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DPLAfest 2017—the fourth major gathering of the Digital Public Library of America’s broad community—will take place on April 20-21, 2017 in Chicago at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center. For more information, visit the DPLA website.
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Brenton Cheng

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Guardian, Open Library
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Talk to me about e-book formats, the future of accessibility, making OCR suck less, OPDS, agnostic e-book readers, the one universal source of book metadata, what to do about DRM, Open Library; also, performing arts, Russian verbs, Swift iOS development, and NaNoWriMo.
Thursday, April 20
 

9:00am

Welcome to DPLAfest 2017 Pritzker Auditorium

10:45am

SimplyE: Creating a Library-Owned Ebook Solution 8th Floor Meeting Room

1:00pm

Maximizing Open Access to Ebooks 8th Floor Meeting Room

3:30pm

Building the Library E-content Access Project (LEAP) 3rd Floor Meeting Room
 
Friday, April 21
 

9:00am

Partners in econtent discovery: libraries, publishers and vendors (oh my!) 8th Floor Meeting Room Ebooks Discussion 3rd Floor Meeting Room

10:15am

Reimagining the Digital Monograph: Improving the Discovery and Use of Scholarly Ebooks (JSTOR Labs) Chicago Authors Room

11:30am

Annotation for Collaborative Engagement: Lessons for Library Publishing and the Classroom Chicago Authors Room

1:45pm

Harnessing Volunteer Power for Operational and Programmatic Success 8th Floor Meeting Room

3:00pm

Closing Remarks Pritzker Auditorium