Vendor Demo Days 2023
Schedule: August 8th and 9th
Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
Registration is required.
| Time | Session | Track | Zoom Room |
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| 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
Grow Economic Impact with Business Solutions from Gale Struggling to engage your business and non-profit communities? Seeking ways to grow economic impact in your area? Looking for ways to develop stronger partnerships in your community? If you answered yes to any of these questions, join Gale to learn about the most important business solutions you need at your library to draw new library users. See how Gale's integrated business solutions like Gale Business: Plan Builder, DemographicsNow, Entrepreneurship, and LegalForms will set your library up for success with local businesses and non-profits in your area. Presenter: Mark Eaton, Gale |
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Zoom Room 1 |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
Creativebug for Libraries Creativebug for Libraries is the easy to use, high-quality online art & craft education resource used by more than 1,200 libraries world-wide. Patrons have unlimited access to thousands of classes for every skill level, and every library subscription comes with Public Performance Rights to support library programming for all ages. Presenter: Meghan Haddad-Null, Creativebug |
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Zoom Room 2 |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
Transparent Language Online for Libraries Interested in subscribing to Transparent Language Online for your community? Transparent Language Online for Libraries empowers anyone to learn over 120 languages anytime, anywhere, on any device — with unlimited simultaneous usage. Every learner in your community is different, whether they're just starting out with the alphabet and travel basics or they're advancing into conversational skills — there's something for everyone. In this demonstration, we will cover a basic introduction to the Transparent Language Online for Libraries system. We will look at various aspects of our learning platform and dive into some of the great content and available features including:
Presenter: Lauren Gancarz & Jim Schmidt, Transparent Language, Inc. |
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Zoom Room 3 |
| 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. |
EBooks & Community Engagement Solutions LYRASIS, leading The Palace Project, and BiblioLabs, creates huge impacts for libraries desiring a patron digital experience that meets the patron where they are in their information and cultural discovery. It is Lyrasis' belief that the public library is the digital center of knowledge and creativity. By providing a seamless, easy-to-use SaaS based platform which aggregates e-content and a patron-facing mobile app, The Palace Project and BiblioLabs helps libraries to further engage directly with their patrons and improve, enhance and expand their electronic resources as well as the community engagement tools made available to them. We will present our Ebooks & Community Engagement solutions and discuss the advocacy and mission aligned goals we share with libraries. Presenter: James English & V. "KAV" Kavanagh,The Palace Project- Division of Lyrasis |
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Zoom Room 1 |
| 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. |
NewsBank - Reliable News and Entertainment Find out how NewsBank's 50 years of trusted and reliable information impacts your patron's journey to connect with news and entertainment they can use in their everyday life. From puzzles, restaurant reviews, trending issues to product reviews, find it all in NewsBank's news. Presenter: Jaye Hess, NewsBank |
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Zoom Room 2 |
| 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. |
Digital Theatre+: Online resources for your Theatre and wider Humanities department Digital Theatre+ is an ever-expanding collection of captured performances, masterclasses with theatre practitioners, lectures with academics, and a digital theatre textbook. Our content ranges from Greek Theatre and Shakespeare through Broadway productions and devised theatre. Several universities and colleges without theatre programs subscribe to our English and interdisciplinary resources. Engage your students with Digital Theatre +! Presenter: Ruben Adorno, Digital Theatre+ |
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Zoom Room 3 |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
hoopla for Consortia Learn how hoopla Consortia can help you serve more content while delivering the best return on investment offered to libraries, all in the #1 rated library app. During this hour we will discuss the following:
Presenter: Corey Etterling, hoopla Digital |
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Zoom Room 1 |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
NewspaperArchive - Unlock and Discover History Join in the live demonstration of NewspaperArchive, one of the largest online newspaper databases available! We currently host over 15,900+ publications with over 280+ million pages of digitized and searchable newspaper content. Our extensive database has content available from all over the world, covering over 400+ years of history ranging from 1607 - 2022. NewspaperArchive varies widely from other resource with 85% unique content. We also specialize in Microfilming and Digitization services, and offer API Access / Data Mining Solutions for large research needs. Presenter: Micaela Coleman, NewspaperArchive |
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Zoom Room 2 |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Kanopy KBASE and programs A brief overview of the Kanopy platform and program types highlighting KBASE. Presenter: Hayley Bloch, Kanopy |
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Zoom Room 3 |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Kanopy: Entertainment and Education through Streaming Video Join us as we explore the importance of offering streaming video at your library. Presenter: Debbie McDonald, Kanopy |
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Zoom Room 1 |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Films on Demand from Infobase This session will be feature our Films on Demand collections and explore the benefits to subscribing for Faculty, Students and the Library. Presenters: Kelly Barcus, Business Development & Sharon Golan, Director of Content Licensing Infobase |
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Zoom Room 3 |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
LinkedIn Learning for Library - Unlimited Online Training for Your Patrons LinkedIn Learning ("LiL") for Library offers online learning your patrons will love, use and apply. Connect your patrons to trending, in-demand skills with LinkedIn Learning for Libraries. Our courses cover everything from the latest technologies to basic computer literacy 一 and everything in between. There's something for every patron who wants to learn. LinkedIn Learning is available in 7 different languages and connects your patrons to online video-based courses that teach in-demand skills companies are hiring for right now. LinkedIn Learning for Libraries is informed by data from LinkedIn, the world's largest professional social media network, allowing us to build and recommend courses that help your patrons keep up with the rapid demand for hard and soft skills. Let Us Show You How LinkedIn Learning Can Help Your Library! Presenter: Adam Bysouth, LinkedIn |
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Zoom Room 1 |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Engage! Inspire! Circulate! with Comics Plus
LibraryPass™ curates high-interest, immersive digital content that helps Public, and Academic libraries expand their reach and engagement—without breaking their materials budget.
We enable readers of all ages, interests, and reading levels to have unlimited, simultaneous access to a curated and diverse collection of immersive digital content—exclusively through libraries!
Learn more about Comics Plus and prepare by reviewing our online Resource Center at support.librarypass.com.
Presenters: Ian Singer & Oren Silverstein, LibraryPass, Inc.
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Zoom Room 2 |
| Time | Session | Track | Zoom Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
Grow Your Community with Adult Education Solutions from Gale Unable to capture the attention of adults who aren't just seeking a book to read or DVD to check out? Seeking new ways to fulfill your mission of lifelong learning? If you answered yes to either of these questions, join Gale to learn about the most important adult education solutions you need at your library to draw new library users. New and improved award-winning adult education solutions to be shared, include: Gale Presents: Udemy, Peterson's Test & Career Prep, Gale Courses, and Excel Adult High School. Presenter: Mark Eaton, Gale |
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Zoom Room 1 |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
CodeCombat: Computer Science Education Platform Our mission: Make computer science accessible to every student (learners from 3rd grade to adult) on Earth. CodeCombat is entirely self-paced and self-directed. It is designed for students of any age, down to grade 3, to learn to write code. At the higher levels, CodeCombat teaches coding at about freshman or sophomore undergraduate level, so it is appropriate for adult learners. Live demo of the platform for anyone interested. Discovery conversation about CodeCombat: What the platform does and how it works. Is CodeCombat appropriate for your library system? Presenter: Dave Sage, CodeCombat |
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Zoom Room 2 |
| 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. |
Just for Kids: Storytime Anytime: Video With Just for Kids’ innovative platform, librarians and parents can create playlists of favorite stories for children to enjoy at home, in the library, or on the go. Kids can watch Curious George get into trouble, learn safety from Officer Buckle, say “no” to that incessant pigeon, and dive into Fairy Tales both classic and fractured. Anytime is a great time for Storytime with Just for Kids from Infobase. Presenter: Lois Bacon, Infobase |
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Zoom Room 1 |
| 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. |
The Washington Post: Enterprise Subscriptions Overview of The Washington Posts subscription offerings for libraries and campuses. Presenter: Megan Carey, The Washington |
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Zoom Room 2 |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Ebooks and Community Engagement Lyrasis allows libraries to accept and showcase digital content directly from their communities. Local authors, musicians, artists, etc. can upload their own work to be displayed on the BiblioBoard web platform and The Palace Project app for wide circulation turning the library into a creative hub for the community. Presenter: Roy Serrao, Lyrasis - ebooks and community engagement division |
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Zoom Room 1 |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
ProQuest Genealogy and Historical Black Newspapers We will conduct an overview of Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest Online, and the ProQuest Black Historical Newspaper Collection. Presenter: Rick Nelson, ProQuest, a part of Clarivate |
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Zoom Room 2 |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
AtoZ Databases See how AtoZ Databases help Patrons, Students and Library Staff to find businesses, jobs and people, as well as targeted marketing for new donors, advocacy and business community networking. Presenter: Peter Maniskas, AtoZ Databases |
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Zoom Room 1 |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
LibraryIQ Platform The LibraryIQ Platform is the easiest way to see and understand your library’s data across key areas of operation - in a single dashboard. Presenter: Jeff Sabin, LibraryIQ |
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Zoom Room 2 |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Overview of Mango Languages Walk through of the dashboard Presenter: Rob Somers, Mango Languages |
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Zoom Room 1 |
- Registration Form
- Attendees will need to register to Marmot Vendor Demo Days 2023
- Please register by or before Sunday, August 6th.
- You will receive a confirmation email once you register, but more information will not go out until Monday, August 7th.