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After a few false starts, the rebuilding of Eye4You Island is finally underway. For those of you who are not familiar with Eye4You, it is an island that is owned by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, under the management of Saryn Ey...
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Text and Photo by VERDE OTAARED
On August 2, 2006, Carolina Keats was 'born' into Second Life. Keats is Carol Perryman's avatar, and her 'birth' was the start of Perryman's nearly three years’ experience of providing health information and support ...
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Meet Azwaldo Villota in this in-depth interview with Eirene Janus. Make sure to keep up with Azwaldo's adventures in SL by visiting his blog edParadigm
Photo by Azwaldo Villota.
Podcast recorded and produced by Pia Klaar
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by Eirene Janus
April 1, 20097:00 AM: Woke up, rolled over and fired up the Mac to check my email , and fortunately, there were only a couple of hundred of em, so should take me an hour. But coffee first!7:15: Delete, delete, delete, save, save, ...
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Did you ever wonder where HVX Silverstar got her name? As you are undoubtedly aware, our Volunteer of the Month for March is an outstanding photographer. HVX is her favourite camera, the Panasonic AG-HVX200. If you’ve seen her photography and her ...
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By Eirene Janus
Ever since Philip Rosedale announced that
Generally, I think that the future of Second Life needs to be one where people of all ages can use Second Life together, and that's the direction that we're taking in our planning and our wor...
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By LORELEI JUNOT
Almost three years ago, in April 2006, the Alliance Virtual Library(AVL), at that time the Second Life Library 2.0, opened in a small rented building on the mainland. Three years later, thanks to the work of hundreds of volunteers fr...
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Au, Wagner James. The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World. New York: Collins, 2008 (Kindle edition).
Guest, Tim. Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds. New York: Random House, 2008 (Kindle edition).
By STOLVANO BARBOSA (Steven R....
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Karuna Island, a sim built through funds from the US National Library of Medicine granted to the Alliance Library System to provide HIV/AIDS education and support in Second Life, opened on World AIDS Day, December 1st, 2008. The day long celebration dur...
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By VICTORIA A. PETERSEN
Taking ‘green’ to a new level, the Sustainable Living Library is the first library in Second Life devoted to expanding knowledge about sustainability. Sustainable living is not only about reducing the carbon footprint of man...
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by PIA KLAAR and GENTLE HERON
Second Life is a world in which people have a chance to explore, meet others, share ideas, shop, dance, and be free. For many, it is a world where everyday boundaries cease to exist. Such is the world also created at Virtu...
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{rokbox title=|Election exhibit on InfoIsland :: Photo by VERDE OTAARED| 550 238}images/stories/sections/librarianship/Nov2008/voter/election550_238.jpg {/rokbox} We can only hope that by the time you are reading this, the U.S. national elections a...
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Graphic by VERDE OTAARED. Composite image of the cover of "Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries" with Abbey Zenith (left) and Lorelie Junot (right).
When Lori Bell (SL Lorelei Junot) and Rhonda B. Trueman (SL Abbey Zenith) first rezzed thei...
