I have a job!

While this is not related to this research project, I’d like to announce – on a more personal note – that I have accepted a position at Thomson Corporation (soon to be Thomson Reuters) as a Web Producer with the corporate portal / intranet team.  As I’m wrapping up my Master’s of Library and Information [...]

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A book as an avatar

Click here to see a video of the most creative avatar I’ve ever seen.
With her permission, I’ve posted the following. What looks like a flying book is actually an avatar! The avatar-book would animate and flap her pages as shown in the video. But otherwise, she appeared as a book just laying on the [...]

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Are we all just doing the same thing?

Tom Werner writes about Second Life and learning from a corporate perspective at his Brandon Hall blog. Werner’s blog – unlike many SL-themed blogs – is a great place for the uninitiated. For example, he makes sure not to use lingo like “SL” or “rez” unless he explains what it means.
His recent post about avatar identity reminded [...]

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Literature Review Aftermath

The damage has been done. This is my couch after a marathon weekend focused on my literature review.
Originally uploaded by librariandreamer

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Report from Croatia

I’m just arriving back from Zadar, Croatia where I attended and presented a paper at BOBCATSSS 2008, an international library and information science conference. See more photos here.
The theme, “Providing Access to Information to Everyone,” drew participants from across the globe. Most attendees were European, although the U.S., South Africa, & Australia were also represented. [...]

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