Monique Mongeon (BookNet Canada) shows a first glimpse of our circulation data aggregation tool, BNC LibraryData, as well as reports in action.
2019
Elizabeth Barker (BookNet Canada) shares the 2018 highlights of the Loan Stars readers’ advisory program, from welcoming hundreds of new library staff from across Canada to launching Loan Stars Jr.
Nellie McKesson (Hederis) explains the problems that publishers are facing, and how web-based pagination can offer a solution.
Christian Roy (Brix Labs) gives an insight about the findings of Projet TAMIS, a project launched by Éditions du Septentrion in collaboration with Brix Labs to address discoverability challenges.
Jessica Albert (ECW Press) and Brendan Ouellette (Annick Press) discuss the many options available to large and small publishers when creating an audiobook program from the ground up.
Learn how to fix your backlist bestsellers, to shine them up to a newer EPUB specification and ready for the diverse needs of a broad spectrum of readers.
A hands-on workshop where participants take on a few of the perennial challenges unique to digital publishing.
This presentation introduces everyone to the process of creating something where there wasn’t something before, and demoing what has been done so far for the audiobook spec.
From the definition of accessibility requirements, to the actual production, to testing and metadata editing, accessibility needs to be taken into account through the entire production workflow.
This workshop includes hands-on training in assembling audiobooks from sample audio, QAing tablemates’ audio, and understanding required metadata.
How do we shift from “gatekeeping” towards “spacemaking”: a process that solicits, supports, and develops the work of marginalized writers and professionals?
eBOUND Canada conducted a study using a sample of ebooks from Canadian publishers to gauge the efficacy of adding audience-driven keywords to the metadata. These are the results.