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Discussions the possibilities and options for librarians in SL
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Alice Ruleman
Avatar: Nevada Mimulus
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
University of Central Missouri
Revised 2011
I ain‟t got time for no foolishness
Second Life is a virtual world created by Linden Labs in 2003.
You can do almost everything in Second Life (SL) that you can in Real Life (RL)
Need to have an avatar
Start with basic
“default” avatar
Make it “you”
BI & Information Literacy
Reference Desk/Chat
Access to e-books
Access to databases
Book discussions & programs
Embedded librarians
Collaboration
Virtual libraries, real librarians
F2F
Chat
Staffed by volunteers
65-70 hours week
IM, chat or voice
Questions mostly related to SL
Differences – Patrons less patient
Want instant answers
More diverse
per Bell, Pope and Peters (2008)
2 librarians & a patron
Patrons SL Dir SL Ref RL Dir RL Ref Voice Non-
Eng
2010 2306 606 898 66 163 6 166
2009 3373 2184 1723 257 216 57 89
2008 9298 2714 2108 445 477 80 146
2007 7662 2201 2487 244 332 55 45
http://sites.google.com/site/sllvrwiki/index/desk-operation/statistics
Center for
Information
Literacy Research
Infolit iSchool
Resources for
librarians in SL
Based at the
Department of
Information Studies,
University of
Sheffield, UK.
UCM
Eng 1030
English Comp II
Short
bi-weekly
instruction
E-books
Databases
Any e-resources
Reader‟s Garden
Seanchai Library
Alexandrian Free
Library
Community Virtual
Library events
Jan-Mar 2011
About 50 events per
month
Music at the Jazz Cat
SL Instruction
Book readings
http://sites.google.com/site/sllvrwiki/index/events
Part of Information
Archipelago
Built by Alliance
Virtual Library
16th Century -
Tudor
Period costume
Globe theatre
UCM
experience
Eng 1030
English
Comp II
A & S 1244
Digital
Africana
Studies
Chipmonkey Flacks
With colleagues
across the globe
LIS orientation –
“friend” each other
From blog entry –
meet people from
National Library of
Medicine, CDC, NIH,
IBM – would this
happen in real life?
Georgia Institute of Technology
St Catherine‟s Monastery
Stanford
University College Dublin
Olathe Public Library
Bavarian State Library
Cleveland Public Library
Steelhead Public Library
Directory of Libraries in SL
Alliance Virtual Library
ALA
Center for Information Literacy Research
Nebraska Library Commission
California Library Association
Michigan Library Association
Association of Rural and Small Libraries
SLA
SJUS SLIS
LIS Student Union
Dominican University Graduate School of LIS
University of South Florida - SLIS
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champlain Graduate School of LIS
Graduate School of Information Science and Technologies – Puerto Rico
University of Washington
Exhibits
Immersive learning
environments
Performances
Entertainment
Original SL Art
RL copies
Dresden Art
Museum
Svarga
NOAA
Paris 1900
Renaissance England
Sistine Chapel
Virtual classrooms
Bryan Carter aka Bryan
Mnemonic
Virtual Harlem
Sorbonne
Conference
Distance education
More “personal”
interactions
Can do things that
you can‟t in
physical world
Surgery
ER
New skills
Can SL be better than RL for meetings?
Use both voice & chat
All have input
Not interrupting each other
Can leave the
“meeting”
In your pj‟s!
Crossing time
zones
Dockery
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
UCM‟s Island
JCK Library
Virtual classroom
Reference avatar
BI classroom
Sand pile
Streaming Audio & Video
October „08 - Kirkpatrick Performance Series
March „09 - ALA /Children‟s Literature authors
Learn technology skills Photoshop, streaming
video, audio, 3D modeling, spatial reasoning, geometry
Network
Job skills
Be ready for the upcoming generation used to virtual worlds
Is any technology here to stay?
Gophers, telnets, kermits, dial-up
What about Facebook, Twitter, Meebo?
Is that a good reason not to?
Jumping off spot
“The virtual world technology we are seeing right now is in such an early and emerging phase that it is impossible to predict what form it might take in the future.”
Chris Collins
I still remember a librarian objecting to my continuing to lead an Internet Training Group at UCLA when the web was new. She held up and pointed to a 1995 article called “Web, Shmeb” and told me that the Web couldn‟t last, as the author of that article had stated. Of course it has, and quite marvelously.
Now, if you‟re wondering why Second Life, I‟d like to say that, IMHO, it‟s not Second Life itself that‟s important, though it‟s an incredibly creative enterprise. Actually, SL‟s significance is as one of the newer forms of technology we should be exploring so that we’ll be primed and ready, if not eager, for the next form of technology, and the next one after that.
Second Life Blog (SLIS21), Dec 25 2007 http://senna.sjsu.edu/lmain/wpress/wordpress/?p=58
We aren‟t all children‟s librarians either
Consider it an experiment, research & experience
Does your campus have an island?
You want to be involved but you campus isn‟t…
Volunteer
Enter through
NMC
ISTE
More education
oriented
Visit interesting
places
Visit libraries &
library islands
Join in-world
library groups
Join SL lists
LIS
SLRL
Bell, Pope, K. & Peters, T. (2008, May). The Universal Library in a Virtual Universe Second Life and a Second Chance for Librarians? Searcher, 16(5):26-9, 60-1.
Second Life Blog (SLIS21), Dec 25 2007 http://senna.sjsu.edu/lmain/wpress/wordpress/?p=58
SLLVR Wikihttp://sites.google.com/site/sllvrwiki/index
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