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Our next episode of AL Live will provide attendees with an expert-led to-do list for the ALA Annual Conference. Our panel will discuss what their excited about seeing on the Exhibition Floor. Whether you're attending the conference or not, this is a great opportunity to learn about what's new, what's exciting and what's trending.

Our panel for this epsisode:

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:

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:

In case you missed it, the archive of Episode 2, Landing Your Ideal Library Job, the archive is now available. Host David Connolly led a fantastic discussion with panelists Jill Klees and Bohyun Kim. We want to extend a special thanks to our live audience, our panel and the staff at the Northwestern University Library. Check out the video below!