Audiobooks: Revolutionizing Learning for Modern Students

Speakers:

• Shannon Tennant

  Coordinator of Library Collections Elon University’s Belk Library

  Shannon Tennant is the Coordinator of Library Collections at Elon University’s Belk Library. She is responsible for ordering and organizing materials in all formats. She also serves as a liaison librarian and participates in the instruction program. She is active in the American Library Association and teaches an online class about cataloging. She has written and presented about cataloging, e-resources, cross-functional librarianship, and librarians’ contributions to campus high-impact practices, with special focus on first-year seminars.

• Zoe Orcutt

  Digital Content Librarian, International Collection DevelopmentOverDrive

  Zoe Orcutt is a Digital Content Librarian working with international schools on OverDrive’s Global Libraries and Education team. She has a BA in English from the University in Akron and a MLIS from Syracuse University. Before coming to OverDrive, she was an academic librarian working in Northeast Ohio colleges and universities. She currently works with school libraries and consortia in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. 

• Traci Egan

  Account Manager OverDrive Academic

  Traci Egan is an Account Manager at OverDrive Academic who works with colleges and universities to find digital offerings for campus leisure reading and curriculum needs and previously supported global K-12 school partners in Australia and Asia. Traci’s career spans many roles in book retailing and marketing at Barnes & Noble, so books and reading have been a central part of her professional life. 

• Danielle D’Orlando

  Curator of Audio Princeton University Press

  Danielle D’Orlando is the Curator of Audio at Princeton University Press, home to the first in-house university press audiobook division: Princeton Audio. She spent much of her career at Yale University Press where she spearheaded their audio program, including the development of Yale Press Audio.

• Matthew Rubery

  Audiobook Historian Queen Mary University of London

  Matthew Rubery is an audiobook historian at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences (2022), The Untold Story of the Talking Book (2016), and Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (2011).