Sessions and Schedule (October)

Attending Library 2.016:

The Library 2.0 virtual conference is free to attend.  No registration is required to attend these sessions, but please consider registering at this site so we can keep you updated about upcoming events.

Webinar Platform:

The sessions are being held in Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate), and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices.  See mobile instructions here.  

Before you join a session:

There is a Blackboard troubleshooting page here: http://library.blackboard.com/ref/9a27bb08-b742-4a75-8ac8-4d22e7db93ab/content/topics/troubleshooting.htm.

 

How to Attend a Session:

  1. Find your time zone. Click on the GMT link to the left of the cities listed.  The calendar will display all sessions in your local time zone.  Verify that you are on the right page by matching the current time clock at the top of the page to your local time.
  2. Locate the session(s) you would like to attend.  Quickly locate a session by using Ctrl+F/Cmd+F to search the page.
  3. Click on the session title in the calendar to expand the event.
  4. Click on the session link to join the Blackboard Collaborate room.  Session links will be added the day before the conference.

 

Compare your time to Grenwich Mean Time (GMT) to determine your viewing time zone. The current GMT time and date are:

 

Click on the time zone link on the left to get to your schedule page.

GMT - 11
GMT - 10 US Hawaiian Standard Time, Honolulu
GMT - 9
GMT - 8 US Alaska Daylight Time, Anchorage
GMT - 7 US Pacific Daylight Time, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Vancouver
GMT - 6 US Mountain Daylight Time, Denver, Salt Lake City, Calgary, Edmonton, Guatemala, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Mangua
GMT - 5 US Central Daylight Time, Houston, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Chicago, Bogata, Kingston, Lima, Mexico City, Winnipeg
GMT - 4:30 Caracas
GMT - 4 US Eastern Daylight Time, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Columbus, Miami, Philadelphia, New York, Washington (DC), Toronto, Nassau, Ottawa, Montreal, Havana, Santo Domingo, La Paz, San Juan
GMT - 3 Santiago Daylight Time, Halifax Daylight Time, Buenos Aires, Asuncion, Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
GMT - 3:30 St. Johns Daylight Time
GMT - 2 Montevideo Daylight Time
GMT - 1
GMT + 0 Greenwich Mean Time, Reykjavik, Casablanca, Accra
GMT + 1 Lisbon, Dublin, London, Algiers, Lagos, Kinshasa,
GMT + 2 Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Zurich, Frankfurt, Oslo, Copenhagen, Rome, Berlin, Prague, Zagreb, Vienna, Stockholm, Budapest, Belgrade, Warsaw, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Harare, Cairo
GMT + 3 Sofia, Athens, Tallinn, Helsinki, Bucharest, Minsk, Istanbul, Kyiv, Khartoum, Ankara, Jerusalem, Beirut, Amman, Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam, Baghdad, Riyadh, Antananarivo, Kuwait City, Doha
GMT + 3:30 Tehran
GMT + 4 Moscow, Dubai
GMT + 4:30 Kabul
GMT + 5 Karachi, Tashkent, Islamabad, Lahore
GMT + 5:30 Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata
GMT + 5:45 Kathmandu
GMT + 6 Almaty, Dhaka
GMT + 6:30 Yangon
GMT + 7 Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta
GMT + 8 Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hong Kong, Perth, Beijing, Manila, Shanghai, Taipei
GMT + 9 Seoul, Tokyo
GMT + 9:30 Darwin
GMT + 10 Brisbaine
GMT + 10:30 Adelaide
GMT + 11 Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney
GMT + 12 Anadyr, Suva
GMT + 13 Auckland
GMT + 13:45
GMT + 14 Kiritimati