Making Book Fairs Friendlier

Through Technology

Jesús Alonso-Regalado University at Albany, SUNY SALALM LVIII Coral Gables, FL May 21, 2013

How Technologically-Friendly are the Book Fairs? Mobile

Site App? Social Media Wireless Other

Cuba Live TV

Bogota Business area Blog, Virtual stands

Santo Domingo

Buenos Aires

Blog, “Espacio Digital”

Lima Pay for service Live broadcasts, Libro Digital Pavilion

Guatemala Pay for service

Bienal (Rio/Sao

Paulo)

Liber (Madrid/Barcelona)

Free only for exhibitors

Corner Digital

Santiago de Chile

Free in limited areas

Guadalajara Business area

APPS

How Do I Use Technology in the Book Fair?

Useful Documentation

Preparing the Book Fair Trip (I)

Generate a list of the materials owned by the library (specific dates, countries of publication etc.) in HTML

Additional Documentation:

• Suggestions of titles/topics by students and faculty (Excel)

• Procedures & tips documentation (Word)

• A separate list for DVD’s

At the Book Fair

• Create a spreadsheet including the invoices paid every day and estimate how many funds are left for the rest of the book fair.

• Use all the documentation

compiled BEFORE the trip

• Write field trip notes

Using Social Media to Take your Student and Faculty with you to Your Acquisitions Trip

Bibliography

http://www.cerlalc.org/files/tabinterno/2f0015_Ferias_Digital.pdf Open access ebook (2012)

Thanks!