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Kara Kroes Li

EBSCO
Director of Product Management
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https://ebscohost.com/ebooks

As Director of Product Management for EBSCO, Kara is responsible for understanding the needs of end-users, librarians, and publishers and distilling those needs into product initiatives. Her current areas of focus are user experience, librarian workflows, and partnerships. Prior to EBSCO, Kara earned her MA in English Literature from the University of Colorado and worked for NetLibrary/OCLC.

10:00am EST

General History and Architecture Walking Tour Washington Park

11:30am EST

A Tale of Two Systems: Open Educational Resources and Affordable Learning Solutions Colonial Ballroom, Embassy SuitesDavid Hellman • Ron Leonard • Neil Sorensen • George Wrenn Accessibility & Publishing: Practices for equitable access and maximum impact Cypress Ballroom North, Courtyard MarriottSusan Doerr • Stephanie Rosen • Peter Alan Smith • Emma Waecker E-book is Not a Four-letter Word. (Or, how we reduced anxiety and increased liaison confidence in acquiring and engaging our users with e-books.) Grand Ballroom 2, Gaillard CenterJamie Hazlitt Preparing the Way for our Linked Data Future: Making MARC the Best it can Be Citadel Green Room North, Embassy SuitesRichard Belanger • Casey Cheney • Tiziana Possemato • Philip Schreur

1:00pm EST

Academic Libraries and Curriculum Collection Development Grand Ballroom 2, Gaillard CenterBeth Bernhardt • Robert Boissy • Michael Levine-Clark

2:30pm EST

Crawling to walking to sitting on clouds: The path to efficiency and happiness for Acquisitions Gold Ballroom, Francis Marion HotelAnn-Marie Breaux • Sarah Forzetting • James Gulvas From the Winter of Messy Data into the Spring of Standardization: eBook Vendor Data Re-envisioned Calhoun Room, Francis Marion HotelBrian Falato • Bonita Pollock How can digital course resource lists transform teaching and learning? Ashley Room, Courtyard MarriottMark Bush • Ian Snowley • Nick Woolley Red Light, Green Light: The Intersection of Libraries, Vendors, Apps and OER Citadel Green Room South, Embassy SuitesChrista Bailey • Adriana Poo Stopwatch Session Carolina Ballroom B, Francis Marion HotelTony Horava • Catherine Anderson • Sayeed Choudhury • Jennifer Culley • Sven Fund • Paul Gahn • Thomas Phillips • Alexandria Quesenberry

3:40pm EST

Open Access Books: The 2018 Progress Report. Carolina Ballroom A, Francis Marion HotelSven Fund Open Letter(s) on Open Access Ashley Room, Courtyard MarriottIngrid Becker • John G. Dove Supporting Open Education with the Wind at Your Back: Lessons for OER Programs from the Open Textbook Toolkit Citadel Green Room South, Embassy SuitesWill Cross • Erica Hayes • Mira Waller

4:40pm EST

Are Economic Pressures on University Press Acquisitions Quietly Changing the Shape of the Scholarly Record? Grand Ballroom 3, Gaillard CenterMeg White • Emily Farrell • Nicole Kendzejeski • Mahinder S. Kingra • Kizer Walker

5:45pm EST

03 Corralling Data for Collection Decisions Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion HotelSusan Finley • Latisha Reynolds 04 Data Analytics for Acquisitions Reports Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion HotelJeffrey Sowder 05 DDA Triggers: Are We Hitting Our Collection Targets or Our Vendors Sale Targets? Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion HotelDebbi Smith 22 Creating an ebook revolution through training Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion HotelSophie Rondeau 27 If you build it, will they come? Convincing faculty to utilize the campus repository Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion HotelJennifer L. Pate CANCELED: Launching and Scaling your Affordability Initiative - How it was successfully done with OER and Library Content at OhioLINK Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion HotelLauren Rose

10:30am EST

The Library's Opportunity in Affordable Textbooks Grand Ballroom 3, Gaillard CenterJoseph Esposito • Mark Cummings • Gwen Evans • Mark McBride

11:30am EST

Getting E-Books into Courses: How Libraries can Partner with Faculty to Ease the Textbook Affordability Crisis Grand Ballroom 3, Gaillard CenterDave Comeaux • Kara Kroes Li • Jeanne Pavy Strong Collections, Controlled Costs: Weathering the Winter Storm Through Collaboration and a Shared Acquisitions Program Calhoun Room, Francis Marion HotelKathleen Bauer • Fred Folmer • Lorraine Huddy • Aaron Sandoval

1:00pm EST

Digital Rights Management: A Long and Winding Road to DRM-free Ebooks in Academic Libraries Grand Ballroom 2, Gaillard CenterMirela Roncevic • Ben Ashcroft • Alison Bradley • Angela Dresselhaus • Kara Kroes Li • Kari Paulson • Dean Smith

2:30pm EST

Is the Future of Collection Management More Like a Fire Ant or an Accordion? Grand Ballroom 3, Gaillard CenterBoaz Nadav-Manes Straightforward and Secure: Subscription Access Matures – a Milestone Report-Out from RA21 Colonial Ballroom, Embassy SuitesAnn Gabriel • James King • Tim Lloyd • Ralph Youngen The Charlotte Initiative: a Review Carolina Ballroom B, Francis Marion HotelAlison Bradley • Elizabeth Siler

3:40pm EST

Textbooks are expensive but adopting OER can be challenging: two models for libraries to provide e-textbook access Grand Ballroom 1, Gaillard CenterBrian Boling • Karen Kohn • Russell Michalak • Monica Rysavy Walking the Critical Line between User Privacy and Leveraging Knowledge for Greater Library Impact: A Panel Discussion Cooper Room, Courtyard MarriottMichael Levine-Clark • Scott Macdonald • John McDonald Why should we care about metrics for OA books? Grand Ballroom 3, Gaillard CenterJohn Blosser • Ros Pyne • Erich van Rijn • Sara Rouhi

9:45am EST

Going it Alone: Why University Presses are Creating Their Own EBook Collections Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion HotelHeather Staines • Terry Ehling • Sharla Lair • Charles Watkinson

10:45am EST

Understanding Open Access Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion HotelKevin Hawkins • Brian O'Leary • Katherine Skinner • Charles Watkinson