"Meet your library patrons where they increasingly live and work - online. Library Programs Online: Possibilities and Practicalities of Web Conferencing is the first guide to focus on how libraries can use interactive communication tools to develop exciting programs for patrons and staff. This all-encompassing guide introduces you to the possibilities offered by online programs for everything from lectures, demonstrations, and interviews to book discussions and story hours. It outlines the costs of starting and operating a public online program and provides cost-recovery methods and scenarios."--BOOK JACKET.