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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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Seeking colleagues interested in VR at ALA conference

  • 1.  Seeking colleagues interested in VR at ALA conference

    Posted Jun 09, 2025 11:12 AM
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    Good afternoon,  I will be attending the ALA conference later this month with the objective of networking and making new connections with librarians who would be interested in opportunities for VR use by their patrons in their library spaces. Our NSF infrastructure grant supports our development of a Virtual Reality research platform, by which researchers can collect experiment data from participants remotely. Thus participants don't have to come in person into a lab. Many participants can participate from their homes. However, folks who do not own a VR headset who want to participate may check out a headset from their library or maker space, or, can come to a library in person to do the experiment. We want to have discussions with librarians and get input on how best to execute this. We will be in the exhibit hall (flyer attached) but I would love to have some 1 on 1 meetings (lunch? dinner?) with those especially interested. I look forward to meeting with you!

    Ali

    ahaskins@ucf.edu



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    Ali Haskins Lisle
    University of Central Florida
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