Virtual Presence

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 [...]

Now playing at the Member Lounge on ALA Island (79, 89, 29), available “on demand” 24/7:
In this five-minute podcast, Linda Mays, program officer for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC, a division of ALA), discusses April 30, 2009, Children’s Day/Book Day, also known as El día de los niños/El día de los libros [...]

You can now view — on the new screens! — at the Sky Book Platform the seven-minute video that details the kickoff for the 2009 National Library Week at the RainbowPUSH Coalition Headquarters here in ALA’s hometown of Chicago — the 51st celebration of National Library Week! RSVP at the Facebook Event Page.
As noted in [...]

Right in the middle of Banned Books Week Town Square on ALA Island (197, 53, 61), you can watch Judith Krug’s appearances on the “Open Mind” PBS TV show, courtesy of the Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Judith%20Krug
The episode pictured above is from 2004, and is available to view in-world in Second Life now. In the coming [...]

From Michigan (public) Radio - StoryLines Midwest radio episode featuring discussion of The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter.
Episode available “on demand” at the Story Hour Garden on ALA Island (25, 101, 21).
In this engrossing novel–alternately hilarious and sad–the author presents varying versions of events, each from the point of view of a different character.
Writer [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]