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: