Second Life and Beyond: Librarianship in Virtual Worlds at ALA
Program Title: “Second Life and Beyond: Librarianship in Virtual Worlds” (”Virtual Communities & Libraries Exchange” in the official program)
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008
Time: 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Place: Anaheim Marriott in the Marquis Ballroom NorthEast (Just a hop, skip, and jump from the Anaheim Convention Center — sorry, no teleporting)
Sponsor: ALA VCL (Virtual Communities and Libraries) MIG (Member Initiative Group)
Program Description: Join Joe Sanchez from the University of Texas at Austin, Christina Coleman from ALA, Tom Peters from TAP Info Services, and other speakers for a lively and wide ranging conversation about the prospects for librarianship and library education in a variety of virtual worlds, including:
Second Life
Whyville (a virtual world for tweens)
Wonderland (a joint project of Sun MicroSystems and the New Media Consortium)
Qwaq
Prototerra
Other virtual worlds too numerous to mention!