Fall Events

Closet organizing for avatars

Closet organizing for avatars

  Do you sometimes think “YIKES!” on logging in and seeing the humongous number of items that have accumulated in your inventory? Do you waste precious online time trying to find the...

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SLACTIONS conference: Life, Imagination and Work Using Metaverse Platforms 2010

SLACTIONS conference: Life, Imagination and Work Using Metaverse Platforms 2010

  The SLACTIONS 2010 conference will take place on the MBS (Manchester Business School) Second Life Island on November 18-19, 2010 (http://www.slactions.org).  The conference will provide an international forum for presentation...

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Check out the Coexist Group

Check out the Coexist Group

Every Thursday, the Coexist Group meets at 6 pm SL time, at Peace Park on Info Island. Topics for the remainder of September include: September 23 - Resentments -...

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Six Things You Can Do To Make SLCC 2011 Great

SLCC 2010 is just behind us, but it’s not too soon to start thinking about participating in SLCC 2011. Here are a few hints from the organizers of this...

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Trendy Topics 2010: Virtual Worlds and Libraries

Trendy Topics 2010: Virtual Worlds and Libraries

Trendy Topics (T2) is a series of online conferences, each focusing on a hot topic in the fields of librarianship and information science. TAP Information Services and the School of Library...

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Banned Book Week in Second Life, September 25-October 2, 2010

Banned Book Week in Second Life, September 25-October 2, 2010

Celebrating the Freedom to Read Banned Books The theme for this year is “Think for yourself and let others do the same” Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to...

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Fall Volunteers of the Month

Thank You, Reference Librarians

Thank You, Reference Librarians

For the first time, the September Volunteer of the Month was a group rather than an individual. The powers-that-be decided that the entire group of people who give their...

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Falling Down the Rabbit Hole

Falling Down the Rabbit Hole

  Lebachai Vesta (real life: Laura Solomon), theAugust Volunteer of the Month, likened her initiation into Second Life  to “the proverbial falling down the rabbit hole.”  As she put it, “I...

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News Items

Welcome to the Seanchai Library

 Community Virtual Library would like to welcome the Seanchai Library to Info Island International! This group has been very active in Second Life, providing 4-8...

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Virtual World Landmark Center

Virtual World Landmark Center

If one were to ask Community Virtual Library Staff what one question is asked more than any other it would be some version of “what...

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Book Reviews

A Selection from the Second Li

A Selection from the Second Life Bookshelf

Second Life, Media, and the Other Society by Phylis Johnson, Ph.D. Published by Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2010 This book examines the convergence of media in the largest residential...

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Libraries

Developing Effective Programs

Developing Effective Programs and Policies for Virtual Reference

Policies are created or updated in two different ways: Either we see a need in advance and formulate policy to fulfill the perceived need, or something occurs which spurs us...

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Humor

Guide to Good Old Fashioned Re

1. Ever noticed that you only get paper cuts on your fingers? Many librarians have discovered that if you kick books around on the floor with your feet, your hands...

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