Archive for November, 2008

Salon Huron 11/20 at 3:30 PST/SLT: Honoraria Paine, Full-Time Second Life Librarian

« 19 November 2008 | 11:11 | ALALibraryVal Miles, Salon Huron, Second Life | No Comments »

This week’s discussion leader at Salon Huron on ALA IslandĀ  (196, 206, 29) at 3:30 PST/SLT will be Honoria Paine — who is Debbi Duncan in real life, a technical services and library systems librarian for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She may be the first academic librarian who works FULL TIME in Second Life [...]



ALA SLymposium Draws 80 Attendees (and doesn’t crash)!

« 12 November 2008 | 12:15 | ALALibraryVal Miles, SLymposium 2008 | No Comments »

The ALA Fall 2008 Second Life (SL) Symposium — called the ALA SLymposium for short — on November 8, 2008, stood firm with as many as 78 avatars on its last-minute relocation to Cybrary City, an island next door on the Second Life Information Archipelago of the Alliance Virtual Library which could better accommodate such [...]



This week’s open discussion at Salon Huron on Thursday, 11/6 at 3:30 pm PST/SLT: The Librarian as Second Life Campus Leader

« 5 November 2008 | 16:48 | ALALibraryVal Miles, Salon Huron | No Comments »

This week’s Salon Huron table talk discussion on ALA Island ( 196, 206, 29) on Thursday, November 6, 2008, at 3:30 pm Pacific Standard Time/Second Life Time will be led by the newly crowned Alliance Library System (IL) Librarian of the Year, Barbara Galik, known in Second Life as Puglet Dancer. She will speak about [...]



Now showing at Galen Noltenius Sky (Video) Platform: Crafting the Virtual World and The Art of Interactive Storytelling by Douglas Wilson (30 min), a brief history of videogames!

« 5 November 2008 | 16:29 | ALALibraryVal Miles, Announcements, Galen Noltenius Sky (Video) Platform | 1 Comment »

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 [...]