CT-R4: Digital Comics & Maker Labs
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Curt Tagtmeier,
Digital Collections Librarian,
Highland Park Public Library www.thekidwizmgmt.com, @holdenfinch11 (Twitter), ctagtmeier@hplibrary.org
Tagtmeier discusses the recent surge in popularity of digital comics on the library scene. Companies such as Hoopla, iVerse, and Overdrive have helped to usher in a new era of ebooks for libraries with digital comics, but there are also self-published and crowd-funded projects that have pushed digital comics into a DIY type of phase. Hear about trends within the context of the library as being a place for users to act as both creators and collaborators (i.e., maker labs).
