Pack Your Suitcase: Creating a Professional Avatar in Wolf Territories

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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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When:  Jun 18, 2025 from 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM (PT)

VWEC and ACRL Virtual World Interest Group present

Title: Pack Your Suitcase: Creating a Professional Avatar in Wolf Territories

WHEN:  Wed June 18th 2025

Where: Use the opensim viewer to find Wolf Territories
(You can come inworld with any OS avatar such as Kitely)

ADDRESS is:  http://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/
Open the map and search for VWEC - it should show up.

Wolf Territories


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Come visit our VWEC outpost in Wolf Territories and learn to create an "avatar for education). Ambassador for VWEC:  Xenon Darrow (Virginia Dickinson) 
The Virtual Worlds Education Consortium (VWEC) shares the monthly program from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) which has the Virtual Worlds Interest Group as part of the American Library Association.  Anyone interested is welcome to attend the meetings, tours or programs.

Join the ACRL Virtual Worlds Interest Group on the 3rd WED at 9am each month at the VWEC Fireside Deck.

Contact:  Valibrarian Gregg or Roxie Neiro or Xenon Darrow

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Location

Online Instructions:
Url: https://www.wolf-grid.com/
Login: Create an avatar in Wolf Territories or grid hop over from Kitely. Lost? Join us on Discord in the VWEC in OpenSim server https://discord.gg/4NvZjsHP8Q
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Contact

Valerie Hill

valeriehill@hotmail.com