Contribute your ideas for future events on Infolit iSchool, in Second Life
On Tuesday August 31 there will be a discussion in the virtual world, Second Life: Contribute your ideas for future events on Infolit iSchool (our SL island devoted to literacies and learning)When: Tuesday August 31st, 12 noon SLT (which is 8pm UK time, see http://tinyurl.com/323l83u for start time in other countries)Where: Infolit iSchool http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/127/236/22/We already have lined up for Oct/Nov 2010: talks from Alexandria Knight (Esther Grassian outside Second Life) & Adra Letov (Diane Nahl outside SL) and Sheila Yoshikawa (i.e. me) plus a reading group! But we want more! Come with...
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Information Literacy Weblog - August 30, 2010 Author: Sheila Webber
Exhibit in Second Life about the Information Literacy conference
There is an exhibit in Second Life about the conference (for which I was committee chair) Information Literacy: Context, community, culture. You can go there if you have a Second Life avatar, and if you have the Second Life browser installed on your computer. the location is: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/143/187/21/I did a very quick screencast of the exhibit: here it is:On Thursday 19th August there was a session in Second Life, in which I talked about the conference and showed people the exhibition. There were people from several different countries (e.g. Colombia, USA, UK), including one person who had...
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Information Literacy Weblog - August 20, 2010 Author: Sheila Webber
Library News & Events August 20 -26
Community Virtual Library
August 25th – CVL Book Fair Publishing Discussion
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/205/50/33
Esther Grassian (SL: Alexandria Knight) and Diane Nahl (SL: Adra Letov) on professional publishing for librarians and educators.
August 26th – Community Virtual Library’s Coexist Discussion
6 PM SLT
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/160/167/33
To vent or not to vent? What is healthier? To vent, rant, rave and get it out of your system? Or to look on the bright side, give second and third chances, and keep smiling?
CVL Book Fair Exhibits:
The Book Path
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InfoIsland.org - August 18, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
"Report from IFLA" event in Second Life on 19 August
There will be a one-hour session in Second Life, the virtual world next Thursday August 19th, starting at 12 noon Second Life time (this is the same as Pacific time in the USA, see http://tinyurl.com/2wge69r for start time in other countries. Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in Second Life) will report backgive a brief report from the World Library and Information (IFLA) main Conference, 11-15 August, and in particular report with material from the pre-conference satellite meeting 8-9th August on Information Literacy: Context Community Culture (see the conference blog: http://infolitsatellite.blogspot.com/The venue for the...
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Information Literacy Weblog - August 15, 2010 Author: Sheila Webber
Library News & Events July 30 – August 5
Community Virtual Library
Party at the Library Art Gallery on Saturday July 31 at 5:00pm SLT
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/34/64/33
We will be entertained by a DJ who knows the music we like, have another look at the magnificent paintings and sculptures by Aethan Blaisdale, enjoy refreshing snacks and champagne from the buffet and dance with old and new friends.
The Sci-fi & Fantasy Portal’s Meet the Author event presents accomplished writer– Rae Lori.
July 31st at 1 pm at the Portal.
Her novel, “The Eye of Alloria”, is set in a future where technology impacts humanity in so many wa...
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InfoIsland.org - July 28, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Experto en biblioteca 2.0, o ver pasar el cadaver de tu enemigo
EBSCO está llevando a cabo una encuesta para dar a conocer las prácticas y usos de las redes sociales por parte de las bibliotecas europeas, cuyos resultados dará a conocer en la PreIFLA del 2010 (vía @Honorio Penedés). De pronto... como que todo encaja!! La nueva directora de la Biblioteca Nacional, Glòria Pérez-Salmerón, aparece definida en la prensa "experta en biblioteca 2.0", como uno de sus grandes valores. Las webs de las bibliotecas universitarias se llenan de iconos de la web 2 y hace apenas un año, la Biblioteca de la UPC pegaba el salto y se hacia llamar Bibliotecnica 2.0.Pero no siempre ha estado tan c...
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infoesfera.com - July 20, 2010 Author: contacto at infoesfera.com (Infoesfera.com) Tags: Bibliotecas Add new tag Biblioteca 2.0 Biblosfera evidencias medición
Library News & Events – July 9 – 15, 2010
Community Virtual Library
2010
Community Virtual Library Book Fair
July 7- August 31, 2010
In July and August Community Virtual Library celebrates the book! Book Fair events for next week:
July 11th @ 6pm SLT – Dulcie Mills talking about self publishing at the Henry James House.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/216/34/33
July 14th @ 6pm SLT – Rae Larkham talking about authoring/writing
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/111/109/33
July 15th @ 6 PM SLT – HollyJean Allen leads our second summer book club discussion. The book for this session is: A Year of Cats and Dogs by...
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InfoIsland.org - July 7, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Library News and Events July 2 – 8
Community Virtual Library: Info Island, Info Island International, Imagination Island
CVL Book Fair
In July and August we celebrate books with events and exhibits! We’ve scheduled talks on publishing, author discussions, and a few surprises, so be sure to watch for more news soon!
Book Fair Opening Pool Party
July 7th at 6 PM SLT
Info Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/26/183/33
The CVL Book Fair (July-August) kicks off this week with a splash! Join us for a pool party on Info Island. The pool is here for the summer and stocked with great ideas for your summer reading. We can lounge poolside with...
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InfoIsland.org - June 30, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Children's and young people's digital literacies in virtual online spaces
There is some material for those who missed the closing seminar in the Children's and young people's digital literacies in virtual online spaces series (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and organised by researchers at Sheffield University, Sheffield Hallam University and Lancaster University). This closing event was held in Second Life (SL), the virtual world.There is a log of the text chat from the event at http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/chatlog-19-june-v1 (the presentations used voice, but there were transcribers text chatting key points for each speaker, and the text chat also reflects discuss...
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Information Literacy Weblog - June 30, 2010 Author: Sheila Webber
Library News & Events June 25 – July 1
Community Virtual Library
TX950 Pool Party Friday 6/25 at 6 PM SLT
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/26/183/33
Splash down on Info Island Friday night for our summer pool party! Dancing, swimming, 80s music, sun and fun! Bring your virtual tanning oil, your shades, your zinc oxide, and your swimmies. Contest for this one will be a little different…one male and one female winning $500L for the most outrageous (funny, zany, crazy) bathing gear.
China Cafe
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/54/178/32
We will resume the China Cafe informal lecture/storytime this Sunday
June 27th 6am ...
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InfoIsland.org - June 23, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Library News & Events June 18 – 24
Community Virtual Library
Wednesday, June 23, 5 pm SLT- Creating Simple Tools. Abbey Zenith teaches how to add textures and scripts to objects to create a poster/sign that gives notecards, landmarks, etc.; creating a dropbox to gather information from others; adding hovertext to an object.
Location: CVL Learning Lab, Info Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/110/234/32
Alexandrian Free Library: (Caledon, Winterfell, Steelhead, New Toulouse, New Babbage, Amatsu Shima, West of Ireland, Deadwood & Al Andalus)
Library Events for June 16 through June 22, 2010.
Continuing Exhibits:
Caledon Library “Bookbi...
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InfoIsland.org - June 16, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Flag Days
FLAG DAYS
During June the Special Display Room in the CVL-West Building on Info Island will feature a display on “Flags Around the World.” Links will be provided to sites with flag graphics and two vendors will be in the room offering some free flag textures. Stop by, enjoy the display and pick up some free textures. Here’s a SLURL to the location:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/84/55/35
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InfoIsland.org - June 11, 2010 Author: Rocky Tags: General flags national world
Children's and young people's digital literacies in virtual online spaces
On 19th June in Second Life, the virtual world, is the second half of the final meeting in a seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC): Children's and young people's digital literacies in virtual online spaces. The first half of the conference takes place in Sheffield, UK, and the conference continues with a free event in Second Life. Delegates will need a Second Life avatar and the SL browser installed on their computer to participate.The aim of this seminar series is to consider the digital literacy practices which take place in virtual online spaces and to explore potentialities fo...
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Information Literacy Weblog - June 9, 2010 Author: Sheila Webber
Library News & Events June 4 – June 10
Community Virtual Library
Saturday, June 5, 6 pm SLT, Female avatar presentation and performance for the male socialized typist and vice versa. Katt Thomson on the finer points. Location: CVL Learning Lab, Info Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/110/234/32
Tuesday, June 9th, 6 PM SLT – CVL Book Discussion on Info Island
HollyJean Allen will lead a book discussion of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson. This is an exciting book plucked from the NYT best sellers list to start off a summer book discussion series. Everyone is welcome to attend and discuss the book, even if you ...
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InfoIsland.org - June 2, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Information & Health Literacy events in Second Life
When: Thursday June 3rd, Where; Infolit iSchool (& tour to Tseshkovsky); in Second Life, the virtual world (you need a SL avatar and the SL browser installed to participate)- 7 am Second Life time, presentation Information Literacy for 21st Century Life- 8 am SL time reports and discussion on recent conferences; plus at- 9am SLT (en Espanol) and 12 noon SLT (in English): repeat event: Pi Illios (Universidad Puerto Rico) Literacia en Salud en Second Life (en Espanol, 9am) / Health Literacy in Second Life (in English, noon)* 7am SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/38755tv for time in other countries): presentation from Sheil...
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Information Literacy Weblog - May 31, 2010 Author: Sheila Webber
Exercise & Fitness @ Commuity Virtual Library!
If you haven’t visited the Exercise & Fitness area on Info Island, why don’t you join us for a 20 min work out session next week? Monday, May 24; Wednesday, May 26; and Friday, May 28 at 7 AM SLT we’ll meet to get moving! The area has several animations for exercise and dancing, so put your AV to work while you work out in real life.
The Exercise and Fitness area is always available – so drop by any time to get resources on a number of exercise programs and have fun while you learn.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/213/208/35
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InfoIsland.org - May 18, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: General
Library News & Events May 21-27, 2010
Community Virtual Library
Exercise & Fitness @ Community Virtual Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/212/208/35
If you haven’t visited the exercise & fitness area on Info Island, why don’t you join us for a 20 min work out session next week? Monday, May 24; Wednesday, May 26; and Friday, May 28 at 7 AM SLT we’ll meet to get moving! The area has several animations for exercise and dancing, so put your AV to work while you work out in real life.
Library Art Gallery – May 23 at 6:00pm SLT
“A Taste of Japan”, the new exhibit at the Library Art Gallery is by photog...
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InfoIsland.org - May 18, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
May 1970 – Kent State University and Jackson State College
They say that we must learn from history to prevent mistakes from being repeated. Learn more about the tragic events of 40 years ago by visiting the Kent State and Jackson State memorial on Info Island. On exhibit May 4th through 15th. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/115/142/33
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InfoIsland.org - May 5, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: General
Library News & Events May 7 – 13!
Community Virtual Library
On Tuesday, May 11th. at both 1 pm and 6:30 pm (SL times)
the Sci-fi & Fantasy Portal will have Drop-in Discussions concerning programming for the Portal.
There are changes ahead. We want to know people’s preferences.
Excellent feedback came during our April 29th discussions.
We need to hear from more people. We also need volunteers–some short term, others long term.
http://slurl.com/secondlife.com/Info%20Island/196/107/33
Teleport up to the Portal building’s entry. We’ll be inside toward back right side.
RL Librarian Chat: A monthly discussion series that features r...
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InfoIsland.org - May 5, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events General
Library News & Events April 30 – May 6
Community Virtual Library
Info Island – Library Art Gallery
Fran6 Parkin, French singer song writer, covers all styles of music, will be playing at The Library Art Gallery on Saturday May 1st at 1 PM SLT.
With this time slot we hope to attract more people from Europe.
Paintings by real life New Zealand artist Amanda Tomasoa (AmandaT Tamatzui) are still on display. make sure you see them before the next exhibition opens.
Join us at the new gallery to celebrate art and music
Tuesday, May 4, 5 pm SLT, Community Virtual Library Knowledge Share – Each month a different topic where people can come and share SL Skills...
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InfoIsland.org - April 29, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Library News & Events – April 23 – 29
Community Virtual Library
Poetry Slam and Poetry Contest on April 24th – Call for Paricipation
Teofila Matova will be hosting another exciting Poetry Slam April 24th on Info Island in celebration of National Poetry Month! The event will be April 24th at 2 PM SLT and participants will read their own works or the works of their favorite poets. In addition to the Poetry Slam, we’ve had a poetry contest at CVL and the winners are:
1st Prize – $1500 L – ReneeIlene Spiritweaver for “Tiger Eyes
2nd Prize – $1000 L – Dulcie Mills for “Virtual Friend”
3rd Prize – $500 L...
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InfoIsland.org - April 20, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Library News and Events – April 26-22
Invitation to a Panel Discussion
Have you heard about the rapidly growing popularity of virtual worlds for young people? Are you curious about the potential for virtual worlds as a medium for libraries and education?
A panel of librarians and educators will be speaking on the topic of “Adopting Virtual Worlds for Libraries and Education” at the Texas Woman’s University Creative Arts & Research Symposium in Second Life.
Location: TWU School of Library & Info Studies in Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Texas%20Womans%20University3/218/184/30/
Panel Discussion: Adopting Virtual Worlds in Libraries an...
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InfoIsland.org - April 14, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Library News & Events April 9-15th
Community Virtual Library
The Library Art Gallery is proud to present an exhibition by real life New Zealand artist Amanda Tomasoa (AmandaT Tamatzui) showing for the first time in Second Life. Join us for the opening of the new gallery and meet the artist on Saturday 10 April at 5:00pm SLT. Music will be supplied by DJ Eye Morpork and possibly by SOAR.
Dress to depict your favourite painting or artist.
Library Art Gallery @ Info Island, Info Island (34, 62, 33)
Come into Second Life on Tuesday, April 13 to hear Hypatia Dejavu, Rocky Vallejo, and Abbey Zenith discuss the new Community Virtual Library. Hypatia, Rocky and Ab...
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InfoIsland.org - April 7, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
"Report from LILAC" SL event on 8th April
At 12 noon Second Life time (8pm UK time, see http://tinyurl.com/yghsjlh for times in other parts of the world) on Thursday 8th April, in the virtual world Second Life, there will be a one hour report/discussion on the LILAC conference. This year the LILAC conference (the UK's information literacy conference) took place 29-31 March 2010(http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/). Marshall Dozier (Edinburgh University) and Vicki Cormie (St Andrews University), who both presented at LILAC this year, will give you a report from some favourite items from the conference. There will be a couple of short presentations in voice, with the...
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Information Literacy Weblog - April 7, 2010 Author: Sheila Webber
Upcoming Library Events, April 2-8, 2010
Guided tour of CVL Info Island International
Wednesday, April 7th @ 4 PM, SLT
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/120/225/33
Friday, April 2, 6 pm SLT – Griefing 101: Introduction to Bad Behavior. Hypatia Dejavu teaches how to deal with griefers or those who deliberately disrupt and deface. Location: CVL Learning Lab, Info Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/110/234/32
Alexandrian Free Library: (Caledon, Winterfell, Steelhead, New Toulouse, New Babbage, Amatsu Shima, West of Ireland, Deadwood & Al Andalus) Library Events for March 31 through April 6, 2010.
Continuing Exh...
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InfoIsland.org - March 31, 2010 Author: Abbey Tags: Events
Links for 2010-03-29 [del.icio.us]
Innovation Master Class
"Creating a Culture of Innovation in Libraries" "Innovation Masterclass" by Helene Blowers http://bit.ly/9EtaAq Wish I had been there ...
Online Social Networks Bridge Gaps for Chronically Ill - NYTimes.com
RT @nitya: Liked: Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill http://nyti.ms/boy0U4 #patientslikeme #health2.0 #socialbuddy #pewr ...
AcadiaBiol3633's yammer Bookmarks on Delicious
@digicmb Just in case you are are not familiar with internal microblogging. Some links. http://tinyurl.com/ycwxjnv
– David Kristie (hyponastic) http://twitter.com/hyponastic/statuses/112...
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DigiCMB - March 30, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
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38 Mobile (iPhone) Sites
Mobile-iPhone Optimized sites - 38 Great Design E...
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DigiCMB - March 24, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
Links for 2010-03-22 [del.icio.us]
Netvibes Appears to Be Dying
Is history going 2 repeat? Netvibes Appears 2 Be Dying & I Was Wrong; Netvibes = Not Going Down .. (RWW, March 2009 )http://bit.ly/Jmn2
Klout - Twitter Analytics - Influence Summary for Guus van den Brekel (digicmb)
Hmm, just doing my job According to @Klout, @digicmb's Twitter Influence Klout score is 38. How influential are you? http://bit.ly/5wfVoj
Europeana Semantic Search Lab - prototype search. http://bit.ly/4tel0E (via @m1ke_ellis) RT @lorcanD
New England Journal of Medicine: Physician Wellness
@kevinmd and @drval quoted in the @NEJM article "Social Media and Physicians&q...
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DigiCMB - March 24, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel
The Survey of Academic Librarians: Usefulness of Leading Internet Tools & Sites (Survey Highlights)
A new fee-based report from Primary Research. However, some interesting info from the findings is available for free.
This study presents the results of a survey of academic librarians about their use of leading internet tools and sites such as Ebay, Google, Bing, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, YouTube, secondlife, Amazon, Wikipedia, Google Books, FLickr, Yahoo Groups, Twitter and others.
Here are a Few of the Findings From the Report:
+ Librarians between the ages of 31 – 39 found Facebook the most useful Conversely, 65% of librarians over the age of 60 had little use for Facebook.
+ Librarians in special collections ...
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ResourceShelf - March 24, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Information Industry Libraries and Librarianship
Searching, shopping, sightseeing: literacies in virtual lives: SL event on 18 March
Event title: Searching, shopping, sightseeing: literacies in virtual livesThursday 18 March, UK time 8pm, Second Life Time: 1:00pm (see http://tinyurl.com/y8ghoer for times elsewhere)This is an official event in the ESRC Festival of Social Science (ESRC is the UK's funding council for social science research) - the only Festival event being held in SL!Venue: Infolit iSchool in Second Life, the virtual world: the venue is pictured here (you need a SL avatar, and the SL browser installed on your computer)http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/149/171/21/Researchers in information and digital literacies (Sheila Webber ...
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Information Literacy Weblog - March 18, 2010 Author: Sheila Webber
