Working with a Class in Second Life
Join Dr. Bryan Carter (Bryan Mnemonic) in this course created to help librarians, museum professionals, and educators learn how to work with a class in Second Life including hardware and software requirements, orientation, faculty and student mindset change, establishing course objectives, finding and creating content, creating meaningful projects, evaluating student work, action learning, grants, managing a sim-island, and collaborative opportunities.
Wednesdays, October 29, November 5, 12, 19 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM SL (US Pacific) time

For additional information and to register: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/VW/class.html

Marianne Steadley
Continuing Professional Development Program Director
501 E. Daniel St. Champaign IL 61820
217/244-2751
Fax: 217/244-3302

Night of the Living Dead Film Discussion
October 26 at 12 noon SLT
The Sci-Fi & Fantasy Portal will hold October’s film discussion on Sunday, October 26 at 12 noon. Host is Grizzy Grizwold. Whichever incarnation of this film you’ve seen, you’re welcome to share your ideas and insights. It should be a lively discussion! IM moderators Symmetry Munro or Hawk Lightcloud if you need help getting there on Info Island.

Something Wicked Halloween Pandemonium
November 1 at 4-6 pm SLT
Bradburyville will hold a “Something Wicked Halloween Pandemonium” on
Saturday, Nov. 1, from 4-6pm slt. DJ Lyndzee McMillan will spin
appropriately ghoulish tunes. Halloween costumes are the dress code
for the event. Contact Daisyblue Hefferman for more information.

TX950 – Bloodthirsty Halloween
October 31st at 6 PM SLT

Welcome to the dark side for this month’s TX950 party on Info Island, a motley crew of evil doers will be gathering on Info Island to celebrate Halloween, please join us to dance and discover what surprises the mausoleum holds! Contest for the best male and the best female in costume. Muhahahahahahahaha. Contact Abbey Zenith for more information.

Show Me the Money

November 1st at 6 PM SLT

Join us on Investing Info Island to dance away the economy blues with some rocking tunes! Radio Riel will lead the gang in this money themed party. We may even have a few lindens to throw your way! Please contact Hypatia Dejavu or Abbey Zenith for additional information.

Cypress Grove book discussion

October 29 at 6 PM SLT

Mystery Manor finishes the first season of the Waiting for the Other Gumshoe to Drop discussion series on Wednesday, October 29 with James Sallis’ thoughtful mystery, Cypress Grove. Please join discussion leader Maxito Ricardo at 6:00pm SL in the Gazebo at Mystery Manor. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/181/161/33

After the discussion we will have time to talk about season two which will start in January 2009. Our tentative theme is International Mystery and we would like to know what you think. For more information contact Max Batra.

Enjoy Halloween on Imagination Island

Join us on Imagination Island as we celebrate the special days at the
end of October and beginning of November. Visit the cursed Pyramid,
haunted graveyard, Halloween, Samhain, All Souls, All Saints and Dia
de los Muertos displays at Rachelville. Then teleport over to Mythica
Plaza and walk through the Haunted House on the pond. TPs provided
between both places.

The pyramid and graveyard were set up by library student volunteer, Ka
Castaignede.

The haunted house on Mythica is on the pond next to the Plaza there.
Besides the scary and absurd you’ll find resources on horror films.

SLURL to Rachelville Plaza
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imagination%20Island/111/178/25/

SLURL to Mythica Plaza
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imagination%20Island/188/153/22/

Be there are be turned into a pumpkin at midnight!

Oh yeah.and don’t forget the trick or treat party at Rachelville on
October 31st at 4:30pm SL time. For more information, contact Rocky Vallejo.

College Fair Coming to Info Island

College Fair coming to InfoIsland! Call for Participating Institutions!

Info Island is hosting a Virtual College Fair! Come take advantage of this opportunity to promote your college or university to visitors from around the world - and no one needs to leave home!

See http://infoisland.org/2008/10/18/college-fair-coming-to-infoisland/ for more information and sign-up form. The fair will be held on November 16, so please sign up soon!

Alexandrian Free Library: Caledon, Winterfell, Steelhead, New Babbage & New Toulouse Library events October 28 - Nov 4

Thu, October 30, 7pm – 8pm
Radio Theatre - War of the Worlds, on Radio Riel
Radio Riel HQ, Caledon Penzance
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Penzance/224/100/24
Or tune in at http://music.radioriel.org
Join Caledon Library collaborator Radio Riel for an historic Halloween event as host Edward Pearse presents “War of the Worlds”. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles this adaptation of H. G. Wells’ novel “The War of the Worlds” was first aired October 30, 1938 over the WABC Radio network, as an episode of the American radio drama anthology series “Mercury Theatre on the Air.” During the original broadcast, its format as a series of news bulletins caused considerable panic as listeners decided that Martians really were landing in West Windsor, New Jersey. For much more information see http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/ Come join the party at Radio Riel Headquarters in Caledon Penzance. Greenies welcome.

Steelhead Scary Story Festival
Oct. 25, 26 & 30 2008
Sponsored by the Steelhead Library; please contact Riven Homehood for details
At the Haunted Steelhead Hotel Ballroom
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/75/156/26

Schedule - All times are SLT

Saturday Oct. 25
11:30am - Shalmendo Gleneux reading “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe
12 noon - Iason Hassanov telling ghost stories
1pm - Elder Priestman & Derry McMahon reading “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving

Sunday Oct. 26
6pm Professor Rudolfo Woodget will tell two stories
7pm Lludmila Mirrikh

Thursday Oct 30
7pm Hotspur O’Toole
8pm Elegia Underwood

Friday Oct. 31
7pm Haunted Hotel Costume Ball

The American Library Association Virtual Communities and Libraries Membership Interest Group is pleased to announce its first ALA SLymposium to be held in the virtual world of Second Life on ALA island on Saturday November 8. There is no charge for the event. The fall SLymposium will offer a look at what all types of library-related organizations are doing in Second Life. A companion symposium for spring will explore what all types of library-related organizations are doing in other virtual environments.
The keynote speaker for the SLymposium is Tom Peters, CEO of TAP Information Services, and author of the recently released “Libraries and Virtual Worlds,” an ALA TechSource publication. Peters is also one of the conveners of the VCL MIG. Other speakers include Sonja Morgan-Plummer, Tina Coleman from ALA, Carrie Pennell from Harvard University, FT Takacs from University of South Carolina, Carol Perryman from University of North Carolina SLIS, Kelly Czarnecki from Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, and Sue Bergren, a graduate student from the University of Illinois.
To register for this event, go to http://tinyurl.com/5eypww
For more information on the event, please contact Tom Peters at tapinformation@yahoo.com, Lori Bell at lbell927@gmail.com, or Sonja Morgan at sonjamorgwain@yahoo.com
Event Schedule
8:00 A.M. – Welcome and Keynote
Tom Peters, author, ALA TechSource Library Technology Report on Librarianship in Virtual Worlds
8:30 A.M. – Public and Rural Libraries in Second Life
Sonja Morgan. Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
9:00 A.M. – Library Associations in Second Life
Tina Coleman, ALA
9:30 A.M. – Academic Libraries in Second Life
Carrie Pennell, Harvard University
FT Takacs, University of South Carolina
10:00 – 11:00 A.M. – Break
11:00 A.M. – Special Libraries in Second Life
Carol Perryman, Coordinator of Health Infoisland
11:30 A.M. – Schools, Teens and Tweens in virtual worlds
Kelly Czarnecki, Public Library Of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
12:00 P. M. – Graduate library students in Second Life – Sue Bergren
12:30 P.m. – Social

ALA TechSource report: MUVE into virtual worlds
CHICAGO - Virtual worlds are here to stay, says Tom Peters (”Maxito Ricardo” in Second Life and Lively) in the October issue of Library Technology Reports. In “Librarianship in Virtual Worlds,” Peters explores how librarianship can survive and thrive in these multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs). For libraries and library-related organizations interested in developing a presence in one or more virtual worlds, this issue of LTR may prove a useful tool for understanding the breadth and depth of the VW scene.

In “Librarianship in Virtual Worlds,” the author — a librarian with years of academic, library technology and VW experience — details virtual library services and provides a host of useful practices for libraries with the desire to innovate and get on the “MUVE.”

Inside this issue:

Terminology, Contexts, and Distinctions, including information about: Virtual Communities; Four Components of the Metaverse; Avatars; MUVEs and MMORPGs; Three Types of Libraries; and Being in the Real World, Online, and In World
Ten Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Librarianship in Virtual Worlds
Issues to Consider, including: Ownership, Intellectual Property, and Rights Management; Timing; Metrics: Studying the Attitudes and Behaviors of Avatars; and Interoperability and the Portability of Resources
Resources, including information about: Following the Virtual Worlds News; Platforms, Software, and Tools; WebFlock from Electric Sheep; Books and Articles; and A Selective List of Virtual Worlds
More information and a free sample from this Library Technology Report can be found at: http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/librarianship-in-virtual-worlds.html

About the Author
Tom Peters began his library career serving as an academic librarian for 16 years at various Midwestern universities and academic library consortia. In 2003 he founded TAP Information Services (www.tapinformation.com), a small company that helps organizations innovate. Current TAP Info projects include OPAL (www.opal-online.org), an easy, affordable, accessible Web-conferencing service, and Unabridged (www.unabridged.info), which provides downloadable digital audiobooks for blind and low-vision users in several states. Tom, his wife, their four children and three dogs live on an acreage nestled between Oak Grove and Grain Valley, Missouri.

About ALA TechSource
ALA TechSource, www.alatechsource.org, is a unit of the Publishing Dept. of the American Library Association and publishes the periodicals Library Technology Reports and Smart Libraries Newsletter as well as the popular ALA TechSource Blog