Info Islands and libraries in sl events this week

Client Side Information Literacy: The Challenge of a New Century

What: First California Library Association Program in Second Life: a panel / with Q & A.
A Free & Open Session
When: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 6P - 7P SLT (PST) Come
in-world at 5:30 p.m. to test your SL voice tool.
Where: Coliseum, Talis Cybrary Island, Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Talis%20Cybrary%20Island/196/141/23/

Full Presentation Description and Speaker Profiles: http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2008/05/cla_second_life.php

R U a Twit? - Using and Uses of Twitter!

Tuesday May 20th @ 6 PM SLT - Info Island Open Air Auditorium

Many of us have started using Twitter - explore its use in this buzz
session led by Cerulean Vesperia!

TX950 - 2nd Annual Beach Party
Tuesday may 23rd @ 6 PM SLT - Info Island, TX950

Join the gang at our 2nd annual salute to summer with the TX950 beach
party in the sky Grab your bathing suit, your sunglasses and your
tanning lotion, we’ll supply the rest!

Caledon

Discussion: Women in Fairy Tales
Sun, May 25, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Steelhead Public Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/136/200/0
Children’s Literature Series
“The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” - Women of the fairy tales we all grew up with. Possibly find out who inspired the fairy godmothers, the wicked stepmothers, the princesses and the stepdaughters. Do they have a history or are they simply the product of over active imaginations?
Discussion Leader: Myfanwy Davies.

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May Book of the Month at the Caledon Library:
The Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter de la Mare
Book Discussion, led by Miss Serafina Puchkina of Caledon
Saturday, May 31st, 2 - 4pm slt
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/52/203/23

Well known and regarded in its own day, de la Mare’s fantastic tale of journey through a delicately exotic landscape has fallen into some obscurity. This is a shame, as there is an intrinsic pleasure of the author’s dreamlike prose, written with a poet’s sensibility, as well as in Dorothy Lathrop’s vivid and sensuous illustrations.
The work is also of interest as one of the principal influences on JRR Tolkein’s “Middle Earth” books, especially “The Hobbit.” We will be discussing the work as a Hero’s Journey of the type explored by Joseph Campbell et al.
All lovers of Quests, fans of tales involving the Innocent and Magical Third Son, Persons Partial to the Poetical, and readers of Fantastic and Fanciful Fiction are invited to join us, whether they have read the work or not.
Copies of the work may be had at the Whitehorn Library in Caledon VictoriaCity, or found online at http://www.archive.org/stream/threemullamulgar00dela

NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity… Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Whitehorn building, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub.