rapt attention struggling to keep up with the fantastic content and ideas of the low key but dynamic JSB. The #IL2011 Twitter stream went crazy with sound bites and praise....