Conference Session 182

What does the e-library mean for the public library users?

Public Libraries

Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.

15 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 3

• Ebooks: has a content divide replaced the digital divide?
  Keynote speaker: PATRICK LOSINSKI (Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
• A new mobile approach: peer-to-peer loaning using smartphones
  HEINI OIKKONEN and TIMO TUOMINEN (Helsinki City Library, Helsinki, Finland)
• Danish Digital Library powered by "TING" - about Open Source and joined efforts in public libraries
  ROLF HAPEL (Citizens' Services and Libraries, Aarhus Kommune, Aarhus, Denmark)
• The library as an online community touch-point
  ELAINE NG (National Library Board Singapore, Singapore)