Archive for August, 2009

Announcing the Virtual Worlds Interest Group of ALA’s Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL, a division of ALA)

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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 [...]



Hear excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Wife: Unabridged Edition Audiobook on ALA Island in Second Life®

« 1 August 2009 | 9:48 | ALALibraryVal Miles, Announcements, Second Life, Story Hour Garden | No Comments »

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 [...]