Posted in Breakthrough moments, Gaming theory, Information seeking behavior, Libraries & SL, Virtual ethnography on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My Literature review is now complete, including an overview of four major factors I believe will heavily influence information seeking behaviors within Second Life:
Sociability: SL is social, it’s a virtual world where people love to connect
Active learning: experience is how people figure out new things in SL
User contributed content: SL residents are the architects of [...]
Posted in Libraries & SL on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Libraries can take a cue from the Library of Congress’ recent decision to showcase many of its photographs on flickr. Virtual worlds afford the same kind of opportunities, as seen in a fascinating view of cartography in Second Life, created by a private map collector. This provides a great model for libraries wanting to showcase [...]
Posted in Libraries & SL on February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Originally uploaded by librariandreamer
Posted in Libraries & SL, My Second Life presentation on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Second Life Librarians on Facebook
Library 2.0 FaceBook group
Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education & Museums on FaceBook
Second Life Librarians on Ning
SL Residents on FaceBook
In my spare time (hah!), I’m going to try and become active in at least some of these groups. I hope to use them to market my final presentation as well. Look me up [...]
Posted in Libraries & SL on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to a FaceBook message sent by the Second Life Librarians Group…
Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums
Call for Presentations & Papers
Saturday, March 8, 2008 in Second Life
Purpose of the Conference:
To provide a gathering place for librarians, information professionals, educators, museologists, and others to learn about and discuss the educational, informational, and cultural opportunities of [...]
Posted in Libraries & SL on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Stephens, Library 2.0 expert and Tame the Web blogger, is my faculty advisor for this project. I’m honored to be working with him and was excited to see he’s blogged about my research project.
Posted in Libraries & SL on January 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I constructed this research project because I desperately want to know more about people who use virtual worlds. Knowing more about the users can help librarians who are experimenting with how to provide library services and information there.
Virtual worlds present a unique opportunity for librarians to creatively apply the mandate they have to serve user [...]
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