Upcoming Library Events!

Mystery Manor on Info Island has a new exhibit which celebrates the southwestern mystery writer Tony Hillerman. Come visit the exhibit, housed in a Trading post in a southwestern landscape much like the Navajo Reservation in northern New Mexico, the setting of Hillerman’s novels. A grand opening dance party on Friday at 6pm, December 11, is scheduled. Short stories will be read on Wednesday evenings – schedule to be announced.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/192/164/33

RL Librarian Chat: A monthly discussion series that features real life librarians talking about their RL jobs. Presented by ACRL and LLAMA. The discussion series is being revived after a short hiatus.
Location: Info Island – Auditorium
Date: December 9th (tentative 2nd Wednesday of every month)
Time: 5pm (SL)
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/62/114/33

Speaker:
Brian Gray (Brian Garfield in SL) is the Head of Reference & Engineering Librarian at the Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University. He will discuss his role as a “college-based” librarian in the School of Engineering. He will also talk about the new roles the library has taken in outreach and integration into various roles at the university, including partnerships related to research areas defined by the university’s strategic plan. He is also the webmaster for LLAMA and teaches web 2.0 and technology courses for Kent State University School of Library & Information Science. Discussion could take many directions depending on the participants.

An Evening @Virtually Speaking with Jimbo Hoyer with Time journalist and novelist Lev Grossman – Simulcast on BlogTalkRadio – Read Lev at Techland: http://techland.com/?s=grossman&x=0&y=0 and

Time Mag: http://search.time.com/results.html?query=%20LEV%20GROSSMAN

Come be part of the studio audience at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtually%20Speaking/167/100/25. Can’t be in world? Listen to Blog Talk Radio from http://virtuallyspeaking.ning.com/

Grossman on Grossman:

http://levgrossman.com/about.html

I was born in 1969, the son of two English professors, and grew up in Lexington, MA, a placid little suburb of Boston. I graduated from Harvard in 1991 with a degree in literature, spent several aimless years wandering around reading and temping and trying and failing to learn various foreign languages, then went on to the Ph.D. program in comparative literature at Yale. I left after three years without finishing my degree, once I realized that a career in comparing literatures was not for me.

Instead I set about gradually turning myself into a journalist. I worked for a string of dot-coms while writing free-lance articles about books, technology and culture in general for various magazines, newspapers and websites, including Lingua Franca, the Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Salon and the New York Times. In 2002 I was hired by Time and became the magazine’s book critic as well as one of its lead technology writers. The New York Times says I’m “among this country’s smartest and most reliable critics.”

I published my first novel, Warp, in 1997. My second novel, Codex, came out in 2004 and became an international bestseller. My new novel, The Magicians, was published in August of 2009 and became a New York Times bestseller. I currently live in Brooklyn, NY.

Follow him here:

http://twitter.com/leverus

Coming up in 2009: (MIC = Music Island Concerts, begin at 4:30pm)

Dec 10 – TBA

(MIC: Duo Appassionato – Four Seasons)

Dec 17 – Dean Baker (Economist) Co-Director Center for Economic and Policy Research

Dec 24 – DARK

Dec 31 – DARK

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Virtually Speaking with Jimbo Hoyer (aka Jay Ackroyd) features live, in-depth, intelligent conversations with opinion leaders before a virtual studio audience. Programs are simulcast on Blog Talk Radio. CS Kappler is the alternative show host. Widget Whiteberry dresses the set and promotes Virtually Speaking on the net. Dorie Bernstein creates avatars. Dire Lobo manages sound. Lillie Yifu is developing the built environment. Kate Miranda produces Music Island Concerts@Virtually Speaking.

Twice a month, Kate Miranda teams up with Virtually Speaking to present Music Island Concerts @ Virtually Speaking. At these informal and intimate events, professional musicians use the global language of music, setting the stage for the contemplation of important issues of our time.

Bookem Streeter stocks the books at Jackson Street Books online .

Help us spread the word -

1. Follow the schedule and post pictures, questions/comments to the forum at

http://virtuallyspeaking.ning.com/

2. Join the Virtually Speaking group in world and on FaceBook

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6626186145&ref=ts

3. Follow Jay on Twitter

http://twitter.com/http://twitter.com/jayackroyd

4. Follow Virtually Speak to find and follow Twitter accounts for past and scheduled guests.

Contact: Widget Whiteberry

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Widget Whiteberry – Public Affairs and Social Networking Aps

Commonwealth Islands in Second Life
Residencies for a dozen NGOs learning to use virtual worlds to serve their first world aspirations

http://commonwealthisland.ning.com/

Virtually Speaking in Second Life
Live, in-depth, intelligent conversations about politics and policy with opinion leaders. Produced before a virtual studio audience. Simulcast on BlogTalkRadio.

http://virtuallyspeaking.ning.com/

Meet the Author ~ Dana Paxson (RL) = Jeddin Leval (SL)

will lead tours of his underground dity built on the Palm Breezes sim.

This city mirrors the site of his novel, Descending Road .

While touring, he’ll tell us about the events and characters in the
novel.

Dec. 4 at 1 pm, Dec. 15 at 6:30 pm, Dec. 20 at 1 pm

Free story download:http://danapaxsonstudio.com/DR%20Latest/DR.zip

Landmark: http://Palm%20Breezes/112/93/46

Check both sides of the notice board at the Portal { Info Island
210/94/33 } for

information. Click on the note card giver cube at the base of the
board to receive a story summary and a landmark.

Book of the Month and Film Discussion combined ~ A Christmas Carol

The film is an animated retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic novel
about a Victorian-era miser guided by Spirits who take him back into
his past and into the future.

Now let’s see: Time Travel + Extraterrestrial Spirits making contact
with a human + the ability to change the future . . . . Charles
Dickens may not have ever considered that he was writing Science
Fiction or Science Fantasy, but the elements are there.

You’ll remember this gripping and heart-warming story from the past.
You’ve heard it, read it, seen it on video or TV, seen various filmed
versions. You’re welcome to wear period dress if you like.

Saturday, Dec. 5th at 1 pm and Tuesday, Dec. 8th at 6:30 pm

Check both sides of the notice board at the Portal for information.
Click on the note card giver cube at the bottom of the notice board
for a summary note card and a landmark to our Sky Platform where we
hold discussions.

Alexandrian Free Library: (Caledon, Winterfell, Steelhead, New Toulouse, New Babbage, Amatsu Shima, West of Ireland, Steeltopia, Deadwood, Al Andalus & Constantinople) Library Events for December 2 through December 8, 2009

Continuing Exhibits:

Caledon Library: From Oxcarts to Gondolas: the travel albums of Isabella Stewart Gardner
2009-07-14 to 2010-01-03
HG Wells Memorial Library, Caledon Wellsian,

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Wellsian/225/236/23

Great Ladies of Cookery: British and American cookbook publishing by Women in the 18th & 19th centuries
2009-07-31 – 2009-10-29
Whitehorn Library, Caledon Victoria City

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/55/202/23

Deadwood Memorial Library – Drawn From the Past: Deadwood Role-play Characters Inspired by Real History
2009-09-26 – 2009-12-31
Deadwood Memorial Library

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Phoenix%20pass/124/148/651/

Les Chroniques de la Fee Verte: An Exhibit by Elric Anatine.
2009-11-01 – 2010-01-01
Toussaint L’Ouverture Community Library Second Floor

http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/64/87/34

West of Ireland – Newgrange
2009-11-10 – 2009-12-31
West of Ireland Library & Cultural Center