If you’re heading to the National Book Festival in DC this Saturday or just want to see what people are talking about at the event, the official Twitter hashtag is #nbf. If you’re taking pictures, the Flickr hashtag is #2009nbf.
The National Book Festival is full of useful information including maps and schedules.
One very exciting feature allows you to listen to a large collection of interviews online with some of the authors who will be in attendance. LC’s Matt Raymond is the interviewer.
Some of the Other Features Accessible on the National Book Festival Website Include:
+ Materials (including podcasts) from past NBF. This link will allow you to browse all of the podcasts/interviews ever done for the festival. As we post this item 510 are available. You can also browse podcasts by category.
+ A Link to view the Official 2009 Festival Poster
This blog post talks about “connecting” with the NBF.
Topics include:
+ A web site optimized for mobile browsers
+ Text message updates (we’ve blogged about them a few weeks ago)
+ A large monitor in the Library of Congress Pavilion that will publicly display (in real time) all of twittering taking place at the festival. That’s right, tweets for all to read.
Source: LC
UPDATE 9/25 A Dozen Ways to Enjoy the National Book Festival (via LC Blog)
LC’s Matt Raymond goes over 12 ways (we mentioned a few above) to enjoy the festival while in DC or online elsewhere.
herlc/index.php”>via this page. You can also access webcasts from the 2007 and 2008 festivals here. Matt says that this year’s webcasts will be online by mid- to late-afternoon tomorrow. You can also find content direct from iTunesU and the Library of Congress Channel on YouTube.
If you’re near a TV you can also watch the festival via C-SPAN beginning at 9:50 am. Here’s the C-SPAN program schedule.
Again, a review of this latest blog post is more than worth a look. Nice job Matt!
Almost forgot:
If you’re going to the festival, don’t forget to visit the Digital Bookmobile. It will, “showcase eBooks and other digital formats available 24/7 from America’s libraries.” The bookmobile has a Twitter feed (@DigiBookmobile) and Facebook page.
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