Eli neiburger biography

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Eli Neiburger.
Eli Neiburger is the Associate Director for IT & Production at the Ann Arbor District Library where he is responsible for IT, software development, marketing.

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2024 Keynote Speakers Nominations

Keynote nominations are now closed. Voting will open soon.

Dawna Ballard

Dawna I. Ballard (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) is associate professor of organizational communication and technology in the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. An expert in chronemics—i.e., the study of time as it is bound to human communication—she researches what drives our pace of life and its impact on the communication practices and long-term vitality of organizations, communities, and individuals. Dr. Ballard is currently completing a book, Time by Design (under contract at MIT Press), about how effective organizations routinely communicate slow to go fast.

She delivered a keynote at Electronic Resources & Libraries in 2016. She talked about “her work and the search for work/ life balance.” She seems to be focusing on communication among group members, which I think is pertinent to all practitioners in our field and I wonder if she has anything to say about how researchers think about time when organizing

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Digital Book World: E-Books and Libraries? No Problem, Panel Says

E-book lending has been a thorny issue for libraries, but a panel at Digital Book World yesterday moderated by Library Journal’s Josh Hadro suggested perhaps there really wasn’t much of an issue. Despite Hadro’s introduction, which quoted a recent feasibility study about e-books in which librarians’ expressed deep anxieties, and a recent talk from Ann Arbor, MI, librarian Eli Neiburger entitled "Libraries are Screwed,” the panel was decidedly upbeat. Publishers love libraries, the one-book/one lend model works great, and the potential for growth is enormous. But all agreed that the conversation the panel kicked off needs to continue.

So what is the current state of e-books in libraries? New York Public Library's Christopher Platt noted what librarians at the recent ALA Midwinter noted, that e-reading is surging in popularity and demand in libraries is on the rise. NYPL had a record-breaking 36,000 e-book checkouts in December, but that number still