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On ALA Connect: Virtual Communities and Libraries, Second Life Users Group, and Virtual Worlds Interest Group (ACRL - Association of College and Research Libraries)
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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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Hi, all! I’m sending this note on behalf of Rhonda Trueman, known in Second Life as Abbey Zenith.
This request concerns the continuation of activities and events in Second Life (SL) by ALA’s Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL, a division of ALA <http://www.ala.org/acrl>), whose group is ACRL in SL.
See the ACRL in Second Life [...]
Posted by Oberon Octagon
For those who don’t know what NLW stands for (I was asked this on two occasions on the ALA Main Stage in Second Life), it stands for National Library Week. This was our second year in SL celebrating NLW. The theme was Worlds Connect @yourlibrary and Island staff tried to make connections with [...]
ALA TechSource is proud to present its first virtual world event—a discussion of virtual worlds, libraries and education with Second Life (SL) expert Joe Sanchez, as his Second Life avatar, North Lamar. Sanchez, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas, is the author of the February/March 2009 issue of Library Technology Reports, [...]
There’s been a change to the order of events for the 2009 National Library Week on ALA Island in Second Life (SL) –
The ALA Connect Presentation by Jenny Levine (Cielo Paris in SL) will now be on THURSDAY, APRIL 16, at 9 am Pacific Time/Second Life Time. It will still be on the Main Stage [...]