Archive for the ‘Services’ Category

  • Info Island This Week

    New exhibit at Science Center
    Max Chatnoir has donated a new exhibit to the Science Center on Info Island II. The exhibit shows how a ribosome reads a messenger RNA strand and uses that information to assemble amino acids into a protein. There is also an explanatory notecard. You can find the exhibit [...]

  • Info Island Orientation (Postponed)

    This orientation had to be cancelled but will be rescheduled: Stay tuned!
    Tour Info Island and find out what’s on offer!
    When: Saturday, October 21 at 3pm SLT
    Where: Meet in front of main library

  • The Great Prim Challenge

    Today I held the first great prim challenge. Designed to inspire creation that is low prim, I was thrilled when eight contestants came to show off their skills. Each worked hard to create a robot that was five prims or less. The players used scripts to give their robots life, and textures to make the [...]

  • New Library Search HUD Created by Damek Tretiak

    Damek Tretiak in SL and Patrick Ward in RL has created a special search HUD(heads-up display) which can also reside on the user’s screen for Second Life Library. Library users can ask a question via Question Point via chat or via email, search world-cat, wikipedia, google, view a map of the library, Amazon, Findarticles.com, and [...]