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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
More to see and hear for the 2009 National Library Week on ALA Island!
As April is School Library Media Month, and, with the permission of SLCN.TV, you can watch at the Galen Noltenius Sky (Video) Platform the recent entry in the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Eduverse Talks series, Beyond the Dewey Decimal [...]
As noted by Eric Shoaf in his blog entry, “Remembering an Iconoclast,” Frank Zappa passed away 15 years ago today — http://blogs.ala.org/LAandM.php
In recognition of that, we’re interrupting the Doug Wilson videogame movie’s run just today, in order to present again Frank Zappa’s March 28, 1986 appearance on Crossfire (courtesy of the Internet Archive) at the [...]
Just in time for ALA’s first annual National Gaming Day on November 15, 2008, ALA Island in Second Life is showing the two-videos-in-one video, “Crafting the Virtual World and The Art of Interactive Storytelling” which was recorded, edited, and written by Douglas Wilson. Watch the video at the Galen Noltenius Sky Platform on ALA Island [...]
In honor of Halloween on Friday, October 31, the Mercury Theater on the Air radio production of “Dracula” plays at the Sky Book Platform, which stars drama legend Orson Welles. Set your World/Environment Settings to Midnight for extra creepiness! (1 hr)
ALA Island (129, 156, 69) - Sky Book Platform
We have that classic (!) 1947 Vocational [...]