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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 PAPER for the 5th. Congress of Information Studies

  • 1.  CALL FOR PAPER for the 5th. Congress of Information Studies

    Posted Jun 16, 2022 05:33 PM
    The Congress coordinators invite researchers, teachers and professionals linked to the virtual communities study, to submit session proposals for the 5th Congress of Information Studies.

    THEME:  Virtual communities in contemporary society

    OBJECTIVE: 
    To know about current research on virtual communities in order to create a dialogue space between the different disciplines, theories and methodologies from which to approach this object of study. To recover empirical research experiences in studying these communities and critically analyse the dominant conceptual frameworks in their study. To contribute to the identification of issues that require greater academic attention.

    MORE INFORMATION: https://iibi.unam.mx/f/CEI2022_Convocatoria_Esp_Ing.pdf

    All the best,

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    IIBI UNAM
    Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de la Información
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