Collaborative pages for the Collections group.
Collections will meet four goals:
1) To serve the citizens of Second Life and be useful to them
2) To fascilitate community building
3) To model the potential inherent to digital libraries
4) To bring "out-of-world" resources "in-world"
Make any minutes and transcripts a child of this page.
Discussion of Formats
--notecard books, ebooks (thinc press), prims, scripts, textures, audio, video, links to Web resources
--Emphasis on materials that allow users to interact, take advantage of 3-d world and ability to move within it
--collections space in new building—listening area, video viewing area, environments area, stacks for books, exhibits area
Committee members will investigate how the following formats are available and supported within SL and report back at our next meeting so we can plan how to collect/organize/display:
--Audio: Rain, PF
--Copyright & Intellectual Property: Seraphima
--Special format books (e.g. Thinc Press): Rain, Cypress
--Prims, scripts, textures, environments: Eiseldora
--Video: Abbey
--Links (internal and external): Adeghord, Jenna
Ascertaining Resident Needs and Wants
--Surveying residents to see what they want (library-wide, or just collections?) Can we expect this to work?
--Different user groups have different needs (e.g. newbies, builders, social explorers, business owners)
--Outreach—we all need to be getting out into the world and talking to residents.
Concerns Raised
--How do we want to organize collections within the new building?
--How will we distribute items to patrons? Eiseldora suggests a scriptor.
--Important to make interacting with materials fun and engaging. We want to inspire the imaginations of our users while offering them substantial services and information. How can we allow and encourage users to contribute or comment on materials?
--Adeghord and Seraphima will work on library catalog database
Possible Projects
--Best of SL
--New Arrivals Exhibits (especially of user-created donations)
--SL History
--Tutorials for newbies
Handling Gifts
--This needs to be based on collections plan, which in turn needs to be based on library goals and business plan
--Do we collect and display everything that is donated? For example, Eis has received a fire poker and a train created by SL residents. What do we do with donations of user-created content
--Keep a running inventory of donations at the drupal site so we can get an idea of what sorts of things we’re getting and figure out how to handle them.
--How can we highlight user-created donations?
Fundraising/Sponsorship
--What do we think of fundraising shops? We don’t want the island to turn into a mall, but we can see the use of offering tools like NoteTaker near where information is available. Issue will be raised at Business Plan meeting.
--Patrick is donating L$30,000 (Thank you, Patrick!)
--How can we recognize donors?
Eiseldora is making a map of the island and will place teleporters for easy navigation.
We’ll meet again in two weeks.
aka Books
Eastern Standard Tribe-- Doctorow, Cory
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom-- Doctorow, Cory
Free Culture-- Lessig, Lawrence
A working inventory of the notecard books we have...
In bookshelves:
Brave New World
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Crossways, 1889
Engines of Creation
Little Women
Mark Twain, Short Stories
Twice-Told Tales
War of the Worlds
In librarians' personal inventories, getting ready to be added:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Hollow Men
The Lady of Shalott
Dante Aligheri's Inferno
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Little Women
The Posthuman Manifesto (excerpt from "The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness beyond the brain" by Robert Pepperell)
Stories by Edgar Allen Poe:
William Wilson
The Tell Tale Heart
The Raven
The Purloined Letter
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Masque of the Red Death
The Imp of the Perverse
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdermar
The Domain of Arnheim
The Cask of Amontillado
The Black Cat
Silence- A Fable
Mesmeric Revelation
Landor's Cottage
Eleonora
Berenice
A Descent into the Maelstrom
Von Kempler and His Discovery
Government Documents Information Page
This page will eventually link to all of the temporary monthly displays put on by Documents staff.
This page will provide links to materials featured on our temporary display table.
This page will list maps displayed on the sixth floor of the library tower.
This page will list the sources for posters displayed on the sixth floor of the library tower.
This page will feature sources of material being either in the process of being added to the government documents collection or being considered for inclusion in either the regular collection or in temporary displays.
This page will show resources listed by table.
Who volunteers at the Second Life Library Government Documents section?
If you've been to the Second Life Government Documents section, but couldn't find what you were looking for, or if you're not on Second Life, try these sources for government information:
And more...
Links collected by the Library for their Second Life content are currently being kept and organized at http://del.icio.us/secondlifelibrary.
Links for use in answering Reference queries may be found in the Reference section.
Collaborative page for those working on the Manga and Anime collections.
This is the group page for Mystery Manor. Here we promote mystery, crime, and thriller literature through discussions and exhibits.
This is the group page for the Talis Sci Fi & Fantasy Portal, part of Second Life Library. We aim to provide resources to SL citizens who want to read, write, and research Science Fiction and Fantasy works created in and out of SL.
Ideas for Resource Categories for the Talis SF/F Portal
Three "portal areas": Research, Read, and Write
Resources for Researchers (Research)
-- Links to major research journals/web sites (e.g., New York Review of Science Fiction, Locus online)
-- Resources about authors
-- Resources about specific research areas (e.g., Feminism in SF)
-- Links to popular Cons and Con resources (this actually overlaps all three main categories)
Resources for Readers (Read)
-- eBooks, public domain works, etc.
-- Web sites publishing stories, e.g., Strange Horizons
-- Podcasts/audio versions of stories
-- Works being published in SL, e.g., machinima (not sure what is out there), book references in SL
Resources for Writers (Write)
-- Idea generators (e.g., SciTech Daily, Edge.org)
-- Agents and Publishers & Writers Beware (might be nice to link to some small presses here)
-- Workshops and writing groups (e.g., Clarion, Critters)
-- Doing SF/F in SL (not sure what would be here, need to explore with community)