ALA Annual Orlando Recap Highlights Infobase at the Conference

Looking back to ALA Annual Orlando recap and a busy and productive time! Booth #935 was bustling with hundreds of librarians and educators—school, academic, and public. We loved getting to connect with key personnel from all parts of the education community.

Some of the many schools and libraries we were glad stopped by were Polk County Schools, Virginia Beach City Schools, University of Manitoba Libraries, University of Tennessee Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Denver Public Library, Collier County Public Schools, Multnomah County Library, and NYC Department of Education/NYC School Library System.

Prizes and giveaways were big draws. Our raffle prize was a Fitbit Charge and a free 1-year subscription to our new and improved Health Reference Center. Many people won prizes from our scratch-off games, including a $100 American Express gift card. Spinning our prize wheel was a fun way for ALA attendees to try to win a Kindle Fire HD and other prizes.

As the engraved chocolate bars we handed out at the booth showed, Infobase is turning 75 this year. Infobase has served educators for 75 years. ALA Annual gave us a great chance to show this in person. We are continuing our long tradition of providing exceptional, proprietary, curated content. We are also delivering it in new and exciting ways. Flipped classrooms, blended learning, and other teaching strategies were hot topics, and our staff demonstrated to customers how our online resources can aid in meeting those educational objectives. We noted particular interest from booth visitors in our recently relaunched Health Reference Center database and our new streaming video collections, and we spotlighted the extensive (and timely!) election-related content in many of our products. Our booth staff set up many free trials.

We’re already looking forward to our next show—see you all soon!