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EventLet FREADOM Ring: Celebrate Banned Books Week on 10/1 at 4:30 PT at Banned Books Week Town Square on ALA Island (197, 53, 61)

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 10:20am

Dr. Rebecca Knuth, Professor of Library and Information Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa, recipient of the Sarah Vann Intellectual Freedom Award, and author of Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century and Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction speaks on "Silencing Books: The Suppression of Ideas and FREADOM."

Post2009 Banned Books Week Exhibits and Events on ALA Island in Second Life

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 3:20pm

2009 Banned Books Week began Saturday, September 26, and ends Saturday, October 3!

Tuesday, September 29th

PostAcademic Librarians in SL Survey -- until October 19!

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 11:01am

Group Notice From: Adra Letov (for ACRL in SL Second Life Group)

We are conducting a survey to gather information about the roles and activities of academic librarians in Second Life. If you are an academic librarian who has used Second Life, please take a few minutes to complete this brief survey:

http://u.nu/2k6a3

The survey will be available until Monday, Oct. 19. Please forward this information widely. Thank you!

EventSecond Skin in Second Life - Conversation w/Peter Brauer on 8/10 at 7 pm PT/SLT

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 3:54pm

For World2Worlds.com, W2W Group:

Join the editors of SmarterTechnology on Monday, August 10, at 7 PM Pacific/10 PM Eastern, on the web (via video and chat) or live in Second Life, for a conversation with Peter Brauer, Producer, and Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza, Director of Second Skin - a full-length feature film about online gamers that Richard Garriott (aka Lord British) calls "A superb documentary unveiling a digital subculture that has bridged the gaps of time, distance and humanity."

SmarterTechnology 1, SmarterTechnology 1 (230, 98, 33)

EventDiscover Your Inner Therapy Dog Tonight , 8/10, at 6 pm Second Life Time/Pacific Time

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 3:50pm

From Librarians of Second Life Group:

Join us for an hour of storytelling as Jenaia Morane and Marty Snowpaw (founders of The Virtual Worlds Story Project) tell us the hilarious and heartwarming tale of how Jenaia became a therapy dog and took the Reluctant Quester (Marty) under her wing....errrr paw.

The evening will include readings from both Cicerone Destiny (Jenaia's therapy dog persona) and the Reluctant Quester's journals as well as a short writing exercise designed to let you experience a little dog therapy of your own ;-)

PostFYI: Community Colleges in Second Life (CCSL) Group -- Latest message from Pip

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 5:11pm

I'm happy to announce that the CCSL Center is again open. Please check out the "landmark trees" and use this area as a CC gathering place. You can rez here. Let me know if you have comments or questions.

Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks

Community Colleges in SL, College of DuPage (216, 207, 23)

Community Colleges in SL is owned by Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks
http://slurl.com/secondlife/College%20of%20DuPage/224/223/25

FYI (from ALALibraryVal Miles):

PostRezLibris releases August 2009 Issue

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 11:23am

RezLibris releases August 2009 Issue
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Vienna James

DATE: August 3, 2009
EMAIL: rezlibris at gmail.com

RezLibris Magazine releases August 2009 Issue

RezLibris is proud to announce the release of a new issue available at: http://www.rezlibris.com

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:

PostFYI: Wine Library open on Cybrary City II

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 11:17am

Wine Library open on Cybrary City II

Saturday, 01 Aug 2009 03:32:55 GMT

Wine Library , Cybrary City II (166, 159, 22) -- http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City%20II/166/159/22

PostHear excerpt from The Time Traveler's Wife: Unabridged Edition Audiobook on ALA Island in Second Life®

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 9:54am

CHICAGO – ALA Island, the Second Life® (SL) virtual world presence of the American Library Association (ALA), has been granted permission by the HighBridge Company to make a six-minute excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Wife: Unabridged Edition audiobook available to its avatar visitors.

PostTracing the evolution of the ACRL Virtual Worlds Interest Group from the ACRL Second Life Task Force

by Valerie Hawkins (staff) on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 10:11am

See the June 23, 2009 post in ACRL Board of Directors (Association of College and Research Libraries) from Katie Coombes, UPDATED Board II Agenda and Documents now available, which includes the following pertinent documents as PDF file attachments:

Doc 31.0 ACRL Second Life Task Force Final Report 2009.pdf - 27.6 KB