Libraries

Grand Opening of the SJSU SLIS Second Life Career Info

Grand Opening of the SJSU SLIS Second Life Career Info Center

The San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science Second Life Career Information Center is a gathering place and information resource for job seekers in library ...

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Introducing Sambiglyon

Introducing Sambiglyon

Some of our favorite Second Life sims for libraries have recently gone through a change of hands.  A few months back, the Alliance Virtual Library system (AVL) became the Community...

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Virtual learning library and Virtual Learning Lab

Virtual learning library and Virtual Learning Lab

a report from the CVL Librarians are in part teachers.  Whether we are giving a workshop, providing bibliographic instruction to a class, answering a reference question or showing a patron where...

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The Future is Now: a conference for librarians and educators

The Future is Now: a conference for librarians and educators

Editor's note: The very successful FIN conference was held in March 2010.  Some of the highlights of the conference are reported here.   "Joining Hands: Library/Museum Collaboration in Virtual Worlds" Moderated by...

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Volunteers of the Month

The Conference Guy

The Conference Guy

Everyone knows Maxito Ricardo (real life: Tom Peters).  He’s the person behind the scenes – and sometime in front of the scenes – in so very many of the conferences,...

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Take me to Your Librarian

Take me to Your Librarian

Sometime it takes a while for people to be recognized.  BuddhistLibrarian ‘Bud’ Ballyhoo (real life: Wendy Dover) was Volunteer of the Month in March 2010, but at that point RezLibris...

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A New Graduate

A New Graduate

When I interviewed the May 2010 Volunteer of the Month, Valibrarian Gregg (real life: Valerie Hill), we were comfortably seated in the lovely building that she was instrumental in building...

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A Free Spirit(Weaver)

A Free Spirit(Weaver)

How apt ReneeIlene SpiritWeaver’s (real life: Lisa Cohn) name is!  Our Volunteer of the Month for June 2010 is a free spirit – certainly in Second Life, and one suspects...

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Goodbye Daisyblue

Daisyblue Will Not Be forgotten

Daisyblue Will Not Be forgotten

(photos and text Dulcie Mills and Snow Scarmon) It started with a message posted on Facebook on May 22 from a relative of Roberta Zerrahn (SL:...

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Library of Congress

Library of Congress Celebrates

Esther Grassian(RL) CLIR/DLF invites you to a celebratory Second Life (SL) Africana exhibit with images from the Library of Congress and...

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PC Library Terms

Politically Correct Library Terms

You no longer have patrons who smell bad, you now have odor-retentive clients. The library visitor is not staggering drunk, he is fermentally...

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SimSeeing

Summer Sims in Second Life

Summer Sims in Second Life

(photos & text) with Snow Scarmon While Second Life is truly a place for all seasons, there are certain sims where the summer feeling is more evident.  This Simseeing reporter visited...

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Linden Prize Winners

Tech Virtual Museum Workshop W

Tech Virtual Museum Workshop Winner of Linden Award

The Annual Linden Award recognizes the individual or team with the most innovative in-world project that improves the way people work, learn, and communicate in their daily...

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Gorean Community

Sex, slavery, and the virtual

Sex, slavery, and the virtual Library

At the Future is Now conference, there were approximately 55 people in attendance for this session. It was one of the most fascinating because its subject, the Gorean...

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AVL

ALA VCL Meeting at the ALA Ann

The ALA Virtual Communities and Libraries Member Initiative Group will meet on Saturday, June 26th from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. EDT.  The Second Life attendees will convene on ALA Island...

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