Second Life 101

Laura Solomon / Lebachai Vesta Library Services Manager OPLIN [email_address] 101

Today we’ll cover…

Today we’ll cover…
What is Second Life?
What does it take to run?
The SLL Project
Things to think about
Good and bad reasons to go inworld

What is Second Life ? A 3D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents

Virtual world, real dollars

What Second Life isn’t game

What can you do in Second Life?

http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =b72CvvMuD6Q

Webkinz it’s not

Any big names in Second Life?
Toyota
Sun Microsystems
CNN
Reuters
CNET
NPR
Adidas
Wired
NASA
Kraft
SirsiDynix
Countless colleges & universities
Many, many more…

Anyone we know?
Political candidates
Big musical names
Cleveland’s {red} an orchestra

American Library Association

Ohio University

Case Western Reserve Library

Appearances can be deceiving

What does it take to run?
Broadband connections
800MHz Pentium III or Athlon, or better processor
512M memory (1G recommended)
Video/graphics card:
nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better
OR
ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better

Notes
SL is like many pieces of software; not designed for public computing environments
Constant (mandatory!) updates
Requires significant time investment

Vision of SLL
“ To serve the citizens of an online world and build community using traditional and non-traditional library services and serving as a model for the twenty-first century library to determine how virtual library services will affect traditional libraries . “

Why is ALS here?
Explore providing library services in a virtual world
Examine how libraries will remain relevant when more business & education activities take place in virtual worlds
Learn what kind of library services are desired in virtual space

What happens at SLL?

Renaissance island

Land of Lincoln

Chicago Public Schools

San Jose’ State University SLIS

Cleveland Public Library

What’s worked?

Things to consider

The learning curve

Lag and bugs (not a bug)

Controversy over SL

SL is not “Field of Dreams”

Bad reasons to come to SL
“ It’s where the users are”
“ It’s where ______ is”
“ It’s Library 2.0”
“ It’s easy to do”
“ We need to have a SL virtual branch”

What does your library bring to the table?

So why come to SL?
Understand the gamer and their environment
Breakdown of professional isolation
It’s free, we can access it now and it has first mover advantages
Collaboration
Teaching flexibility

Want to learn more?
IM me inworld (I’m Lebachai Vesta)
Half-day workshop at OhioNet on July 8
Check out www.infoisland.org and www.secondlife.com

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