Info Island this week

Caledon
MARCH 9, 6:30 PM SLT
The Caledon branch library and the Clan of Seafarers and Storytellers co-sponsors an evening of story-telling at The Falling Anvil Public House in Caledon Tammrannoch. The theme for this session is Tales of Love…we encourage all fabulists, storytellers, griots, bards, spinners of yarns, and accomplished liars to come and share tales of love, whether touching or tragic, whether of love that overcomes mighty obstacles, of love gone wrong, or of love gone off to the kitchen to eat cold pizza and read the funnr papers. Likewise, all folk who enjoy story-telling are invited to come share the good times. Contact Aldo Stern or JJ Drinkwater for more information http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Tamrannoch/233/113/23/

MARCH 11TH, 2PM SLT
Caledon branch Library Book Discussion for March This month’s book is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as translated by Edward Fitzgerald. The discussion will take place at the Caledon Branch Library on Caledon VictoriaCity, and will be aided and abetted by Mr Drinkwater. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/66/190 Copies of the work may be found at the library, along with an exhibit on the poem, and a collection of links to help the interested or curious reader find out more about Khayyam, Fitzgerald, and this remarkable work. Aetheric opies may also be found by means of the following incantations:
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/omar_khayyam/o54r/
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/FitRuba.html
For more information contact JJ Drinkwater.

New Interest Group
Several of us employed in federal departments and agencies have mused about the particular legal and regulatory challenges under which federal workers/institutions might be required to work while in Second Life. We have no idea, however, how many federal representatives there are in SL.

If you work for a federal institution (in any country) and are working **officially** on behalf of that institution within Second Life, we would be interested in hearing from you. We have considered raising a group, if numbers and interest warrant, to list/discuss the questions we must deal with as federal agents acting within a virtual environment. We know that the laws and regulations that govern our activities vary amongst jurisdictions worldwide; but many of our concerns will be similar.

Please get in touch with Dinnie at blacknus at gmail.com to indicate your interest in coming together with other federal employees to discuss some of the particular constraints we work with and solutions we might consider. Also, please let me know your time zone and whether you can meet in-world mornings, afternoons or evenings … and on weekdays or weekends … so we can try to find some mutually-acceptable meeting time.

SciFi and Fantasy Portal
SUNDAY, MARCH 11th, NOON SLT at INFO ISLAND OPEN AIR AUDITORIUM
Electric Words: Now Baen ebook and independent podcast authors, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are known around the world for paper editions of their science fiction. The writers will appear at Second Life Library at Noon PST Sunday March 11 to discuss the whys behind their first, second, and third forays into electronic media, and how demand has changed since they started publishing BPLAN Virtuals Disk- Top ebooks in the late 1980s. Contact Pam Ribble for more information.

Teen Tech Week Events - Outdoor auditorium at Info Island I

Monday March 5, 1pm PST

• Teens, Publishing, and Technology
  Facilitator-Carlie Webber, Young Adult Services Coordinator, Bergen County
• Cooperative Library System, Hackensack, New Jersey
  Panelists: Jason Weed Abrams, Lauren Myracle Author, Anastasia GoodsteinAuthor and YPulse blogger

Thursday, March 5, 4pm PST

• Game Design
  Facilitator-Jami Schwarzwalder
  Panelists-Craig Davis, Youth Digital Arts Cybercenter and Jake Theis, Wizards of the Coast

YALSA’s Teen Tech Week in Second Life: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, March 7 at 6 pm PST
Cybrary City Open Air Arena

Organized by Chicago Public Schools Department of Libraries & Information Service
Moderator: Lisa Perez, Area Library Coordinator (AV=ElaineTulip)
Co-Moderator: Jennifer Ragan-Fore (AV=Kittygloom Cassady)
* IM Kittygloom with questions during presentation

• Panelists:
  Christie Thomas, University of Chicago eCUIP Program (AV=Corinne Fleury)
  http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu
• Angela Semifero, Marshall District Library (AV=Semife Roar)
  http://marshalldistrictlibrary.org
• Kelly Czarnecki, Teen Librarian at ImaginOn, the Public Library of
  Charlotte & Mecklenburg Co NC (AV=BlueWings Hayek)
  http://www.plcmc.org
• Peggy Sheehy, Suffern Middle School (AV=Maggie Marot)
  http://rampoislands.blogspot.com

Agenda (in SL time)

6:00 Welcome and overview of Teen Tech Week
6:05 Corinne Fleury - How eCUIP Supports Teens’ Use of Technology
6:15 Semife Roar - Gaming for Teens in the Library
6:25 BlueWings Hayek - Overview of Eye4You Alliance Island on the Teen Grid
6:35 Maggie Marat - Overview of Ramapo Islands on the Teen Grid
6:45 Moderated questions to panelists
(IM Kittygloom Cassady during presentations to ask your questions.
Include name of person to whom question is directed.)

About Teen Tech Week
Teen Tech Week (TTW) is an initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association. See http://www.ala.org/teentechweek for full information.

Thanks to Yohan Althouse, official photographer/videographer.
For more information contact BlueWings Hayek.

BLAST
BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope) is a scientific ballooning project dedicated to understanding the origins of the universe. Last December, BLAST flew from a Long Duration Balloon over Antarctica. By providing the first sensitive large-area submillimeter surveys at these wavelengths, BLAST will address some of the most important cosmological and Galactic questions regarding the formation and evolution of stars, galaxies and clusters.

Virtual BLAST will be flying over the SL grid on Saturday, March 3 and will fly over Information Island 9am - 10am.

One of the BLAST scientists will give a talk on the project at the International Spaceflight Museum on March 4 at 11am SLT.

For more information, contact Abbey Zenith.