Here is the text of the presentation I'll be giving at the open house on Sunday. Please leave comments or email me with suggested revisions, changes etc.
"My Second Life name is Leeorie Alter and in real life I am a reference librarian in the adult services department of Olathe Public Library. We are a mid-sized library, and those of us on the adult services staff do a little bit of everything, including collection development and maintenance and programming as well as staffing the reference desk.
I became interested in SL a little over a year ago after reading about it and became even more intrigued after hearing about how libraries were becoming active here. Initially I came in just to look around, with hopes that my library might eventually be interested in an SL presence. But when spots became available on the new Talis Cybrary Island sim, I took the chance my library would eventually back me up and committed us to a project here. In May I received formal backing from my library to experiment with this project.
It is still a work in progress. Like so many others, we are inventing what library services mean in a virtual environment……particularly for public libraries. While we explore what is possible in Second Life, we are also offering interested staff members a chance to explore the possibilities and enjoy the richness of the network possibilities. Our most exciting project to date is a collaboration with the State Library of Kansas and the Topeka-Shawnee County Kansas public library to bring a Kansas author into Second Life for a program. We hope to have that program this fall, along with related exhibits at the library here on Talis, where you will also find information about the real life Olathe Public Library as well as links to our catalog and additional information about the community.
We hope you will take time to visit us and take a look around. I would be happy to answer questions during the break.
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