ALA Mobile Conference

American Library Association

About this app

**FOR ATTENDEES ONLY**

The ALA Mobile Conference mobile application allows you to access the American Library Association's various annual conferences. Within the underlying event apps, users can access presentations, exhibitors, posters, and connect with other attendees. Users can also take notes adjacent available presentation slides and draw directly on slides inside the event apps.

App is using foreground services to download event data and images from the server.

Ratings and reviews

App constantly freezes and crashes when I try to open my schedule. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it several times, and it just won't work. Very frustrating! I'm glad that I have all that info online since the midwinter conference is virtual this year, but I really hope that this app is better when we're back in person.

Except that exhibits are called library marketplace, the app works as expected. Slow to open, you'll have to keep it open during the conference. Would have liked to see a top level list of major speakers. If there is such a list in the app, we'll, that tells you that it is a bit opaque. You need to know where the information is in order to find it.

See below for 2021. In 2018 content suddenly disappeared, after several days of adding events! No link at all and no explanation. Here's my update in 2021: same exact problem! App crashes while doing updating. All pre-existing personal schedule data lost. Closing and restarting the app does not help. I don't see a way to have continuous/background updating - it seems to do nothing until you open it, then it takes forever. It looks really nice at first glance, but I have uninstalled.

What’s new

Minor bug fixes and improved functionality.