School Libraries around the world

You are invited to attend an international information literacy poster session in

the 3D virtual world of Second Life (SL), scheduled for Tuesday, May 1, 2012,

1:30-5 pm SLT/Pacific Time.

Posters have been mounted on the Community Virtual Library area (Info Island),

the Stanford University Library island, and the University of Hawaii island.

This poster session supports an assignment for the MLIS students in my UCLA iSchool

Information Literacy course. See below for detailed information regarding the poster

sessions and their location in SL, as well as the student assignment.

Note re SL Participation: In order to attend, you need to obtain a Basic Second Life account (free):

secondlife.com You will also need to download the Second Life viewer:

http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/?lang=en-US

OR another virtual worlds viewer--e.g., Phoenix or Firestorm: http://www.phoenixviewer.com/

Your computer will need to meet the system requirements in order to run any of these

viewers: http://secondlife.com/support/system-requirements/?lang=en-US

Please let me know if you have any questions or need help with SL. I hope to see you

there!

Best,

Esther/Alexandria

Information Literacy Poster Session - UCLA IS448

1 May 2012,

1:30 - 5 pm SLT/PT

Esther Grassian, Adjunct Lecturer (SL: Alexandria Knight)

estherg@ucla.edu

Many thanks to librarians from around the world who have volunteered to create

posters in SL regarding their information literacy (IL) programs. Thanks, too,

to Abby Zenith on behalf of the Community Virtual Library (CVL), as well as Adra

Letov (University of Hawaii) and Artemis Jacks (Stanford University Library) for

kindly agreeing to provide space for these posters on their islands.

Anyone interested may visit the posters at the locations listed below. With the

permission of those who created them, the posters will remain at these locations

until the end of May 2012.

Student teams:

Please visit each of the posters by clicking on the landmarks (LMs) below.

Learn about each poster's IL programs, and then select 2 posters for your

assignment. As a reminder, each team will have 15-30 min. to prepare a 5-min.

text chat or voice chat presentation on the 2 posters you have selected. Your

presentation should briefly describe the programs and answer two questions:

What did you like? and How would you do it differently?

POSTER SESSIONS & LOCATIONS

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM

UH: Poster 1: 70,204,21

http://slurl.com/secondlife/University

of Hawaii/70/204/21/

Carson-Newman College

(Stephens-Burnett Memorial Library)

1634 Russell Avenue

Jefferson City, TN 37760

http://www.cn.edu/academics/resources/library

SL name: Phaedra Edelweiss

Reference and Instruction Librarian

AND

SL name: Luna1832 Resident

Instructional Services Librarian

UH: Poster 2: 130,175,21

http://slurl.com/secondlife/University

of Hawaii/130/175/21/

Ethridge Elementary School

Lewisville Independent

School District

6001 Ethridge

The Colony, TX 75056

Phone: 469-713-5954

Fax: 972-350-9036

http://ethridge.lisd.net/

SL name: Valibrarian Gregg

In addition to my role as librarian,I am

webmaster for my school.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

SU: Poster 1: 161,227,33

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stanford

University Libraries/161/227/33/

American International College

1000 State Street

Springfield, MA 01109

SL name: Kalania Bookmite Information Literacy and Interim Distance Education Librarian

SU: Poster 2: 185,57,25

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stanford

University Libraries/185/57/33/

Florida International University

GL 234B/GL 214C

11200 SW 8th St.

Miami, FL 33199

305.348.3137

305.348.2416

SL name: aiuliano

International Relations Librarian

[Special Instructions for SU Poster 2: You will arrive at the Stanford North Entrance.

Turn around to your right. Walk over to the Teleport Board with the red sign and map.

Right-click on #11 (Dome) and select Teleport. Once you arrive, turn to your left to see the poster.]

SU: Poster 3: 32,48,21

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stanford

University Libraries/32/48/21/

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

SL name: Mariae Habana

Deputy Director

Library System

http://www.sibuc.cl

[Special Instructions for SU Poster 3: You will arrive at the Stanford North Entrance.

Turn around to your right. Walk over to the Teleport Board with the red sign

and map. Right-click on #15 (Beach) and select Teleport.]

COMMUNITY VIRTUAL LIBRARY

CVL: Poster 1: 54,175,23

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info

Island/54/175/23/

Polotsk State University Library

Polotsk, Belarus

SL name: Polotsk

Bibliographer

Reference and Information Department

Polotsk State University research library

CVL: Poster 2: 101,183,23

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info

Island/101/183/23/

The Scripps Research Institute

Kresge Library, 400 S

10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd.

La Jolla, CA 92037

858-784-8705

SL name:

DovelynWood

--

Esther Grassian, MLS

Adjunct Lecturer

UCLA Information Studies Department & Distinguished Librarian

Information Literacy Librarian, Retired

(Formerly, UCLA College Library)

estherg@ucla.edu

esthergrassian@gmail.com

Twitter: estherg

SL: Alexandria Knight

https://sites.google.com/site/esthergrassian/

https://sites.google.com/site/teachinfolit/

Pre-announcement

The European Conference on Information Literacy (or ECIL), organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University and Department of Information and Communication Sciences of Zagreb University, will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 23-25 October 2013.

1st Call for Papers: May 2012.

Stay Tuned!

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