Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Update for November
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
News and gossip!!!
Pictures taken below at several live events in the past couple of weeks. I had text to accompany each of these pictures, but in the process of editing somehow deleted the text and and too fed up to write it over again! So ask if you want explanation in the meantime I will make and effort to get more skilled with Blogger.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Hi, I'm back......
*Hyen has been working on a PIRATE SHIP to serve as our skybox for meeting and hanging out. I will take a picture and post it here...it is very, very cool. You will probably want to create a landmark for it. It is directly above the library, but so high you will have to have some form of flight assist to get there. Contact me for a flight feather.
*Anastasia is working on children's resources to be house in the little cottage-like building to the side of the library. Might need to look at moving the building a bit to make sure we have room for programs.
*I have been removing and/or changing furniture to save us some prims so we can use them for the skybox and other projects. You can check to see how many prims we have available on the parcel by going to the top of the screen, click on the bar that shows location, and click on the tab for "objects."
*We (our SL project) are being studied by two graduate programs. Elliott Nansen (I think that is her name) is a doctoral student in Great Britain studying public libraries in SL. And the same class from the University of North Carolina that studied us last year is back for a more in-depth study. I have a print out of the project proposal...it is very extensive. So you may be hearing from some of these folks, or see them around. You will be asked to complete a survey for them. This is VERY important so please take the time. I don't have SL names for all of the five students and professor who will be working with us....you will likely be hearing from Anamae Rae (Pamela Chappell in RL) as head of a part of the project. And you may have remember Zip (Marilyn Zamarripa) from last time.
This project proposal makes for interesting and enlightening reading. Emily and I met with the professor and Pamela via conference call this week to discuss things. It is rather exciting. They are hoping to publish the completed study.
Alex, I will forward the email with the study link to you...it's quite a few pages or I would send you a copy.
*PARTY!!!! Bucky Barkley and I are trying to get together on a plan for a sim-wide open house. Plans will be posted here. This is a chance to show off our project.
*I have installed a survey kiosk in the library. Response hasn't been terrific, but I think I have 4 so far. I am keeping a record of the responses on line, let me know if you want to see it.
*I think you are all on the Google list for notices from the Alliance Virtual Library. Try to take time to skim those posts. The Alliance system is stepping back from its previous role as owner of the library sims, and turning those reponsiblities over to a non-profit (Community Virtual Library) over seen by Abbey Zenith, Rocky Vallejo and Hypatia Dejavu. See me if you want more info on these changes.
THATS ALL FOR NOW! NEXT MEETING OCT. 6 IN THE COMPTON BOARD ROOM!
Friday, April 10, 2009
Call for volunteers!
I have cut and pasted from the Alliance Library web post on this Library Career Fair and Library Fair. I have registered us for a booth. Technically I am on vacation that weekend, but it would be nice to have the booth staffed as much as possible. I will plan to spend some time there, but I am looking for volunteers who will commit to stopping by our booth for a bit on that weekend. Not asking for you to sign up for specific shifts, just to let me know if you are willing to spend some time there as your schedule allows. ALSO, is anyone interested in helping design and build the booth? Could be fun...Hyen, wanna try your hand at building? Ana, like to do some design? Tina? Anybody? LOL
Library Career Fair & Library Fair - May 8th & 9th 2009!Announcing the First Second Life Library Career Fair & Library Fair, Sponsored by Alliance Virtual Library!
If you visited the College Fair or the Tech Fair last year, you will have an idea of the excitement and buzz around an in-world conference like this. It is a chance to meet peers and network, a chance to show off what your library is doing in Second Life, a chance to present, and with the inclusion of the Library Career Fair – it is a chance to make library job openings known and meet with job seekers and LIS students!
The Library Career Fair, May 8th, is being managed by the LIS Student Union under Adra Letov and DaisyBlue Hefferman. The Career Fair events will include: Orientations for new avatars (librarians, students, and staff), an LIS Career Resource Center with links to global job postings, speakers on survival skills for getting a job in a bad economy, resume tune-up, and what employers are looking for in today’s media-rich Web 2.0 information environments. If you are interested in posting positions or working with the Career Fair in some way, please contact Diane Nahl, SL: Adra Letov, at nahl@hawaii.edu.
The Library Fair, May 8th & 9th, will be in full operation during the career fair, speakers for the Library Fair will be scheduled for Saturday, May 9th. Each exhibitor for the Library Fair portion of this conference will receive a 10 x 10 area on which they can build a booth. This is your chance to be creative and let everyone know the great things you are doing in Second Life.
Exhibiting is free, but we are happy to accept donations to Alliance Virtual Library for sponsoring this event.
Each booth will be limited to 100 prims and we ask that scripting be kept to a minimum to help prevent lag. If you need your booth parceled off for sound or video we will be glad to do that as well. Booths can be set up May 3rd through the 7th. With the opening of the Library Career Fair, exhibits will open to the public.
We have a full sim for this event and would love to have as many real life libraries operating in SL as possible involved. This is a wonderful opportunity to network and learn from each other. Please indicate if you are interested in presenting on May 9th and we will get in touch with you to set up a time. Please contact: Abbey Zenith (abbeyzen@gmail.com) with any questions.
Please register to exhibit at the Library Fair by using this form and indicate if you would like to speak:
Saturday, March 28, 2009
fun stuff first.....
I have a Flickr account now to store images from SL. You can find them at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leeorie/
Among them you will find my very first SL photo, and a VERY geeky looking newbie I was!
In the process of uploading all those photos I used up my free allotment for the month, so here will post some photos from the latest Alliance Virtual Library party. Abbey Zenith and AVL put on a party every month for the AVL volunteers (and friends). The party is always a theme, and Abbey always does an exceptional job building a temporary venue. We also usually have Gabrielle Riel, one of the premiere SL DJs and a good friend to the library folks, with access to a wide ranging music library of more than 30,000 titles.
The theme this month was Arabian Nights...Gabi did a superlative job of playing both traditional and pop Middle Eastern music. Winners of the monthly costume contest were Rolig (not pictured) for the women and ROCKY for the men....he was dressed as Sinbad the Sailor. Rocky is pictured above, and next to him in the two piece outfit is the lovely Cindy. Pictured at left is Holly, who was just stunning and wearing the perfect outfit for belly dancing. Below are just two more interesting costumes...on the left Timo, who arrived with Galia on a flying carpet that send most of dancers flying (!) and on the right Waldron, who is ALWAYS some form of blue:
And now the not as fun stuff....
All of you, and your supervisors, have received (and hopefully completed) the survey from the North Carolina library science management class. I'll let you know when we get the results from the survey. There is a chance someone will take this on for followup next term as an independent study of libraries in SL.
I think you all know about it, but just for the record, Ralph will be presenting his bit for a KLA/MLA session on Friday morning from SL, with Angela's assistance on the Wichita end. This is pretty exciting. Lets hope all the technology works the way it is supposed too. I can't remember the exact time...10 a.m. I think...but if any of you would like to join us in SL for Ralph's presentation just let me know. I'll put some seating out and he will be using the slider outside the library, similar to the layout for the Nicodemus program.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Nicodemus program great!
The Nicodemus program was great and we had a total of 15 attendees....3 for the RL program and 11 for the program in SL this Sunday. I learned some great stuff again this time.
*For programs we need someone assigned to greet latecomers and give them a welcoming notecard with any special instructions, like "turn off your microphone to avoid feedback" or "hold questions until the end."
*GET OFF THE STAGE! Shortly after Dakota started someone IMed me for a teleport, so I sent one...which of course landed them ON the stage.
*Do a thorough search of groups/sims/individuals with an expressed interest in the topic, then send out notecards with the information.
One of those who attended is a woman I previously met in a class, and who has a specific interest in African American history. I'm glad she and Dakota were able to meet, and they are already brainstorming ideas, including having Dakota give the same Nicodemus presentation at Virtual Harlem, and forming a new group for those with an interest in African American history. So our SL branch IS having a positive effect!
BTW, the audience Sunday donated $2,390 Lindens (about $8.50 US) to the Nicodemus Pioneers, so Dakota and Nicodemus have a nest egg to get their SL project off to a good start.
Picture at left is HollyJean at the monthly Alliance Virtual Library party...theme, Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss. Saw some great costumes there.
Projects in the works:
*WE NEED PHOTOS!!! Now that you all know how to make a poster and upload images (let me know if you need a refresher) its time to GET OUT THERE AND GET SOME PHOTOS! Either existing ones, or take new ones.
*Skytales Book Discussion will focus on the YA novel Twilight. Date will be Thursday, March 26, but we don't have a time set yet. In the evening some time. If you would like to be involved let me know. Otherwise, all are welcome to attend. It will be in the meeting room at Rachelville. Hoping to gear the discussion toward why vampires are so attractive to the kids, how that can be used to lure reluctant readers, and a list of readalikes. I'll be trying to find someone to make the presentation and lead the discussion. Tasmine, if you are interested in this let me know. I promised Rocky Cindy and I would do all the work for this one, since he is tied up with teaching a class. Of course, I haven't told Cindy that yet. Ha ha. :)
*Possible book discussion at the library. This is a return to an old topic....trying to get a cooperative project going with the state library and Topeka for an author talk or something. We are tentatively looking at The Virgin of Small Plains, but I know the author is swamped right now with appearances. Might just do it as a book discussion. I'm certainly open to ideas.
Ok, so the mule naming idea was a bust. Can't blame me for trying. :)
On a personal note, my home parcel was struck by a griefer sometime in the past week or so....not sure when it happened. Apparently the same person or persons hit several other parcels in the area. They changed the terrain around and somehow managed to take or delete about 90 percent of the things I had out.....furniture, plants, all kinds of objects. Sophie helped me set the property back to more or less the way it was and I have filed a support ticket with Linden Labs. Sophie (sim owner) showed me how they were able to change the terrain and how to change my settings so that can't happen inthe future, but she is at a loss as to how they managed to steal or destroy my objects. Sigh. There are those few troublemakers no matter where you are....the real life library or SL.