Virtual World Librarianship
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Diane Nahl, presentation to the Hawaii Library Association, Kaneohe, Hawaii, November 12, 2009 35 attendees including, school, public, academic and special librarians
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Virtual World Librarianship
- 1. Virtual World Librarianship in Second Life Diane Nahl Adra Letov in SL [email_address] University of Hawaii Library and Information Science Program HLA Conference November 12, 2009 NASA in SL
- 3. 100+ Active Kid Virtual Worlds
- 4. Active Virtual Worlds: Ages 10-15
- 5. Active Virtual Worlds: Ages 15-25
- 12. L I B R A R I E S
- 16. Professional Meetings and Events
- 18. The Learning Curve Orientation Walk
- 22. LIS Student Union on Info Island
- 24. LIS 694 Students Planning and Producing Professional Events for AVL, SLA and ACRL
- 25. SL Students & Librarians Learning Together
- 27. UH Island in Second Life Tech Hui Blog http://www.techhui.com/photo/albums/celebrating-university-of Malamalama http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2009/10/second-life/#avatar University of Hawaii in Second Life http://www.hawaii.edu/secondlife/ http://www.hawaii.edu/secondlife/classes/ SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Hawaii/60/203/21
Editor's Notes
- http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?cat=101 Kids, Tweens, and Teens in VWs http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?p=2722 http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?page_id=2563 Circle chart of vw participation) Virtual Worlds Management, 2008 (100+ vws for kids) JISC Serious Virtual Worlds, 2008
- World wide statistics, not US only KT&T Kids, Tweens & Teens VWs Case Study Habbo began 1999 In 5 years more than 60 million virtualized students will be in college: Ages 13-15 60+ million In 3 years more than 26 million virtualized students will be in college: Age 15 26+ million In 8 years more than 200 million virtualized students will be in college: Ages 10-13 200+ million http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?cat=101 Kids, Tweens, and Teens in VWs http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?p=2722 http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?page_id=2563 Circle chart of vw participation) What Kids Want to Do: (interactivity = engagement = more time spent inworld Social chat with friends and make new friends Playing games Relationship experience (taking care of a virtual pet) Dressing up
- IMVU, Small World, 3-D chat fewer college age students in VWs now, but this number will swell quickly over the next 3-8 years http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?cat=101 Kids, Tweens, and Teens in VWs http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?p=2722 http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?page_id=2563 Circle chart of vw participation)
- “ Standards for 3-D information and virtual worlds are being developed (Web 3D Consortium, 2008), and the 1st publicized transport of an avatar from one virtual world to another recently occurred (Reuters, 2008). Virtual worlds offer the promise of becoming a truly integrated part of the information seeking landscape.” Margaret Ostrander, 2008. “Talking, looking, flying, searching: information seeking behaviour in Second Life”Library Hi-Tech, 26(4)
- Virtual world librarianship provides significant benefits in distance learning, reaching nonusers, communicating and collaborating with international communities, recruiting students, and greater accessibility for disabled users. For librarians VWL provides opportunities for continuous professional development, research, and collaboration with faculty, students, and colleagues at a distance.
- rather than solely on recorded knowledge and standards
- Co-construction Collaborative construction
- Top: A traditional Caledon Library, the H. G. Wells Library in Caledon Bottom: The Tower of Babel in the Bibliotheque Francophone, public domain French literature, a Caledon Steampunk Library, superstructure above a Caledon library
- The Reference Desk on Info Island International (staffed 80 hours per week), the Events wall with a controllable slideshow and searchable open access databases, the teleport boards for quick hops to locales on the Info Islands
- Lori Bell is Lorelei Junot in SL
- Upper left: SJSU streaming a live talk into SL, complete with slides and interaction with the SL audience. Top middle: A research group located in four time zones, having a meeting on UH Island Top right: An information literacy week in SL planning session at the U. Sheffield Info Lit Island Lower left: The ALA SLymposium on ALA Island Lower right: A session at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) Conference
- Librarians and friends built this orientation walk especially for educators and students for self-paced instruction in the 10 basic SL skills. Often mentors are available for individual help and instruction. Located near the reference Desk staffed 80 hours a week with live reference librarian avatars.
- The course also uses a google group and google documents to do collaborative planning.
- MLIS students in LIS 677 The Human Dimension in Information Systems, Spring 2009, University of hawaii, LIS Program
- Left: LIS 694 Virtual World Librarianship, class debrief and discussion after the second professional event, a Hot Topics panel and discussion on judgment in SL. Right: A pair of students planning the SLA Buzz Session with SLA librarians and their instructor.
- Upper left: LIS 694 students and librarians participating in a book-building session, learning to make functional VW books. Upper right: Info Island auditorium, Hot Topics panelists and two student organizers. Lower left: Magic carpet ride through student work displays at San Jose State University in SL Lower right: JJ Drinkwater, Librarian of Caledon, speaking at the LIS Career Fair in SL, May 2009, produced by UH, SJSU and Simmons MLIS students.
- Sam Solomon, Peter Leong, Diane Nahl, Leon James, Jonathan Wong, UH faculty avatars working at UH Island POST building courtyard at the first celebration event, dance floor, DJ Becca Imako