| ACRL 2011 Tours SL |
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| Written by Snow Scarmon |
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The Virtual Conference, which takes place March 31 through April 1, will follow a real-time schedule of conference activities such as podcasts, activities on social networking sites such as Facebook, Flickr and YouTube, discussion boards, and daily blog posts from conference correspondents. This year’s schedule offers interactive real time events including a tour of SL libraries. On March 30 attendees will have the opportunity to meet SL Libraries and learn more about 4 SL Libraries. Tours are 45 minutes each, set to Eastern Time. 1:00 p.m. - UCLA Library Esther Grassian (SL: Alexandria Knight), Information Literacy Librarian at the UCLA College Library and co-author of Information Literacy Instruction: Theory & Practice, will present a tour of the UCLA College Library in Second Life. Grassian will talk about the library’s service plan, demonstrate classroom space with virtual world presentation technology. 2:00 p.m. - University of Hawaii Islands Diane Nahl (SL: Adra Letov), is an LIS professor at the University of Hawaii. The tour of the UH islands includes
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Hawaii/77/198/22 3:00 p.m. - Johnson & Wales University Library Barbara Jansen (SL: BarbaratheLibrarian Magic), Chief Librarian, Johnson & Wales University, Harborside, Providence RI and doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership, will lead a tour of JWU’s Second Life Library, LibGuides: Food Science, Culinary and Higher Education and online catalog. She will show their exhibit of “Cool Tools for Educators” – a collection of free tools for anyone who teaches in SL. She will address the need for scholarly writing about SL and for more educational access for higher education, and briefly share her dissertation proposal, which highlights faculty, student and mentor support practices in virtual immersive higher education. Jansen will also talk about how collaboration in virtual worlds is perfected by librarians from libraries ( private, public, academic and international) to highlight the philanthropic spirit that makes our profession so wonderful!. 5:00 p.m. - Texas Woman’s University Valerie Hill (SL: Valibrarian Gregg), is a school librarian, currently working on a PhD in Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University. Her research area is virtual worlds in education and libraries. Working with the Texas Library Association, Hill recently collaborated on an exhibit at the Community Virtual Library in Second Life entitled Virtual Texas. Virtual Texas is an example of an immersive learning environment which provided live tours to Antiquity Texas in Second Life (see the Simseeing column elsewhere in this issue). The exhibit includes virtual books, landmarks, and Texas resources.
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This year the ACRL 2011 Conference runs from March 30th through April 1st at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Philadelphia, but if you can’t or don’t want to make the trip, ACRL 2011 Virtual Conference is as near as your computer.