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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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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

  • 1.  CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

    Posted Jun 13, 2023 09:29 AM

    Librarians, Professors, Research Scholars, Practitioners, we are in the process of editing a forthcoming publication entitled Handbook of Research on Innovative Approaches to Information Technology in Library and Information Science to be published by IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research. I would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to submit your proposal for consideration of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter.

    Please visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6609 for more details regarding this publication and to submit your work. If you have a full chapter of at least 7200 words and no more than 10,000 words than use this link https://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=187b8f57-530f-4298-8b71-d49ce213a5b1

     You can also find detailed manuscript formatting and submission guidelines at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the editors.  

    Topics can include the following.

    library & information science research, information technology, metaverse, machine learning, data science, robotics  automation, metadata, data &visualization research, ,, information management,

    Thank you very much for your consideration of this invitation, and hope to hear from you by July 26, 2023

    Sincerely

    Editor-in-Chief, Barbara Holland

    Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3729-0147

     barland1@gmail.com

     



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    Barbara Holland- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3729-0147
    barland1@gmail.com
    Sr Librarian /Retired
    Ms/ She/ Her/Hers
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