Info Island and Libraries in Second Life this week
The Sci-Fi & Fantasy Portal presents
its July FILM DISCUSSION
When: Saturday, July 5th. at 1 pm
Where: Info Island 210– 94–33 places you at the discussion circle
Film: THE MATRIX
Hosts: Symmetry Munro and Hawk Lightcloud
Bring your ideas and insights on this complex and innovative film
Beach Blanket Bingo second life style!
Join us on Investing Info Island Saturday night July 5 at 6 pm sl for beach blanket bingo Second Life Style.
Gabrielle Riel will play tunes and enjoy music, dancing and bingo. Contact Hypatia Dejavu for more info.
Enjoy the new Zenith gardens
Zenith Garden, just west of the Alliance Library building on Info Island (north of the Reference Desk on International) is now set up and ready for visitors.
Named for Abbey Zenith, this small plot of land has a good number of plants, bushes and trees, most all of which can be left-clicked on, supplying a notecard with information on the SL creator, the flora’s real life counterpart and a sign board with URL links/SL landmarks to:
–General information on Zenith Garden
–World flora sites on the Internet
–Real Life garden websites
–YouTube garden tours
–Second Life gardens/parks/nature areas
–Web pages with information on gardening for children
–Second Life garden stores
–Poetry about gardens
Benches and a pose-pillow give visitors a chance to sit, relax, learn and enjoy. Here’s a SLURL to the garden:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/info%20island/106/24/33/
Courses for Educators, Librarians and Others in Second Life
UIUC GSLIS and Alliance Library System are pleased to offer summer courses for librarians and educators on virtual worlds. Courses include:
Using Immersive Environments in the Classroom for School Media Specialists
Second Life 101
Technical Skills for Virtual World Librarians
Introduction to Virtual World Librarianship
Working with a class in Second Life
Setting Up an Educational Presence in Second Life
Immersive Learning in 3d Virtual Environments
For more information on and to register for these courses, go to
http://www.lis. uiuc.edu/ programs/ cpd/VW/
For more information contact Marianne Steadley at UIUC at steadley@uiuc. edu
or Lori Bell, Alliance Library System, lbell@alliancelibra rysystem. com
In memoriam – Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822)
Poet’s Corner – Literature Collection – 11th floor of the Central Bell Library Tower – Info Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/214/26/123
5 PM SLT
Poetry reading, discussion and discussion of the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Contact Abbey Zenith for more information.
Hot Topics – Governance in Virtual Worlds
Due to technical problems in SL last Wednesday we rescheduled this month’s Hot Topics Discussion – Please join us at 6 PM July 9th.
Who governs virtual worlds? Virtual world creators? Virtual land owners? Group leaders, owners, organizers? In a world created by its residents who makes the rules? What does it mean to be a leader in a virtual world? Join us for our monthly hot topics discussion on Info Island.. Panelists Katt Tomsen, Abbey Zenith, and others will lead the discussion.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/103/110/34
Only Yesterday 1930s sim
The Only Yesterday sim celebrates the completion (well, almost) of TWO new exhibits. Please come and see!
The new movie theater, on the small square just east of the island’s central plaza, displays vintage posters and other resources to highlight the Golden Age of Hollywood, the 1930s – the era of The Prisoner of Zenda, Gone With the Wind, and the Wizard of Oz. Not to be outdone, the second floor of the theater celebrates radio programs and celebrities of the era with photos, biographical sketches, and recorded samples of original broadcast by Edward R. Morrow, Jack Benny, the Lone Ranger, and many others.
To learn about the grimmer side of the 1930s, visit the migrant camp at the southeast corner of Only Yesterday. The new exhibit there focuses on displaced workers and others who often lived in Hoovervilles, hobo camps, and government resettlement areas while searching for employment. Among other things, the exhibit includes a selection of vintage photos from the American Memory collection in the U.S. Library of Congress.
Finally (a shameless commercial plug on behalf of Only Yesterday’s merchants), please take the opportunity to visit the island’s fine shops while you are in town. Great shopping, right on the plaza. Contact Rolig Loon for more information.
Alexandrian Free Library: Caledon, New Toulouse, Steelhead, & Winterfell Library Events July 8th-16th, 2008
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Poetry Writing Workshop with Dov Whiteberry
Steelhead Public Library, Steelhead City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/123/185/24
Wed, July 9, 7pm – 8pm
Dov Whiteberry, renowned Vermont poet and educator
is welcomed back to the Steelhead Library for our continuing poetry
workshop series. Poems don’t have to rhyme – honest!
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Children’s Literature Discussion
Sun Jul 13 2:30-3:30pm
Steelhead Public Library, Steelhead City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/123/185/24
“Women in Fairy Tales: The Good the Bad and the Ugly.” The incomparable Myfanwi Davies leads a discussion about the many roles of women in traditional tales. All wicked stepsisters, fairy godmothers, elven princesses, forsaken orphans, etc. are welcome to come in costume.
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Caledon Library Guest Book Discussion in SL New England: Moby Dick & Yankee Whaling
Monday, July 14, 2008 4-5 pm
SL New England Mystic Classroom
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Mystic/234/145/23
A book discussion and look at the historical whailing industry of New England.
The Great American Novel? A great treatise on ..or apolgy for…whaling? A great throbbingly overworked phallic metaphor? A great bloody bore? Herman Mellivle’s “Moby-Dick, or The Whale” is revered and controversial, loved and derided. The novel is also an enduring source of cultural references, from the highfalutin’ all the way down to Jeff Smith’s graphic novel series “Bone”…and a certain Great White Coffee Chain. What’s sure is that it is a great walloping leviathan of a novel, stuffed with brilliant prose, skillful metaphor, sly humor, and narrow observation.
All misunderstood cetaceans, obsessed captains, idle observers, dauntless harpooners, and sweet-talking bosuns are welcome to join us, whether they have read the work or not
Contact Trudy Takacs for more information
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The Toussaint L’Ouverture Library of New Toulouse is now open!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/64/108/23
Exhibits, through the end of August
*Civic maps of historic New Orleans
*Reawakening Kate Chopin
*Tribute to the Cammie G. Henry Research Center.
Come visit and peruse our offerings in the bougainvillea breeze.