- Volunteers needed for the following projects:
- SLL demo for Congress
- Health Info Island assistance
- Machinima library and course
- Virtual reference shifts
- Collections help
- Web Presence
- Greeters
- Tour guides
- Discussion leaders for Buzz sessions (informal 1 hour chats on a topic.
Details follow!
In Attendance:
Abbey Zenith
Adeghord Malthus
Alphonsus Peck
Blue Wings Hayek
Cerulean Vesperia
Calliope Wexler
Catherine Chenille
Claudia Seaton
Corinne
Dave Koi
Dinnie Devinshire
Dirisha Utu
Donna Upshaw
Drew Rodinia
Elaine Tulip
Emerald Dumont
Floria Hand
Franja Russell
Galen Noltenius
Gillyflower Pannotia
HVX Silverstar
Hypatia Dejavu
Ilene Pratt
Jaclyn Sparrow
Jeremy Kabumpo
Jillianna Suisei
Jim Enoch
JJ Drinkwater
Krag Mariner
Lebachai Vesta
Lorelei Junot
Lynne Janus
Marimar Berchot
Peace Furst
Princess Ivory
Puglet Dancer
Rocky Vallejo
Rebekah Cavan
Rowan Fairgrove
Shinji Usobuki
Step Barrymore
Swann Proost
Tavker Twin
Wellendorf Chihuly
Upcoming Meetings:
- Pajama Party: Friday February 9 at Club TX950!
- Reference meeting: Sunday February 11 at 6:00 PM SL
- Advisory Group Meeting: Monday February 12 at 11 AM SL
- Staff Meeting: Sunday February 25 at 6 PM SL
Volunteers needed for the following projects:
- A demo for Congress is in the works. Contact: Lorelei Junot
- Health Info Island continues to expand; help needed with partnerships. Contacts: Carolina Keats and Namro Orma
- Aspiring filmmakers to help with a machinima library that will include a course in how to make machinima. Contact: HVX Silverstar
- Coverage still needed for reference shifts. Contact: Hypatia Dejavu
- There is an ongoing need for collections help. Contact: Abbey Zenith
- Volunteers with a variety of skills - both tech and non-tech - are needed for maintaining and improving our web presence. Contact Adeghord Malthus (drogheda at gmail.com) if interested.
- Greeters needed, no MLS required. Contact: Willow Kindley
- Discussion leaders for informal one hour chats modeled after the NMC’s Teacher Buzz starting up on Tue nights. Contact: Lorelei Junot
We need your help! Suggestions for ways for ALA to get active in SL welcomed; Contact: by Galen Noltenius or Jenny Levine via http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com
New Projects:
- Bryan Carter, a teacher at Central Missouri State University has just received funding to do a replica of Harlem in the 20s. He has asked us for help with building the library and services like a New York public branch in the 20s. We are setting up a meeting with him and Lorelei will post it to the group for anyone interested.
- Jeremy Kabumpo is the first full-time employee in the California State University System dedicated to Second Life. He has a team of eight graduate students on the project and they are running a Second Life skills class in the summer at the School of Library and Information Sciences – 1800 full time students. Their island is kitty-corner from Info Island. Jeremy Kabumpo’s mandate is to serve the community here - to build a learning community.
- HVX Silverstar is going to start a machinima library on Arts Island that includes developing a 10 week continuing ed course. She will need a lot of help so that we can let the community know how machinima will fit for instruction, marketing and outreach. Machinima is a portmanteau, as many of you may already know, for machine + cinema or animation. We have built into our SL browsers the capabilities for becoming filmmakers.
- Four tours are scheduled this week – dates on the Google Calendar. Thanks to Jilliana and Rosmarita for coordinating & conducting!
- New Media Consortium has a weekly program called Teacher's Buzz. Each week there is an informal one-hour chat on a different topic and leader. Contact Lori to set up something similar on Info Island.
Info Archipelago Updates:
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- We are now at 13 islands: 8 Info Islands and5 partners. New Islands:
- ALA Arts Island is for ALA; Kain Scalia is building a replica of a European opera house
- Imagination Island has Rachelville and Vendor Village for library vendors
- Cybrary City 2 for libraries needing larger space and willing to pay at cost
- An Alliance building for us all to share for projects is in the works. The two search buildings will come down, and searches will be placed in the ALS building, it is a very large and beautiful structure.
Upcoming Presentations and Publications
- The local newspaper in Charlotte NC should have an article out this weekend about the TG and InfoIsland
- Lorelei Junot is speaking to Michigan Library Consortium next week
- Cerulean Vesperia, Ray Lightworker and BlueWings Hayek will be doing 5 weeks to a social library presentation on SL and virtual worlds
- Alexandria helped with a proposal that was accepted by ACRL and Puglet and Abbey will be presenting a poster session.
- Abbey Zenith is I am also doing the Cyber Zed Shed on technology at the ACRL conference
- Emerald Dumont sis I'm doing a public talk at the National Library of Australia on Tuesday Feb 14th
- Kari Meadowbrook is talking to CUNY library group
- Computers in Libraries is in April; Lorelei Junot, Maxito Ricardo, Blue Wings Hayek and Ray Lightworker are presenting; a dinner meetup is in the works
- Drew and Joe C and Ilene Pratt are doing Florida Library Association in April
- Kitty Pope is giving a program for ALA on Second Life project as part of participatory networks in libraries
- Lorelei Junot is presenting a program for social software at ALA
- HVX Silverstar has applied to talk at IFLA but won't know until Feb 15; topics is Second Life and machinima & instruction, outreach, marketing
- Cerulean Vesperia has been invited to present at the NELA Conference in October 2007; New England librarians interested in participating should contact her
- An application for a demo for Congress is in the works; Mark is working on it
Ideas for a new project? Contact Lorelei or Abbey.
Web Presence Update by Adeghord Malthus
We now have our own web hosting account now which will allow me sharing of the many of the administrative duties. Our content is being duplicated on the new account. Ade is also taking the opportunity to upgrade our versions of PHP, Drupal, and Wordpress. When everything is ready to go there *will* be an interruption of all infoisland.org services while the new location propagates through the domain name space (DNS). Ade be sure to give everyone warning well in advance. Links will NOT change:
Blog: http://infoisland.org
Worksite: http://infoisland.org/drupal
Exhibits Update by Lorelei Junot
Shadow and Medium and others put together an Alzheimer’s exhibit that has been very well received and attended
Health Info Island Update
CDC and NIH have expressed interest in working with us
CE Update by Lorelei Junot
Program on MySpace sponsored by Michigan LC was wonderful and attended by over 50 people; other groups are having CE programs in their separate buildings or on Cybrary City.
Teen Info Island Update by Blue Wings Hayek
- The teens are very interested in anything they can do to help out. There was a meeting on Sunday and another scheduled for this weekend for 10 AM SL - anyone w/background check is free to join; we're always looking for help. Traffic counts have been up to 6000
- Background checks shouldn’t take long – before going to the TG, check to see what your avatar could take over.
- YA Author Marc Aronson wants us to do a program on the TG for his new books
Teen Tech Week is March 4-10- we're planning things on the TG, and can we do things on the main grid, as well
Reference Update by Hypatia Dejavu
- We have 24 volunteers covering 50 hours
- We're getting statistics now, and seeing that we are answering a lot of questions, as well as being one of the few live services out there
- The first official reference meeting is next Sunday, February 11 at 6:00 PM SL
- Anyone who wants to volunteer for virtual reference should contact Hypatia
Science Fiction Update by Floria Hand
- Talis Portal handles collections and programming related to Science Fiction and Fantasy. We are featuring Stephen King's The Stand this month at the Portal, and Grizzy Griswold will lead a book discussion on it on Tuesday, Feb 20 at 6:30 PM SL
- Later this week we will launch a display on Black Authors of Speculative Fiction. An art exhibit and some author talks are in the works, so stay tuned for more info on those
Mystery Manor Update by Jenna Darrow
A detective fiction book discussion led by Maxito Ricardo is in the works for the end of February. More info is forthcoming.
Genealogy Update by Abbey Zenith
The Genealogy group has an exhibit on African American Genealogy research and a planned speaker on 2/21 to cover researching pension papers (US).
Collections Update by Abbey Zenith
- Shinji Usobuki is working on a display of digital resources and will continue that with a collection
- A collection for banned books in the main library is in the works
- Willow Kindley and Abbey Zenith are working on a gaming collection
Grants Update by Lorelei Junot
- We submitted an IMLS grant for education - library graduate education, CE, and for library schools to have a place to try; we will find out in May
- We also have an NSF grant in for science and we are going to input another one to NSF
- A small group is working on another IMLS grant
- Lori will be talking with the MacArthur Foundation – they are giving grants for digital learning
ALA Washington Update by Galen Noltenius
- We are looking for groups to set up booths on capital hill on the Tuesday of annual conference in DC. ALA Washington office who is organizing this and we are looking for innovative things libraries are doing. More info can be found at blogs.ala.org/districtdispatch.php or email Andy Bridges-- abridges AT alawash DOT org. A proposal for a Second Life Library display is in the works
- the president released his budget for the federal government today and LSTA funding got an increase of something like $15 million. More info can be found at the above mentioned blog
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