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Written by Snow Scarmon
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 The Annual Linden Award recognizes the individual or team with the most innovative in-world project that improves the way people work, learn, and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world.
In 2009 co-winners Studio Wikitecture and Virtual Ability shared the $10,000 prize. In January the award program started with more than 130 entries; this was narrowed to ten by May 21 st, with the final winner announced June 1, 2010. For 2010 the prize goes to The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop (the SLurl is noted below). Launched in 2007, The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop entered SL with plans for developing faster and more effective collaborative exhibits for museums worldwide through the use of an online platform. In 2009 Tech Virtual expanded their core concept to extend beyond prototype exhibits to virtual prototyping of an entire museum gallery, and to share that with stakeholders such as administrators, curators, exhibit designers, and sponsors. This project is creating an “open source” collection of science and innovation-based design concepts that can be used by institutions all over the world. Through The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, designers and educators from a diverse and international professional community can share input and resources. The Tech Virtual also began to prototype and test a new and participatory exhibition, called Expolab, to institutions such as Citilab Cornella, the Science Centre Singapore, and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History, which built Places of Invention.
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Written by Snow Scarmon
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Tags: News You no longer have patrons who smell bad, you now have odor-retentive clients.
The library visitor is not staggering drunk, he is fermentally mobilised.
You no longer have gum stuck to the bottoms of chairs and tables, you now have a microbiological sanctuary construct.
You are not wearing library shoes, you are challenging the accepted mores of the fashionistas.
You are not wearing your hair in a bun, you have a retrograde coiffure.
You no longer have missing books, you now have a resource-presence deficit.
Your patrons don't have anything overdue, they are enjoying non-sanctioned access.
You are no longer a children's librarian, you are now a generationally-different bridging facilitator.
You don't have any thefts, you are experiencing security diminutions.
No-one has cut out articles/pictures/material from your periodicals, you have had a divergence of perspective with regard to micro-resource location.
The young patron didn't just do a poo-poo on the carpet, there has been an unexpected biological elimination.
Children are not running wild in the library, they are adjusting their metabolic balances.
The book has not been vandalised, it has been enhanced by a contemporary expression of angst.
Your library system server has not just crashed, you have experienced a technological aberration.
The photocopier has not run out of paper, it is consumable-depleted.
The garbage bin is not on fire, you have a non-scheduled conflagration.
You have not been sworn at, you heard a base expression of fulmination.
You are not being surly, you are exercising your rights to be judiciously saturnine.
You have not been affected by staffing cuts, you have moved into a corporate-lite modality.
The teenagers are not making out behind the stacks, they are doing research. (At least, that's what they said.)
You don't have a budget crisis. No, wait a minute ... yes, you do.
Amanda Credaro © 2004
Credaro,A.B.(2004). Politically Correct Library Terms for the 21st Century. Warrior Librarian Weekly [online]
http://warriorlibrarian.com/LIBLAUGHS/politicallycorrect.html
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