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2009 Banned Books Week began Saturday, September 26, and ends Saturday, October 3!
Tuesday, September 29th
Banned Books Week and the Children’s Librarian at 5:00 pm Pacific Time/Second Life Time at Main Stage, ALA Island (130, 103, 31) — A group discussion about issues related to selection policies, intellectual freedom, and handling challenges as they pertain to [...]
Success! As mentioned in the May 21st entry, 25 signatures from members of ALA’s Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL, a division of ALA) were indeed collected and the accompanying proposal approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, and so the ACRL Second Life Task Force has been “promoted” to the ACRL Virtual Worlds [...]
CHICAGO – ALA Island, the Second Life® (SL) virtual world presence of the American Library Association (ALA), has been granted permission by the HighBridge Company to make a six-minute excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Wife: Unabridged Edition audiobook available to its avatar visitors.
SL residents can teleport to Story Hour Garden on [...]
Looking to see if bestselling author Connie Briscoe/Second Life’s Zillow Dejavu would be visiting Second Life again anytime soon, as I missed the June 28 meeting of her Second Salon Book Club in Second Life, which featured Briscoe speaking with Kimberla Lawson Roby, I found out that Briscoe will be in Second Life TODAY, Sunday, [...]
The Virtual Communities and Libraries Member Initiative Group meeting for the 2009 ALA Annual Conference – taking place in the hometown of ALA Headquarters: Chicago, IL! — will take place in real life on Saturday, July 11, 2009, at 3:00 pm CT (1:00 pm PT/SLT), at National Louis University, which is located at 122 S. [...]
Library Buzz on Info Island - Discussion with ALA: Oberon Octagon, Kay Tairov Live in Second Life Tonight at 5 pm PT/SLT - RSVP at the Facebook Event Page at http://ow.ly/eFcH
As mentioned in the ALA Island I Love Libraries Library Showcase article–
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/news/libraryshowcase
You can see the newest celebrity READ posters of the American Library Association on display on ALA Island — on our Meta_Lab Whiteboard under the Galen Noltenius Sky Platform. Or go directly to the READ Posters Display on ALA Island (200, 140, 28).
Slideshow display [...]
The latest videos and podcast available “on demand” 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on ALA Island –
2009 Chicago Annual Conference Promo: What are YOU looking forward to, this summer?
Galen Noltenius Sky Platform on ALA Island (206, 100, 46)
Produced by ALA Conference Services, this video features plenty of your colleagues discussing the value [...]
ALA’s newly renovated I Love Libraries web site features ALA Island in its Library Showcase, starting today! As explained in the article –
…Like ALA’s Library, which I work for as a Library Reference Specialist, the ALA Island doesn’t have traditional library resources on a variety of topics as a public library would have (and which [...]