Archive for September, 2007
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Teaching in a Tea House – Lifelong Information Literacy
On Wednesday, Sept. 19th, Esther Grassian (SL: Alexandria Knight), UCLA, and Marsha Schnirring (SL: Buk Binder), Occidental College, presented a reprise of their LOEX presentation on Lifelong Information Literacy, with the permission and attendance of Brad Sietz, LOEX Director. This professional development session for librarians, held at Cybrary City I, was well attended [...]
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Genealogy 1812 Overview tonight
A genealogy seminar “1812 Overview” led by Krag Mariner Wed. Sept 19, 2007 @ 6 PM SLT at the Open Air Auditorium on Info Island. For a tp or more information, contact Cindy Elkhart or Abbey Zenith.
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ALA Celebrates Banned Books Week in Virtual Worlds
The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is pleased to announce Banned Books Week activities for librarians and the general public in virtual worlds Second Life, Teen Second Life and on social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. ALA is working with other library partners to provide an interactive experience centered on Banned [...]
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Libraries and Immersive Learning in 3D Virtual Environments
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, is pleased to offer a new non-credit, continuing education course this fall.
Libraries and Immersive Learning in 3D Virtual Environments
Course description: What skills and techniques from other disciplines do librarians need to learn/use/modify, in order to take the library forward [...]