Today, I listened to the webinar "Ebooks and Libraries". Tom Peters at the Wisconsin E-book presented this webinar on the importance of ebooks. I found the information really interesting. I have been interested in getting ereaders into our schools and this webinar made it clear that it is time. He mentioned that libraries are really behind the rest of the book community when it comes to e-books. He calls the work we need to be doing around the idea of ebooks "murky". I feel that way a lot about technology. It seems like we all know that something needs to be done, we just aren't sure how to do it. He also talked about the idea of publishers not liking libraries. I had never thought of it that way. Publishers see libraries as a drain on their income. Peters said that we should be retraining the publishers to think about libraries as developing a culture of readers. Brilliant!
All in all, I found this webinar to be helpful. For some reason, I was having trouble finding a webinar that would come up with audio and the powerpoint slides. I get really distracted when it is just the audio without any visuals.
I see the public using webinars a lot in the future. As the 23 Things Kansas site mentioned, budgets are getting tighter. It is not always feasible to send groups of people to conferences. Webinars can help by cutting down on the cost of attending. I also think that webinars make it easier for more people to receive information. Most people have a computer, headphones and a microphone. If you are interested in learning more about something, there is probably a webinar out there for you!
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