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  • Share the health project report in Second life now available

    “Share the Health: Training People with Disabilities and Chronic Medical Conditions on How to Locate Quality Health Information” Report Available
    Alliance Library System is pleased to make the final report for the project “Share the Health” available on the web at http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/pdf09/Sharethehealthfinalreportmay2009.pdf.
    This project was funded with a contract from the National Library of Medicine Greater [...]

  • Libraries in Second Life this week

    Wednesday, May 6, 6:30pm SLT
    Info Island
    Hot Topics @ Your Second Life Library
    Nudity and Modesty
    This month’s panel will be discussing the questions of nudity and modesty in Second Life. What’s appropriate, what really counts as nudity on a virtual person?
    Come as you are.
    May 8th and 9th! Library Career Fair and Library Fair!
    This two [...]

  • Libraries in Second Life this week

    Book Discussion
    27 April 2009 6:00 PM SL
    The Gazebo at Mystery Manor
    This month’s discussion of international crime fiction goes to Cuba
    with a discussion of Havana Black by Leonardo Padura (full name
    Leonardo Padura Fuentes), one of Cuba’s best known writers. He is best
    known in the English-speaking world for his quartet of detective
    novels featuring lieutenant Mario Conde, Las [...]

  • Libraries this week in Second Life

    Take a Tour of Karuna!
    Join others to learn more about this brand new sim, devoted to
    HIV/AIDS awareness and support, funded by the National Library of
    Medicine through the Alliance Library System. We’re delighted to show off the story garden area, which is intended to be a gathering-place for memories and narratives, the resource and community [...]