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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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Navigating virtual environments for libraries

  • 1.  Navigating virtual environments for libraries

    Posted Jul 28, 2020 02:53 PM
    Edited by System Sep 01, 2022 03:10 PM
    With virtual environments expanding due to the pandemic, the ACRL Virtual Worlds Interest will share an interactive workshop to help learn how to hypergrid jump across immersive platforms. These environments are built on open source code from the virtual world of Second Life.  The Community Virtual Library has a Hypergrid Resource Library and a Digital Citizenship Museum in Kitely.

    WHERE: Kitely (a virtual world where you can create a free account with an avatar)
    WHEN: SUN August 16th Noon Pacific Time/ 2pm Central

    Instructions for arrival at the workshop
    After creating your avatar in Kitely, you will need to access the environment with a viewer.  Firestorm can be downloaded here to access open simulator places: https://www.firestormviewer.org/choose-your-platform/

    More information can be found in this video:  Find the CVL Hypergrid Library via a Kitely Account
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    Find the CVL Hypergrid Library via a Kitely Account
    This tutorial video shows a walk through of setting up a Kitely account and navigating the the Community Virtual Library on Cookie II.
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    Valerie Hill
    Director
    Community Virtual Library
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