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Laura Solomon / Lebachai Vesta Library Services Manager OPLIN [email_address] 101

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You?

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Today we’ll cover…

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Today we’ll cover… <ul><li>What is Second Life? </li></ul><ul><li>What does it take to run? </li></ul><ul><li>The SLL Project </li></ul><ul><li>Things to think about </li></ul><ul><li>Good and bad reasons to go inworld </li></ul>

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What is Second Life ? A 3D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents

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Virtual world, real dollars

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What Second Life isn’t game

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What can you do in Second Life?

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http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =b72CvvMuD6Q

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Webkinz it’s not

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Any big names in Second Life? <ul><li>Toyota </li></ul><ul><li>Sun Microsystems </li></ul><ul><li>CNN </li></ul><ul><li>Reuters </li></ul><ul><li>CNET </li></ul><ul><li>NPR </li></ul><ul><li>Adidas </li></ul><ul><li>Wired </li></ul><ul><li>NASA </li></ul><ul><li>Kraft </li></ul><ul><li>SirsiDynix </li></ul><ul><li>Countless colleges & universities </li></ul><ul><li>Many, many more… </li></ul>

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Anyone we know? <ul><li>Political candidates </li></ul><ul><li>Big musical names </li></ul><ul><li>Cleveland’s {red} an orchestra </li></ul>

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American Library Association

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Ohio University

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Case Western Reserve Library

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Appearances can be deceiving

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What does it take to run? <ul><li>Broadband connections </li></ul><ul><li>800MHz Pentium III or Athlon, or better processor </li></ul><ul><li>512M memory (1G recommended) </li></ul><ul><li>Video/graphics card: </li></ul><ul><li>nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better </li></ul><ul><li>OR </li></ul><ul><li>ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better </li></ul>

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Notes <ul><li>SL is like many pieces of software; not designed for public computing environments </li></ul><ul><li>Constant (mandatory!) updates </li></ul><ul><li>Requires significant time investment </li></ul>

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Vision of AVL <ul><li>“ To serve the citizens of an online world and build community using traditional and non-traditional library services and serving as a model for the twenty-first century library to determine how virtual library services will affect traditional libraries . “ </li></ul>

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Why is ALS here? <ul><li>Explore providing library services in a virtual world </li></ul><ul><li>Examine how libraries will remain relevant when more business & education activities take place in virtual worlds </li></ul><ul><li>Learn what kind of library services are desired in virtual space </li></ul>

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What happens at AVL?

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Renaissance island

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Land of Lincoln

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Chicago Public Schools

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San Jose’ State University SLIS

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Cleveland Public Library

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What’s worked?

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Things to consider

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The learning curve

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Lag and bugs (not a bug)

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Controversy over SL

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SL is not “Field of Dreams”

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Bad reasons to come to SL <ul><li>“ It’s where the users are” </li></ul><ul><li>“ It’s where ______ is” </li></ul><ul><li>“ It’s Library 2.0” </li></ul><ul><li>“ It’s easy to do” </li></ul><ul><li>“ We need to have a SL virtual branch” </li></ul>

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What does your library bring to the table?

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So why come to SL? <ul><li>Understand the gamer and their environment </li></ul><ul><li>Breakdown of professional isolation </li></ul><ul><li>It’s free, we can access it now and it has first mover advantages </li></ul><ul><li>Collaboration </li></ul><ul><li>Teaching flexibility </li></ul>

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Want to learn more? <ul><li>IM me inworld (I’m Lebachai Vesta) </li></ul><ul><li>Check out www.infoisland.org and www.secondlife.com </li></ul>