SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

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Presentation Authors
Stream: Books, Writing and Reading
Effect of the Provision of Online Audio-Book Resources on Reader Motivation in a Primary School Library Setting: A Comparative Study Between Two International Schools in Hong Kong
  1. Lo, Patrick
  2. Chan, Christopher
Virtual Presentation
On Demand Printing of Small Books by Conventional Offset Lithography: An Experimental Study Bhattacharya, Chinmay
30 minute Paper Presentation
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Tradition and Innovation in Creative Writing McIntyre, Elizabeth
30 minute Paper Presentation
Chris Ware: The Smartest Kid on Earth
  1. Selby, Andrew
  2. Adams, Alastair
  3. Davies, Andrew
  4. Robinson, Jemma
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Art of the Book: Medieval Meets Modern
  1. Dufresne, Dr. Laura Rinaldi
  2. Gardner, Prof. Laura
60 minute Workshop Presentation
The Art and Politics of Creating Children's Books about and by Latino/a and American Indian People and Culture
  1. Berglund, Dr. Jeff
  2. Brown, Berglund Monica
60 minute Workshop Presentation
The Aging Reader and the Evolving Book
  1. McGrath, Dr Roger
  2. Clark, Dr Cherie
30 minute Paper Presentation
Chick Talk: (De)Constructing Chick Lit and Women's Fiction Croker, Carol-Anne
30 minute Paper Presentation
Jan Tschichold, Designer: The Penguin Years Doubleday, Prof Richard
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Book As Tool And Verb Botnick, Ken
30 minute Paper Presentation
Essays in Portfolio Management: An Interactive E-book Powered by MapleTm Prisman, Prof. Eliezer
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Personal Geography Examining Why American Expatriate Writers Lived in Paris and Madrid West, Stan
30 minute Paper Presentation
Material Devotion: The Bible as Object in Puritan Devotional Practice Antracoli, Dr. Alexis
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Political Discourse of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega as a Model for Social Transformation in Colonial Peru Steigman, Dr. Jonathan
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Fluent Language: Technology and the Refiguring of Orality in Current Forms of Writing
  1. Nair, Prof. Parvati
  2. McGlynn, Mark
30 minute Paper Presentation
Recent (Southern) African Literary Histories: An Evaluation Van Coller, Prof. Hendrik Petrus
30 minute Paper Presentation
Rethinking the Art of Biography: Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Writing a Life of One's Own Shurbutt, Dr. Sylvia
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Footprints of Raka: On Rewriting and Canonisation
  1. Van Jaarsveld, Dr. Anthea
  2. Van Coller, Prof. Hendrik Petrus
30 minute Paper Presentation
Charles Lahr's "Progressive Bookshop" Osborne, Dr. Huw
30 minute Paper Presentation
Semana Negra: Popular Culture and the Hispanic Book Fair Trotman, Dr. Tiffany Gagliardi
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Priceless Gift: Book-Giving in Late Medieval French Manuscript Illumination Walker Vadillo, Monica Ann
30 minute Paper Presentation
Yeats and Heaney As Examples: Without Contraries, No Progression Boyle, Kevin
30 minute Paper Presentation
“When i Hear the Word Book I am Getting Nervous”: What Greek Primary School Pupils Believe about Books
  1. Kyridis, Argyris
  2. Souliotis, Mimis
  3. Golia, Dr. Paraskevi
  4. Kassidou, Stella
  5. Drosos, Evagelos
Virtual Presentation
Envisaging the Place of 'Bookness' in a Society of the Future at the Fin De Siècle Hunt, Verity
30 minute Paper Presentation
Preserve, Renew, Invent, Light Bytes: Is the Aphoristic Statement the Future of the Book? Kaiser, Lesley
30 minute Paper Presentation
Narrating the Archive and Archiving Narrative: The Electronic Book and the Logic of the Index Davies, Rosamund
30 minute Paper Presentation
What Is Our Future: The Codex and/or Electronic Media? Owens, Dr. Brian M.
30 minute Paper Presentation
"Bulgarian" Books: The Contrary Cases of Stanislavov, Zheferovic and Paisy Hilendarski Gibson, Dr. Matthew Gibson
30 minute Paper Presentation
Writing, Editing, and Designing Short-Story Books or Short Story-Books for Adults Fetherston, Robin L.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Book's Body: I Read You Glessing, Jill
30 minute Paper Presentation
Marketing Contemporary Literary Fiction in Britain: Constituting the Literary in Publishing Today Malik, Dr. Rachel Y.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Conquering the Incongruency of Academic Entrepreneurism: A Working Transdisciplinary Model
  1. Marrow, Dr. Sherilyn
  2. Thomas, Dr. David
30 minute Paper Presentation
South Korean Bookseller’s Online Word-of-Mouth Marketing Chekar, Choon Key
30 minute Paper Presentation
Reading Romance in a Crime Ridden South Africa
  1. Penzhorn, Cecilia
  2. Snyman, Maritha
30 minute Paper Presentation
Reinventing the book culture for the 21st century De Beer, Prof. Carel Stephanus
30 minute Paper Presentation
Evaluatıon of Prımary School Turkısh Books for Creatıve Wrıtıng Kolaç, Emine
30 minute Paper Presentation
Remembering Gutenberg Buchanan, William
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Metametadata Architecture System
  1. Ismail, Amirah
  2. Joy, Dr. Mike
30 minute Paper Presentation
Children’s Books Should Be an Open-Ended Experience
  1. Carothers, Prof. Martha
  2. Delaney, Danielle
  3. Casey, Allison
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Concerning E-Books: Addressing Form and Content in Stephen King's the Plant Palko, Amy
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Interaction of Books and Multimedia: Some Thoughts for Authors Fiore, Dr. Douglas
30 minute Paper Presentation
Public Spaces: Collective Innovation Creating Opportunities for Books and Reading Stubbs, Jane
30 minute Paper Presentation
Students’ Attitudes Toward Book and e-Book: The Case of Greek Students
  1. Anastasiadou, Dr. Sofia D.
  2. Papa, Amalia
Virtual Presentation
The Use of Community Spaces in the UK Book Publishing Industry: Community Spaces and Book Marketing Conner, Tim
30 minute Paper Presentation
Books above the Throne: The Ascension of the Book and the Actualization of Rule of Law in 17th -Century England Callister, Prof. Paul
30 minute Paper Presentation
Product Integration in Teen Chick Lit Novels: How Authors Support the Buying Habits of Teens Maresco, Dr. Peter
Virtual Presentation
Ich, Du, Und Sie: Private and Public Writing by Multiliterate Authors Bennett-Kastor, Prof. Tina
30 minute Paper Presentation
Memories of Bonegilla: Recollections of an Insider Arvanitis, Dr. Eugenia
Virtual Presentation
One Book, Two Readings: The Strange Case of "Anandamath" Chandran, Mini
Virtual Presentation
Negotiating Historical Uses and Racist Abuses: A Publishing History of Mein Kampf Fay, Brendan
Virtual Presentation
Reading and Democracy Habib, Dr. M.A.R.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Graphic Novel from Diaspora to Diaspora: James Strum's the Golem's Mighty Swing and JT Waldman's Megillat Esther in the Tree of Contexts Soltes, Dr Ori Z.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Digital Printing: The Answer to Publishing Industry Challenges Medina, Jesús
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Books in the Digital World Nistal, Ana
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Social Web: Changing Knowledge Systems and their Impacts on Higher Education Kalantzis, Prof Mary
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Books Burn Bad... or how to Help to Create and Keep Readers Basanta Reyes, Antonio
30 minute Paper Presentation
Going Back to the Root Castrillón, Silvia
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Reinvention of Libraries González Quirós, Dr José Luis
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Book: The Open Sarchofagus Millán, José Antonio
Plenary Presentation
Nota sobre la libre circulación de los productos culturales de Ávila, Antonio M.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Educational Resources and Learning
Hands on and Minds Open: Using Rare Books to Understand the Culture of Reading Grace, Kevin
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Textbook as a Medium of Instruction: The Book as a Medium for Learning
  1. Rutherford, Justine
  2. Streeter, Pamela
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Integrating ICT Into Remote Australian Indigenous Learning Contexts: Implementing Effective Pedagogy in Primary and Vocational Education Wallace, Ruth
30 minute Paper Presentation
The 10-year Subversive, Metaphysical, And Sometimes Controversial History of Teaching a Book Called Push Kenneth, DiMaggio
30 minute Paper Presentation
Books are Wonderful, but can Americans Read them? Forms of Illiteracy in American Culture Apt, Dr. Carol
30 minute Paper Presentation
Seeing the World in Metaphor: Teaching Creative Writing to Students of Design Lodge, Jeff
30 minute Paper Presentation
From Text to Video and Back: Digital Storytelling and the Printed Word
  1. Diaz, Jose Oscar
  2. Diaz, Karen R.
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Learning Across Language: Using Translation in the ESL Classroom Paine, Patty
30 minute Paper Presentation
Narrative Stance as Default for Reading
  1. Sweetnam Evans, Dr. Moyra
  2. Lee, Ha Rim
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Electronic Private Library (EPL)
  1. Movafaghi, Dr. Shahriar
  2. Pournaghshband, Hassan
  3. Collins, Dr. J. Stephanie
  4. Chan, Tom
30 minute Paper Presentation
Discovering Miss Havisham Mitchell, Liz
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Public Relations Academic Journals: Traditional Citations Eclipsed by Electronic Sources? Thomas, Dr. Maggie
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Call for Redesigning the Foreign Language Textbook Ramsay, Dr. Violeta
Virtual Presentation
The Demands of Social-Presence and Teacher-Presence in Online Learning Environments: Limitations of Printed Text
  1. Burch, Tony
  2. Nagy, Dr Judy
30 minute Paper Presentation
Career Readiness and Preparation Criteria in Undergraduate Dance Degree Programs Klein, Dr. Kathleen
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Modern Marketing Textbook-Adding Educational Value: Textbook as an Augmented Product Masikunas, George
Virtual Presentation
Prosody in Thai Poetry and its Relation to Beauty in Content of Creative Writings in FL Classroom Antarasena, Dr. Salinee
Virtual Presentation
Does the Book offer Enough of a Challenge to Contemporary Design Students? Bell, Simon
30 minute Paper Presentation
The "Secrets of Biblioland” Interactive Game: An Innovative Approach to Information Literacy Moschini, Elena
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts
Speaking the Same language? Differences and Similarities Between UK and US Bloggers Pedersen, Dr Sarah
30 minute Paper Presentation
Hanuman Carries the Mountain: "Anchor Works" and "Reading at Risk" Kealy, Dr. Thomas
30 minute Paper Presentation
Digital Rights Management: Effects on Research Support in the Context of a University Library
  1. Collins, Dr. J. Stephanie
  2. Movafaghi, Dr. Shahriar
  3. Chan, Tom
30 minute Paper Presentation
More Than The Medium: The Unique Role of Content in User Perception of Interactivity Gleason, James P.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Electronic Archived System to Preserve Library Material
  1. Movafaghi, Dr. Shahriar
  2. Collins, Dr. J. Stephanie
  3. Chan, Tom
  4. Pournaghshband, Hassan
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Customization and Personalization for Library Portal
  1. Movafaghi, Dr. Shahriar
  2. Chan, Tom
  3. Pournaghshband, Hassan
  4. Collins, Dr. J. Stephanie
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Electronic Journal: A Vehicle for Interdisciplinary Exploration Bostock, Dr. William W.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Community and Communion: Books as Communal Artefacts in the Digital Age
  1. Ibrahim, Dr. Yasmin
  2. Smith, Dr. Nichola
Virtual Presentation
Using Topic Maps to Create a Sophisticated Digital Library Stevenson, Alison
30 minute Paper Presentation
Millennial Attitudes Towards Books and E-Books
  1. Nicholas, Dr. Arlene J.
  2. Lewis, Dr. John K.
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Document Structure to Support Multimodal Representation of Mathematics Carvalho, Dr. Jackson
Virtual Presentation
Fast Capitalism, Fast Knowledge – Perform or Else! Besley, Prof. Tina (A.C)
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Electronic Book as a Disruptive Innovation in the Print on Paper Regime: Mapping the Emergent Sociotechnical Network
  1. Piterou, Athina
  2. Steward, Prof Fred
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Field of Dreams or as Good as it Gets: Technology's Impact on Teaching in Higher Education Lawson, Dr David
30 minute Paper Presentation
Esotourism: A Liquidation Sale of Hidden Knowledge Lee, David Haldane
Virtual Presentation
Los libros en el mundo digital Nistal, Ana
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Libraries
Physical Deterioration of Books: Preservation Principles Konsa, Dr. Kurmo
Virtual Presentation
Librarians' Work Today: Any Questions? Librarians go from Gatekeepers to Gateways
  1. Rutherford, Justine
  2. Streeter, Pamela
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Book Survival in Academic Landscapes of the Future McCarthy, James P
30 minute Paper Presentation
The E-Books in Libraries
  1. Perera, Kamani
  2. Chandra, Dinesh
30 minute Paper Presentation
It's Not the Content, it's the Language Harran, Dr. Marcelle
30 minute Paper Presentation
eBooks in Jordanian Academic Libraries: Survey and Analytical Study Momani, Dr. Hassan Ahmad
30 minute Paper Presentation
Separate but Together: Collection Management at a Joint-Use Library
  1. Owens, Rachel
  2. Bozeman, Dee
Virtual Presentation
Arabic Academic Libraries and E-books: Description and Analysis of the Current Practices Al Aufi, Ali Saif
30 minute Paper Presentation
Traditional Books in the Digital Age: The Study of Art History in the 21st century Haas, Anne
30 minute Paper Presentation
Students’ Reactions towards e-Books in a University Library Collection
  1. Abdullah, Dr Noorhidawati
  2. Gibb, Prof. Forbes
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Reinvention of Libraries González Quirós, Prof. José Luis
Plenary Presentation
Teacher Learning Using Turning Point Texts: A Literacy Teacher Study Group in a Gentrified Urban Community of Practice Williams, Dr. Nicola
30 minute Paper Presentation
Externalities of the Digital Library Lybarger, Dr. Lowell
Virtual Presentation
Read This Book! A Case Study of Library Outreach and Integration in the New Student Reading Project at Cornell University
  1. Wilcox, Wendy
  2. Heidig, Lance
Virtual Presentation
European Library Travel and the Enlightenment Walker, Dr. Thomas
30 minute Paper Presentation
The New Librarian’s Skill: Management and Information Literacy Morillo-Velarde Serrano, Prof. José
30 minute Paper Presentation
La nueva habilidad del bibliotecario: Alfabetización en la gestión y la información Morillo-Velarde Serrano, Prof. José
30 minute Paper Presentation
From Catalogues to Networks: Library Systems Evolution in Digital Scenarios Gradmann, Dr. Stefan
30 minute Paper Presentation
Opening the Book Peters, Prof. Michael A.
Plenary Presentation
Stream: Literacy
Effects of a Computer-Based Reading Tutor on the Attitudes and Views of Multilingual Young Readers
  1. Shapiro, Dr. Jon
  2. Wakefield, Jane
  3. Reeder, Dr. Kenneth
30 minute Paper Presentation
From Baby Steps to Giant Leaps: Developing and Presenting an Information Literacy Course at the University of the Free State Coetzer, Lianda
30 minute Paper Presentation
Compounding Literacy: Examining Disciplines in Which Mastery Surpasses Words Stvan, Dr. Laurel
30 minute Paper Presentation
Vernacularities: Agency and the Literacies of Difference Thomas, Prof. Valorie
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Literarcy, Learning, and a Just Society: Three Views from the Enlightenment Schuler, Dr. Jeanne
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Publishing
Digitisation of Printing Media and Pattern of Culture Transitivity: Digital Content Publishing in China Chen, Jie
30 minute Paper Presentation
Reading the Texts on Publishing: A New Academic Discipline or Something Else? Kovac, Dr. Mihael
30 minute Paper Presentation
Strategic Publishing Brands Management Pitsaki, Dr. Irini
30 minute Paper Presentation
The British Index: Censorship in Seventeenth-Century Britain Robertson, Dr. Randy
30 minute Paper Presentation
The British Index: Censorship in Early Modern England Robertson, Dr. Randy
30 minute Paper Presentation
La Revista Contratiempoyla Formacion del lector en Español en Chicago Castro Urioste, Jose
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Artists' Books in México: Cocina Ediciones y El Archivero Vilchis Esquivel, Luz del Carmen
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Beat Book: Small Press, Fine Press, and Major Publishers Lawlor, Dr. William
30 minute Paper Presentation
Sociology of Publishing Careers: The Mechanisms of Labour Recruitment in the UK Publishing Sector Lau, Pui-yan (Flora)
30 minute Paper Presentation
Inferences for the Greek Publishing Industry through the Analysis of Market Data Banou, Dr. Christina
Virtual Presentation
A Knowledge-based View Book Publishing: A Kenyan Based Perspective Mwihia, Robert Kagiri
Virtual Presentation
How do we Know what they want to Read? Determining the Reading Preferences and Needs of Afrikaans Children in South Africa
  1. Snyman, Maritha
  2. Penzhorn, Cecilia
30 minute Paper Presentation
Academic Life and Access to Publishing Facilities in Ghana: A Case Study Sekyi-Baidoo, Yaw
30 minute Paper Presentation
Holy Women, Holy Books & the New World Market: The Press of Maria Fernandez in 17th Century Alcala Weaver, Karen
Virtual Presentation
Grant Richards: A Publisher Before His Time Stevenson, Prof. Iain
30 minute Paper Presentation
Not Perfect But Good Enough: Experiences Using Machine Translation In A Multi-Lingual Institution Lombard, Huibre
30 minute Paper Presentation
No Baggage, Only Possibilities: Starting a University Press from Scratch Pankow, Prof David
30 minute Paper Presentation
Breaking New Ground via Signal Source Publishing
  1. Thompson, Helen
  2. Macleod, Andnrew
  3. Feely, Paul
Virtual Presentation
The Bookarts Work of Sailorboypress: The Politics of Content Morin, Prof. Jeffrey
30 minute Paper Presentation
Books for a Minority: Russian-Langauge Publishing in Estonia Möldre, Aile
Virtual Presentation
Book Publishing in the Age of Digital Convergence: The Best Days Are Yet to Come Malala, Dr John
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: No Stream Selection
Promises to Keep Henry, Prof. DeWitt
Virtual Presentation
Institutional Repositories: The Next Phase Hanson, Laura
Virtual Presentation
Chipping Away at Academic Capitalism through Open Access: Chipping Away at Academic Capitalism through Open Access DoBell, Daniel
Virtual Presentation