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Charge: The Virtual Worlds Interest Group provides an opportunity for academic librarians with virtual environment interests and responsibilities to have a place in ACRL to network, share information, ask questions, and work on special projects, promote accessibility and provide programs relevant to academic libraries. The VW Interest Group also works to promote the various uses of virtual reality in all formats (desktop, mobile and headset) to potential and current academic librarians and to improve information literacy (metaliteracy) specifically in virtual spaces. The ACRL VWIG sponsors events, programs and meetings held mainly within the virtual world of Second Life and explores other developing Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality platforms in the evolving metaverse.
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ACRL Virtual Book Discussion

  • 1.  ACRL Virtual Book Discussion

    Posted Jul 15, 2012 02:05 PM

    You are cordially invited to a book discussion, held in Second Life, sponsored by the ACRL Virtual World Interest Group.

     Name of Event:  Book Discussion with Aaron Barlow & Robert Leston- "Beyond the Blogsphere: Information and Its Children"

     http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?isbn=9780313392870

     Where:  Community Virtual Library Auditorium on Info Island in Second Life

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/67/156/25

    When:  Sunday, July 22 @ 11am SLT (Pacific Time)

    For anyone interested in the impact of the Internet on education, society, journalism, and our lives, this book sheds light on today's digital culture.  For information professionals, the concepts presented are important and timely.  The authors compare the Internet to a "book of sand".

    Page 51 "...[the book of sand] is the Internet, but without the possibility of organization, is information but with no system (or no discernible system), the centuries old-nightmare of the librarian and, today, of every serious researcher working through the web."

    Feel free to pass this invitation along to anyone interested.  The book is a fascinating read, but it isn't necessary to have read it to participate in the book discussion.