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Please join us on Thursday, May 9th for an exciting new episode of American Libraries Live—Library Learning Goes Online.

Online learning is changing the way schools work. From elementary to graduate school to continuing education, online tools are creating new horizons in distance learning and new tools to supplement in-person learning. But what does this mean for libraries? How can we enhance traditional library instruction with online tools? How do we create standards in the face of technology that is constantly changing?

Also, as requested, Jamie's image of a digital wall:

We are very excited about our upcoming episode The Present and Future of E-Books, which is going to take place next Thursday, April 18th at 2pm Eastern. I had a chance to talk briefly with our moderator Sue Polanka and panelist Jamie LaRue about what they plan on discussing.

Please join us on Thursday, April 18th for the newest episode of American Libraries Live, The Present and Future of Ebooks. Sue Polanka—author, librarian, Ebook expert and creator of the award-winning blog No Shelf Required will lead an interactive discussion on what ebooks and their exploding popularity mean for libraries and librarians everywhere.

Sue will be joined by an expert panel including:

We apologize for the technical problems with Google Hangouts that suspended last week’s episode of American Libraries Live. We have recorded a conversation on Library Security with Cathy Hakala-Ausperk and Brett Lear that is now available on our website. You can view the video below.

While we were not able to re-schedule a live episode, we were sure to include as many audience questions from our original live broadcast as we possibly could.

With this week's episode Mobile Services: The Library in Your Pocket fast approaching, we figured we'd give you a preview via a behind-the-scenes look at how we prepare for an episode.

Before every episode, we assemble our panel for a "practice hangout" where we set some basic parameters for the episode's discussion. As you can see from the video below, our panelists are so eager to go that we had to suspend this discussion so they could save their views for the real thing!

We're very excited about the next episode of American Libraries Live, Mobile Services: The Library in Your Pocket, which will take place on Thursday, February 14th at 2pm Eastern.

Jason Griffey will return to run another engaging, fantastic interactive discussion with another great panel. Jason will be joined next week by Maurice Coleman and Robin Hastings. In case you don't already know Maurice and Robin, a bit about them: