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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 Worlds Interest Group, ACRL in SL event

  • 1.  ACRL Virtual Worlds Interest Group, ACRL in SL event

    Posted Dec 12, 2011 04:31 PM

    Beyond Second Life:  New Immersive Worlds for Educators and Librarians, presentation by Joe Cupola and Ilene Pratt
    Sunday, December 18, 11am SLT
    CVL Info Island Auditorium IN Second Life!
    http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/92/145/23

    Please join the ALA ACRL Virtual Worlds Interest Group for the December program.  Joe Floyd and Ilene Frank (SL:  Joe Cupola, Ilene Pratt) will present, in Second Life, a version of their poster session from the ALA Annual Conference last
    summer - "Beyond Second Life: New Immersive Worlds for Educators and Librarians".  They explored how librarians and educators are using Second Life, but also explored several other virtual world options, including OpenSim grids.

    If you didn't make it to ALA annual and didn't get to see the poster session, this is a great opportunity to learn about immersive virtual world options.  Get out your avatar and join us.

    Contact:  Marcia Meister, mlmeister@ucdavis.edu,

    (or Hyacinth Cortes in Second Life)

    NEW:

    The slides from the presentation can be viewed here:  (thanks Joe and Ilene!)

    http://www.slideshare.net/IleneF/beyond-second-lifeacrlfinal-version