5. WHAT IS SECOND LIFE SECOND LIFE IS A 3-D VIRTUAL WORLD ENTIRELY CREATED BY ITS RESIDENTS. SINCE OPENING TO THE PUBLIC IN 2003, IT HAS GROWN EXPLOSIVELY AND TODAY IS INHABITED BY MILLIONS OF RESIDENTS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE. LINDEN LAB WAS FOUNDED IN 1999 BY PHILIP ROSEDALE TO CREATE A REVOLUTIONARY NEW FORM OF SHARED EXPERIENCE, WHERE INDIVIDUALS JOINTLY INHABIT A 3D LANDSCAPE AND BUILD THE WORLD AROUND THEM. TODAY THIS EXPERIENCE, KNOWN AS SECOND LIFE, HAS A RAPIDLY GROWING POPULATION OF RESIDENTS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE, WHO ARE CREATING AND INHABITING A VIRTUAL WORLD OF THEIR OWN DESIGN.

8. Alliance Virtual Library The Library Career Fair, Managed by the LIS Student Union under Adra Letov (Dr Diana Nahl Univeristy of Hawaii) 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 securing work in the current economy, CV & interview advice, and what employers are looking for in today’s media-rich Web 2.0 information environments.

10. “ We invite you to become familiar with RezLibris Magazine. RezLibris was formally started on March 17, 2008 to provide a venue that would highlight librarian activities within the library community in Second Life. Its first issue was published in November, 2008. RezLibris Magazine consists of articles contributed by librarians and about librarians. It also consists of regular columns and features all types of Second Life libraries and librarians. RezLibris Magazine is published on the first Sunday of each month through our website - http://rezlibris.com ”.

14. User Experience West of Ireland Library – Derry McMahon Cultural & entertainment space Launched 2008 Festival of St Patrick grown into one of the busiest SL Libraries Community Building Charity

16. Get a second life! ... http://www.rezlibris.com http://sllibrarians.ning.com/ http://infoisland.org/

18. Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield Sheila Yoshikawa Owner of Infolit iSchool Organises discussion series Learns and Teaches in SL

19. Infolit iSchool Building shared with School of Education Models of SCONUL 7 Pillars of IL Exhibition space Some of the discussion spaces

22. Macbeth island

23. Liverpool University Virtual Hajj Sheila Webber, 2009

24. Collaboration, networking, learning

25. Presentation by Marshall Dozier and Fiona Brown (Pancha Enzyme and Zeno Silvercloud in SL): part of the Infolit iSchool CILR discussion series Results of a survey: librarians’ views on SL Sheila Webber, 2009

28. Possibility for international collaboration Sheila Webber, 2009

29. Model of the SCONUL 7 Pillars of Information Literacy, using the problem “Should we panic about bird flu?” for examples for each pillar – some of the content is student work. Model built by Sheila Webber/Yoshikawa Sheila Webber, July 2009 3D

30. This is being adapted and developed into a build focusing on problems/questions about H1 N1 (Swine flu) see the section on the http://infolitischool.pbworks.com/ site if you are interested in this project This will be used to discuss the whole process of solving an information problem, as a focus for an information quest related to H1N1, for activities focusing on one particular pillar etc. Sheila Webber, July 2009