SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

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(Sessions are grouped by Stream)

Presentation Authors
Stream: Books, Writing and Reading
Cheap Thrills: Bluebeard in Victorian Chapbooks Hermansson, Dr. Casie
30 minute Paper Presentation
Defining the Book Today: A Perplexing Endeavor Zekri, Catherine
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Strange Life and Death of Edinburgh Map Publishing Stevenson, Prof. Iain
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Text as a Scalable Structure: New Ways of Storytelling? Armaselu, Florentina
Virtual Presentation
Readers’ Perceptions: The Book as Device or as Aesthetic Object
  1. Woods, Prof Claire A.
  2. Lushington, Assoc. Prof. Kurt
  3. Crichton, Dr Jonathan
30 minute Paper Presentation
Publishing the Institutional Book: Brave New World or the Ultimate Vanity Press? Nichols, Dr Robert
30 minute Paper Presentation
Print, Profit and Pedagogy: The School Aids and Text Book Publishing Company Gagné, MaryLynn
30 minute Paper Presentation
A New Genre for the XXI Century: The 'Short Novel' or 'Micronovel' Druzhnikov, Prof Yuri
Virtual Presentation
'Between' and the Neo-Existentialist Bildungsroman Petrou, Prof Laurie
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Historiographic Analysis of Visual Texts: Reviewing Information Graphic Methodologies as a Means of Historical Argument Jordan, J.D.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Race for a Cure: Diabetes Doctors, Their Remedies and Their Publications Furdell, Dr. Elizabeth Lane
30 minute Paper Presentation
Annotations on the Failure of Socialism in America Martinek, Dr. Jason D.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Back to the Books: Literary Studies and Special Collections
  1. Jaret McKinstry, Prof. Susan
  2. Wermager, Kristi
30 minute Paper Presentation
American Fantasy for Youthful Audiences May, Prof Jill P.
Virtual Presentation
Oprah's Reading Revolution Konchar Farr, Prof Cecilia
30 minute Paper Presentation
(Re)Collecting Stories: The Private Libraries of Fin-de-Siècle Paris Mendelson, Dr. Valerie
Virtual Presentation
Sampson Low: A London Publisher Behind the Scene of the Victorian Book Trade Barnes, Prof. James J.
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Boy's Life: The Popularity of the Male Memoir Penrod, Dr. Diane
30 minute Paper Presentation
Books as Media: The Adaptation Industry Murray, Dr Simone
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Role of Books as Mentors for Women in Leadership Positions Knorr, Dr. Helena
30 minute Paper Presentation
Publish or Perish Circa 1600: Cervantes' Paratexts Baena, Prof. Julio
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Demise of the Disguise: Plagiarism and Translation in an Emerging Global Context Piety, Prof. Marilyn
30 minute Paper Presentation
Volumes Reconfigured: Sculptural Investigation into the Life Cycle of Ideas/Books Senn, Holly A.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Used Bookstores and Preservation: What Are 'Finds' Worth? Morris, Michael L.
Virtual Presentation
Comic? Book? or Of Maus and Manga: Visualizing Reading, Reading the Visual in Graphic Novels Larsson, Prof. Donald F.
30 minute Paper Presentation
When Not to Judge (Manuscript) Book by Its Cover (or Hands in It): Case of Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Graecus 210 (Ba) of Aeschylus Zabrowski, Prof. Charles J.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Covering Photography: A Metaphorical History of Photography Through Fiction and Poetry Book Covers Baden, Karl
30 minute Paper Presentation
Rethinking Creativity and Approaches to Teaching: The Systems Model and Creative Writing
  1. McIntyre, Dr Phillip
  2. McIntyre, Elizabeth
Virtual Presentation
Using Power Point in Theme Development
  1. Melton, Austin
  2. Melton, Dr Sonja
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Illustrated Henry James: 'The Beast in the Jungle' as Example Bazargan, Prof. Susan
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Role of Protestant Christianity in Modern Young Adult Realistic Fiction Hilbun, Dr. Janet
30 minute Paper Presentation
Electronic Publishing and the Creative Commons License: The Author-Reader Dialog Atchinson, Cadence H
Virtual Presentation
Books and Reading as Elements of Pleasure: The Meaning of a University-Wide Reading Program in an Oral Society in the Middle East Fetherston, Robin L.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Wax Tabula in Alfredian England: A Discussion in Two Acts Engdahl, Lee David
Virtual Presentation
Transatlantic Twins: Towards a History of British and American Editions Mitchell, Dr J. Lawrence
Virtual Presentation
The Man of Letters as Hero Egeland, Marianne
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Technology and Storytelling of Color in the Sequential Narrative: Using Color to Tell Stories Talon, Prof. Durwin S.
60 minute Workshop Presentation
International Co-authorship in Academic Journals: A Chinese Perspective on Patterns, Motivations, Barriers and Benefits
  1. Royle, Jo
  2. Coles, Louisa
30 minute Paper Presentation
Anticipating Antiquity: Jean Jacques Boissard's 'Topographia Urbis Romae' (1681) and the Reworking of Rome de Bruijn, Ir Willem
30 minute Paper Presentation
Is There a Book in you? The Resources Writers Need to Get Published Baverstock, Alison Mary
30 minute Paper Presentation
Book-Seekers and Book-Keepers: The Role of the Librarian as Information Mediator MacDonald, Jean B.
Virtual Presentation
A Census of the Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio: Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1947) Miller, Dr David Rush
30 minute Paper Presentation
Hardly Worth Reading?: Recuperating the Great War Popular Novel Potter, Dr Jane
30 minute Paper Presentation
Back to the Future: Bookseller as Publisher-Once Again Connelly, Graeme
30 minute Paper Presentation
"This Memoir is a Subjective Truth": Marketing the Real and the Desire for Literary ‘Authenticity’ Kiernan, Anna
30 minute Paper Presentation
“Here is something methinks I should like to read”: American Access to Periodical Literature in the Eighteenth Century Pacholl, Prof. Keith A.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Teaching the Anthropology of Books and Reading Grace, Kevin
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Literary Things: Marketing Authors in Objects Ard, Dr. Patricia
30 minute Paper Presentation
Poaching the Print: Theorising the Scrapbook in Stephen King's The Shining and Misery Palko, Amy
30 minute Paper Presentation
Framing Business Setting and Systems Development Life Cycle within an Information Systems Course Ovlia, Dr. Ali
30 minute Paper Presentation
Perspectives on Teaching Creative Writing: Lessons from an African University Tsehlana, Ms Halejoetse
Virtual Presentation
Visions of Modernity: The Brazilian Vanguard Text and the Search for a National Identity Soler, Patricia A.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Big Read: Cultural Authority and the Construction of the Popular Canon Wright, Dr David
30 minute Paper Presentation
Lost Between Fact and Fiction: An Examination of Race, Slavery and Publishing in early New York City Beal, Dr. Thomas D.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Pages from the Ashes: Publishing the Watts Writers Workshop Mousli Bennett, Dr Béatrice
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Art of the Book: Libri ad Libris (Books to Books) Wong, Janine
30 minute Paper Presentation
Watching Readers: Service or Spyware? Lesk, Michael
30 minute Paper Presentation
Whose Book Is It, Anyway? The Text in Flames from Little Women to South Park Justice, Dr. Hilary K.
Virtual Presentation
Adversarial Affiliations: Regional Caribbean Publishing and International Postcolonial Theory Verhagen, Katherine E.
Virtual Presentation
Novel Encounters: Publishing Yvonne Vera in the West Root, Melissa R.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Fiction and Immigration Politics: Case of Reyna Grande's Across a 100 Mountains McLean, Prof. Andrew M.
30 minute Paper Presentation
When Words Become Untouchable: A Case for Book-Making in the Classroom Henderson, Prof Nicole
30 minute Paper Presentation
Performance Criticism: Dramatizing the Nature and Art of Fiction in Teaching Madden, Prof. David
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Ill-Tempered Musician: The Contested Role of Tunebooks in Irish "Trad" Music Carson, Prof. Mina J.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Development of National Book Policy in a Post Apartheid Society: The Process and Challenges Masokoane, Glenn Ujebe
30 minute Paper Presentation
Short-Circuiting the Book Reid, Rick
Virtual Presentation
The Phenomenology and Aura of the Book in the Age of Its Apparent Online Reproducibility Marshall, Dr Alan
Virtual Presentation
Text Semiotics, Hermeneutics and the Book: A Comparative-Historical Sociological Analysis Bakker, Prof. J. I. (Hans)
Virtual Presentation
Noblesse Oblige: France's Bibliotèque de la Pléiade Keith, Claire
30 minute Paper Presentation
Popular Romance Fiction and the On-line Community Kamble, Ms. Jayashree
Virtual Presentation
Multicultural Books and the Culture Wars in the 21st Century Shinn, Dr. Christopher A.
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Different Kind of Club: Literacies of an After School Book Club for Adolescent Girls Conley, Dr. Katanna
30 minute Paper Presentation
Information Literacy Overload and the Impact of Misinformation, Disinformation, and eInformation on End Users of Hard Copy and Online Publications Amoriggi, Dr. Helen
30 minute Paper Presentation
What Publishers don’t know about how their Readers (eReaders) deal with Information (eInformation) Literacy Overload. The Gutenberg - Gates Dichotomy! Bonn, Joel
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Educational Resources and Learning
The Impact of the New Textbook on Student Learning Jefferson, Dr Renee
Virtual Presentation
Teaching Book Culture Christie, Dr. N. Bradley
30 minute Paper Presentation
Managing Expectations for Educational Hybrid Books Leonard, Kendra
30 minute Paper Presentation
Competing with Free
  1. Anderson, Todd
  2. Martin, Dr. Jerome
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Integrating Multimedia Components into the Traditional and Innovative Instructional Environment: Contextualizing the Learners’ Ways with Words and Images within the Distance Education Framework
  1. Crawford, Dr. Caroline M.
  2. Freeman, Dr. Lynn
Virtual Presentation
Digital Rights Management and E-Learning Gregory, Dr. Vicki L.
30 minute Paper Presentation
From Manuscript to Printed Page: Training Student Editors on Real Publications Huff, Casey L.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Value of Print for English Language Learners: Comparing Literacy Gains with Multimedia and Print Reading
  1. Patten, Kathryn Boudreau
  2. Valcarcel Craig, Dr. Dorothy
Virtual Presentation
Future Memories: A Case Study of a Student Book Publication in the Middle East
  1. Martin, Asst Prof. Peter Stockwell
  2. Choueiry, Dr. Halim
30 minute Paper Presentation
Communicating about Cancer Research through Cronicas
  1. Dal Pian, Dr Maria Cristina
  2. Dal Pian, Luiz Fernando
30 minute Paper Presentation
Student Writers, Student Authors and Technology: How Can Teachers Help Students Assert Their Voice Sandapen, Prof Sheila F.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Literacy Failure Case Studies: What Is Holding Them Back? Carroll, Dr Margaret
30 minute Paper Presentation
No Laughing Matter: Teaching Comedy Through Writing Beard, Dr. Pauline Winsome
Virtual Presentation
Are Text Books & Slides Enough to Reach a Digital Savvy Multi-cultural Generation? Chu, Prof. Alice I.
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Practical Guide to Developing and Distribuing Multiple Media Texts
  1. George-Palilonis, Jennifer A.
  2. King, Prof. Brad
30 minute Paper Presentation
Which One Book would you Recommend to Entering College Freshmen? Grenier, Dr. Charles
30 minute Paper Presentation
Multifold Iterations: Letterpress Printing as Critical Practice O'Connell, Prof. Megan
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts
The New Book: Ebook Authoring Past, Present & Future
  1. Harroff, Prof. William
  2. Johnson, Prof. Charlotte
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Why I Will Always Teach LCSH: Helping Information Seekers Interpret the Meaning of Digital Records Feind, Rebecca
30 minute Paper Presentation
Informational Structure of Books and Preservation Konsa, Dr. Kurmo
Virtual Presentation
Forming Hybrid Innovative Communities in the Book Publishing World: An Exploration Ziv, Prof. Nina D.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Problem of the Aggregate Author: A Theory of Attribution and Accountability in Online Knowledge-Base Communities Jordan, Stephen T.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Women’s Diaries and TEI: A Historian’s Adventures in Web-Publishing Tomasek, Prof Kathryn
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Interest of Computer-Generated Narration: How Artificial Intelligence Can Avoid Telling a Boring Story Bratières, Mr Sébastien
Virtual Presentation
Information Literacy: Teaching Students to Use What They Find
  1. Cassady, Dr. Dave
  2. Larremore, Lynda
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Microchip Implants and The Culture of Print: Abstraction Over Obsolescence Joseph, Dr. Roy
30 minute Paper Presentation
Social Relations in Digital Libraries: Visions and Realities Ford, Charlotte
Virtual Presentation
Hearing What's Read Meyer, Dr. Rudi
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Accordion Book: An Old Idea Reinvented for Digital Printing
  1. Breede, Prof. Manfred
  2. Lisi, Jason
30 minute Paper Presentation
From Aldus to iPod: Books and Personal Media Devices as Extensions of the Self
  1. Perrault, Dr. Anna H.
  2. Crummett, Courtney
30 minute Paper Presentation
Prescience Or Presumption: Vidal & McLuhan Nelson, Prof. Thomas
30 minute Paper Presentation
Google Book Search: Value-Added or Added Hype? Hollingsworth, Jaena
30 minute Paper Presentation
Linear Thought in an Age of Non-linearity: Threat of Interactive Technology to the Book Grady, Dr. Don A.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Addressing the Difficulty of Poetry Through the Use of Hypertext O'Neill, Lois
30 minute Paper Presentation
Exploring the Effects of the Digital Environment on Society’s Archive: A Life-Cycle Approach Bradley, Dr. Jana
30 minute Paper Presentation
Riposte Readers’ Perceptions: The Book as Device or as Aesthetic Object.
  1. Bellaver, Prof. Richard
  2. Lushington, Assoc. Prof. Kurt
  3. Woods, Prof Claire A.
30 minute Paper Presentation
What Does Open Access Mean for the Book? Robin Peek, Dr.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Towards the Semantic Web: A Survey of Contemporary Text Transformations Kalantzis, Prof. Mary
Plenary Presentation
Stream: Libraries
Inside Story: Exploring Classical Texts from a Variety of Cultures in the Primary School Classroom McGuinn, Dr Nicholas
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Active Archive: Revisionist Poetics of Susan Howe and Lisa Robertson Minkus, Kimberly K.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Teaching of Information Literacy by Public Community College Librarians in the United States Zuke, Dr. Jan
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Vision for the Future of Academic Library Collections
  1. Spitzform, Peter
  2. Sennyey, Pongracz
30 minute Paper Presentation
Innovation or Tradition? Information Literacy and Its Foundation: A Critical Library View
  1. Buschman, John
  2. Warner, Dorothy
30 minute Paper Presentation
Is Google (Babel) the Library of the Future? A Librarian's Paradox in the Information Age Revilla, Vicente
Virtual Presentation
Core Lists, Teaching, and the Humanities: Resources for College Libraries as a Case Study Elmore, Dr. Marcus
30 minute Paper Presentation
Animal-Assisted Librarianship: Delivering Books to Remote Readers Vance, Jason
30 minute Paper Presentation
Intervention Programme In Disadvantaged Non-Reading Communities In South Africa
  1. Machet, Prof Myrna P.
  2. Wessels, Nicoline
30 minute Paper Presentation
From Athens to the Monastery: The Contentious Relationship between Scholarship and the Library and its Books Zeegers, Dr. Margaret
30 minute Paper Presentation
Academic Relationships and the Future of the Library: The University of Alabama and the IMLS Fellowship Mendez, Mei
30 minute Paper Presentation
SALEM in History: A Collaborative Primary Source Website for K-12 History Teachers
  1. Duda, Abaigeal
  2. Axelrod, Irene
30 minute Paper Presentation
Built By the Book for the Book: A New Perspective on the Urban University Library
  1. Hunt, Prof. Neil
  2. Dugan, Robert
30 minute Paper Presentation
Weeding in the Communal Garden Heck, Jeff
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Future of the Book in the Library Missner Devaney, Emily
30 minute Paper Presentation
What do Librarians Do: Facets of a Profession
  1. Berry, JoAnna
  2. Schneider, Juliane
30 minute Paper Presentation
Texts, E-texts, and Research Questions for Academic Librarians Daily, Daniel
30 minute Paper Presentation
On the Optimal Use of the Print Collection in the Digitalization Epoch Liu, Assoc. Prof. Jianxin
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Juvenile Collection in the Academic Library: Does It Belong Here?
  1. Crosetto, Prof Alice
  2. Horan, Mark
Virtual Presentation
Stream: Literacy
Literacy as a Factor in the Development of Cherokee Culture in the 19th Century Parins, Prof James W.
Virtual Presentation
Consistency in the Face of Change: Critical Literacy on Pages and Screens Horning, Dr. Alice
30 minute Paper Presentation
Literacy in the Global Village: The Impact of New Media on Democracy Wilson, Prof. Brenda
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Whole Book Approach: Picture Books as Learning Objects Lambert, Megan
30 minute Paper Presentation
Writing Their World: Exploring Authorship in Teacher Education by Writing Books for Children
  1. Laughlin, Dr. Peggy
  2. Winkley, Dr. Cheryl
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Has the Book Got a Pulse? Life after the “Terminal” Diagnosis Jones, Prof. Marnie
60 minute Workshop Presentation
The Text as Mirror Sunnen, Dr. Donald R.
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Graphic Novel: Engaging New Literacies Schwarz, Dr. Gretchen
30 minute Paper Presentation
The History of Teaching Visual Literacy to Young Children: Access to Visual Information Zahner, Dr. Mary
Virtual Presentation
The Poetics of Childhood, or the Construction of Lost Innocence: R.L.Stevenson’s Verses for Children Politis, Dr Dimitrios
Virtual Presentation
Stream: Other or Stream Unspecified
Barbauld as Editor: Illustration and Aesthetic Choice in The British Novelists Project Dillard, Leigh G.
Virtual Presentation
Is the Internet Too Platonic? Books, Electronis Media, and the Purpose of Communication Kent, Dr. Matthew Alexander
Virtual Presentation
Stream: Publishing
Preserving Our Books for the Future: Is Legal Deposit Realizing the Aim? Penzhorn, Cecilia
30 minute Paper Presentation
The World of Independent Publishing Gale, Dr. Kate
60 minute Workshop Presentation
A Book for All Seasons: Accessing the Future - Why Shifting Demographics Will Change the Way We Read...
  1. Klomp, Ryan
  2. Nolan, Tim
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Electronic Book Publishing in Turkey Gurcan, Prof. Halil
30 minute Paper Presentation
Economic Issues in Shifting Publication Risk in Academic Publishing Mothersill, M. Gillian
30 minute Paper Presentation
Growth of Children's Book Publishing in Taiwan Seitz, Emily
Virtual Presentation
May Massee and Marjorie Flack: A Classic Collaboration
  1. Claes, Dr. Jane
  2. White, Dr. Maureen
30 minute Paper Presentation
Why Socrates Was Wrong about Books: How to Write Non-Fiction That Sells - Without Prostituting the Truth Babcock, Dr. Michael
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Charles Carrington and the Commerce of the Risque Douglas, Dr Paul
30 minute Paper Presentation
Scots Language Publishing: Indigenous Language Publishing Conner, Tim
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Future of Bookselling Berger, Dr Sidney
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Origins of Hispanic Publishing in the Early American Republic Kanellos, Dr. Nicolas
30 minute Paper Presentation
Book Sprint: A New Model for Rapid Book Authoring and Content Development
  1. Zennaro, Marco
  2. Canessa, Dr E
  3. Fonda, Carlo
  4. Belcher, Martin
  5. Flickenger, Rob
30 minute Paper Presentation
Interactivity, The Internet and The Authored Novel: Building on the Relationship between the Reader and the Story Turner, Margaret
Virtual Presentation
Self-publishing an Artist's Book: An Artist's Journey into the Book Publishing World Zakari, Chantal
30 minute Paper Presentation
Publishing’s Effect on Literacy: Experiences in the Pacific Islands Crowl, Linda
30 minute Paper Presentation
Value-added Processes in Publishing and the Impact of ICTs, the Democratization of Publishing and Globalization Ferguson, Dr Stuart
30 minute Paper Presentation
Editors' Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century: Reconceptualising Professional Practice
  1. Brown, Dr Diane
  2. Dorman, Marilyn
Virtual Presentation
Quo Vadis Book Culture? The German Publishing Industry and the Emergence of Film Adam, Jasmin Melanie
30 minute Paper Presentation
Enclosure of the Knowledge Commons: The Role of Scholarly Publishers, Librarians, and Scholars Oliphant, Tami
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Future of the Book: Integrating ePublishing & eLearning Kumar, Dr Brijesh
Virtual Presentation
Was There Irrational Exuberance in the U.S. Book Publishing Industry? An Analysis of University Presses and Commercial Academic Professional Book Publishers: 1989-2000
  1. Greco, Dr. Albert
  2. Rodriguez, Clara
  3. Wharton, Robert
30 minute Paper Presentation
An Analysis of Rejection Letters from Literary Agents
  1. Payne, James
  2. Payne, Dr Esim Erdim
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: No Stream Selection
The Job Definition Format and Print Media: Analysing, Implementing and Managing Workflow Automation Kular, Asst. Prof. Christopher
Virtual Presentation
Reading the Cover: How Books are Positioned in the Market Phillips, Angus
Plenary Presentation
Segmenting the Second Hand Book Sectors Core Customer’s Using Demographic, Psychographic and Benefits Lloyd-Jones, Annabel
Virtual Presentation
One Man Still Stands Fillmore, Laura
Plenary Presentation

 

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