Real Librarians in Virtual Worlds
Alliance Virtual Library- Second Life
A volunteer collaboration offering library services and resources to residents, educators and students in virtual worlds.
Librarians/Avatars (a couple of them, she showed us several)
Rhonda Trueman (Reference Librarian, Johnson & Wales University, Authors Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries (aka Abbey Zenith in Second Life
Bill Sowers (Kansas Documents and Cataloging Librarian, State Library of Kansas) aka Rocky Vallejo in Second Life
Samantha Thompson (Senior Librarian, NY Public Library) aka Hypatia Dejavu in Second Life
What are libraries doing in Virtual Worlds?
- Reference
- Book discussions
- Collections
- Programs
- Designing information experiences
What is different in Virtual Worlds?
- Collaboration (on Steroids)
- Geography
- Immersive Education
Over 130 libraries in Second Life
Everyone can fly in the Alliance Virtual Library. The librarians help over 180 patrons a day. (2008)
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| From Computers in Libraries 2009 Conference |
Students can have research and reference questions answered through Second Life.
After the session, the Second Life librarians that were in attendance had a group debate about the importance of Second Life.
The debate was interesting. Some people were very passionate about Second Life being beneficial to the Real Library. Some people were NOT convinced that Second Life is relevant to Librarianship and real world library services.
It was interesting.
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