<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hello All!</span><br></p><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The 11th annual Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference starts <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">in 12 days</span></span> and I invite you to join us online. </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ER&L is recording ALL sessions</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> again this year and other than the nice weather, music, and bbq, you can experience all that is happening in Austin from your home or office. </span><a href="https://www.electroniclibrarian.org/conference-info/2016-registration/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Register Now</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">!</span></p><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Two channels of live streaming content to choose from every day of ER&L. View the whole schedule</span><a href="http://erl2016.sched.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> http://erl2016.sched.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> and see the many many session options in the online conference, 70+ hours of peer-reviewed, community-voted content. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Here are a few ER&L highlights:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Discovery</span></p><ul style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">How Users Conduct Research Using Discovery Systems: Results of a Usability Study--Kelsey Brett, University of Houston</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Apps in the World of Libraries and Discovery: A New Frontier--Dr. Jason Martin, Stetson University, Andrea Leondard, Appalachian State University, Eric L. Frierson, EBSCO Information Services</span></p></li></ul><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">eBooks</span></p><ul style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Reimagining Scholarly E-book Assessment: A Study of Discovery, Access, and Use--Melissa Goertzen and Nisa Bakkalbasi, Columbia University</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Assessing the User Experience of E-Books in Academic Libraries: Search, Usage, and Information Finding--Tao Zhang, PhD, Purdue University, Xi Niu, PhD, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Marlen Promann, Purdue University</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The True Cost of the e-Resource Lifecycle: A Case Study of e-Book Frontlist Purchases--Amanda Bielskas, Colleen Major, and Melissa Goertzen, Columbia University Libraries</span></p></li></ul><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Data</span></p><ul style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Data Visualization: Transforming Research Support--Wenli Gao, Loretta Wallace, and Joshua Been, University of Houston</span></p></li></ul><ul style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Insights through Visualization: Analyzing the Use of Library-Published Content--Andrea Cato, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Patron Privacy in the Digital Age: Support from Many Data Handlers Required!--Todd Carpenter and Nettie Lagace, NISO</span></p></li></ul><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">*Keynotes Streaming Free!*</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dr. Dawna Ballard 's opening keynote is entitled, “</span><a href="http://sched.co/5ZPJ" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Finding Time:  From Industrial Mythology to Chronemic Literacy</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">” on April 3, 2015 at 8:45am Central/9:45am Eastern </span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dr. S. Craig Watkins closing keynote is entitled, "</span><a href="http://sched.co/5ZPL" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Doing Media: Learning Futures in a World of Change</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">" on <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">April 6th at 11:00am</span></span> Central /12noon Eastern. The links for these events will be front and center on our website as well as added to those linked entries on our online program.</span><br></li></ul><p style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></p><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hope you can make it!</span></p><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Thanks,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Bonnie</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ER&L Conference Coordinator/ Founder</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Data & Society</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="mailto:bonnie.tijerina@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">bonnie.tijerina@gmail.com</span></a></p><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">p.s. If you’re already attending ER&L in Austin, check out a </span><a href="https://www.electroniclibrarian.org/erl-attendees-were-less-than-2-weeks-out/" target="_blank" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">note from me</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> on the upcoming conference.</span><br></div>