Flying Librarians of Oz: What's all the fuss about Second Life and what's it got to do with libraries?

Flying Librarians of Oz What’s all the fuss about Second Life and what’s it got to do with libraries? Kathryn Greenhill February 2007 http://librariansmatter.com Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Flying Librarians of Oz These slides are at: http://slideshare.net Search: sirexkat After 15 Feb 2006 Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Outline
What is Second Life ?
Library services in Second Life
Advantages to Librarians
Live demonstration
Questions and discussion

Not covered
Found elsewhere
Technical setup
The digital divide and SL
Time will tell
Benefits to our users
Long term usefulness

What is Second Life ?
A 3D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents
Islands * Objects
Buildings * Avatars

Accessing Second Life
Free
http://secondlife.com
System specifications
Family name. First name
Download client
Kathryn Greehill. http:librariansmatter.com Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Isn’t it just a game ?
YES
Look and feel of gaming interface.
- Avatars, inventories, manipulate environment
Gamers are used to relating to information on their PCs in this way
Playful behaviour
NO
No rules, objectives, win/lose, points, strategy.
Like our library sites – win/lose isn’t the objective
Sleaze, porn, gambling and “how to make a fast buck” are there too

It’s all about people
APPEARANCES
Second Life – a lot of empty buildings?
Myspace - a bunch of noisy, badly designed web pages?
UNSEEN
The interactions they facilitate gives them life

Who is in Second Life ?
>3 million registered
15K online at once
Individuals
Organisations
Companies
Universities
Australians

What do you do in Second Life ?
Avatars
Talk – chat, IM and SecondTalk (skype based)
Modify your avatar
Walk, fly or teleport around
Objects
Build
Upload creations
Buy, sell and trade objects
Animate objects with scripts
Environment
Listen to podcasts
View movies
Join groups and network

Library Services in Second Life Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

What do libraries do ?
Reference
Desk is staffed
Uses Questionpoint chat reference software
Email a librarian service
Outreach programs
Writers’ talks
Visits from historical figures
Book discussions
Collections
External links
Web tools accessed within SL
Items especially made for SL (eg. Aetheric books)
Database trials
Classes and seminars
About using SL tools
For librarians

Who Pays ?
Sponsership
Talis
Cybrary City
SIRSI/Dynix
Info Island and Teen Info Island
Private sponsors
other islands
Administration
Alliance Library System
Eye4You Alliance
administers library on Teen Grid
Library services
Librarians – some paid, some unpaid.
time. Each Cybrary City library volunteers 2 hrs per week

Library Services in Second Life
Info Island 1
Info Island 2
Edu Island
Caledon Library
Healthinfo Island
Imagination Island – Rachelville
ALA Arts Island
Cybrary City 1
Cybrary City 2

Info Island 1 Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Info Island 2 Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

EduIsland Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Caledon Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Healthinfo Island Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Imagination Island - Rachelville .. a magical place with displays, environments, and experiments relating to children’s literature Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

NEW
Cybrary City 2
USD300 - 500 for library land
ALA/Arts Island

Cybrary City Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Administrative Offices
ALA Washington office
Australian Libraries Building
Claremont Colleges Digital Library
Eye4You Teen Library Services
Johnson & Wales University Library
Librarian Conference Center
Librarium & Philosopher's club
McMaster University Library
Normal Public Library
Nova Southeastern University Law Library
Patent Searches
Selfdescription.org
Society Hill, South Carolina Public Library
St. Louis County Library
State Library of Kansas
Talis Building
Teen Educators in SL
University of Washington
University of Montevallo
University of Illinois
University of South Florida Library
TX-950 club
UIC Library of Health Sciences
UCLA
Shopfronts for individuals too.

Australian Libraries Building
How it happened.
What’s there.
What we’ve been doing.

Advantages for librarians Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

The Interface
Prototype of VR
Free
We have access now
Lots of people there

Personal advantages
Rapid increase of IT skills * Networking
Fun and playfulness * Collaboration
Creative expression * Information sharing

Let’s play….. Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Join in…..
Subscribe to a blog:
http://infoisland.org
http://virtual.librariesinteract.info
Join the Second Life Librarians’ google group
http://groups.google.com/group/alliancesecondlife
Enter Second Life
Visit the Australian Library or Info Island.
Use the avatar list on VLINT to search for Australian Library avatars and IM them or add them as a friend. My avatar is Emerald Dumont.

Contact me.
Kathryn Greenhill
Second life name: Emerald Dumont
http://librariansmatter.com
[email_address]
Skype: sirexkat

EXTRA SLIDES Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

What do other SL Librarians think ?
“ I’m a solo librarian…I don’t have a lot of contact with other librarians…In SL I suddenly have contact with scores of librarians”
Rosamarita Kilara. Menlo Park, California.
“ ..collaborate in ways not otherwise possible. What we make of it is entirely up to us. The sky is the limit!” Willow Kindley. St Louis County Library. Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

What do other SL librarians think?
“ I think trying to learn building and scripting helps me build problem solving skills and probably has given me new appreciation for the work programmers do”
Wellendorf Chihuly, University of Montevello, Alabama
“ A place where I can begin to envision some of the “environments” that I think we all long for to display our digital collections” Jillianna Suisei, Hurst Associates, New Jersey Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

“ Smiling at the Yellow Brick Road…[connecting Kansas State Library and the Australian (Oz) library] ….connections like this… have made my real life world much smaller”
Rocky Vallejo, State Library of Kansas
“ ..faster/stronger bonds….I can invite SL residents to view my house and thus allow them more insight into my life than months of emails would allow.” Pam Ribble, John Moores University, Liverpool Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

“… enjoyed a new environment for helping people with their information needs”
Takver Twin, Bradley University Library
“ SL has provided a link to more resources, more concepts, more colleagues in the profession to share and network with than I could have imagined possible” Johan Althouse, Society Hill Library, South Carolina Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

“ Some forecasters see the [SL] environment as the up and coming thing for simulations, collaborating etc…SL is a chance to try out that kind of environment for free!”
Ilene Pratt, University of Southern Florida
“ [if used for online reference] – privacy, less fear of sounding stupid, can multitask without offending the librarian” Brian Garfield, Case Western Reserve University Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

“ ..opportunity to meet so many other librarians and library students from around the world and in every type of librarianship”
Abbey Zenith, Alliance Library System
“… working with people who have great ideas and want to implement them … working on the future of libraries…” Lorelei Junot, Alliance Library System Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Backup tour of Australian Libraries Building - in case of technical problems Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

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