Long time readers of our blog will remember that we started the Virtual Libraries Interact blog back in late 2006 as a sister site to our blog.
Unfortunately due to a number of reasons the Virtual Libraries Interact blog has been languishing for a while and no new posts have been added.
It with some regret, and [...]

If, unlike my avatar, yours has 8000 lindens (about US$30), you can register to take part in the Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums conference.
“The purpose of this conference is to provide a gathering place for librarians, information professionals, educators, museologists, and others to learn about and discuss the educational, informational, and cultural opportunities of [...]

I’m giving a paper about Second Life Librarianship for the VALA conference this Tuesday. I’m showing a couple of little movies I’ve made of Info Island and the Australian Libraries Building that I’ll link to when I’ve added sound.
Here’s the details
Tuesday 5 February 2008   1120 – 1150
CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Library 2.0
Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, [...]

Our very own Kathryn Greenhill has joined with CAVAL to offer one day workshops in Sydney and Melbourne on Second Life.
“Are YOU ready to “fly, teleport and change appearance at will”? Many library users are already leading mysterious double lives, but are Online Virtual Worlds an over-hyped Web 2.0 bubble or the Next Big Thing?”
Course [...]

Couldn’t make it to the discussion of “The Librarians” in Second Life but wish you had?
The Transcript is here.

The entire library community knows about this bit:
The Librarians, is a new six-part comedy series from the ABC, based around the highly-strung head librarian of an outer suburban Melbourne library. This new social satire premieres on Wednesday October 31 at 9.30pm. You can also watch it online at abc.net.au/tv/librarians from 10:00pm.

But did you know [...]

The other day Peta posted an item over at librariesinteract.info about the Beyond Paper Bag project. In it she mentioned the unAPI plugin for WordPress. WordPress is the software that we use here to run the blog.
Recently WordPress version 2.3 was announced and I upgraded both librariesinteract.info and virtual.librariesinteract.info today. If you noticed something odd [...]

As reported in The Wired Campus, there is a new competitor for Second Life.
Kaneva is described as a cross between Facebook and a virtual world, or as one commenter said “Sims meets MySpace”. A review of Kaneva is available at metaversed, by Nick Wilson.
And you can check out the Kaneva promotional video on their home [...]

Journal of Information Literacy, Vol 1, No 2 (2007) has just been published. Lisa Foggo has a short article published there evaluating facilities in EduNation in Second Life as an information literacy training resource.
This paper aims to identify the value of the virtual world Second Life, and the educational facilities available in EduNation within Second [...]

If you really want to know about Second Life Librarianship, then this six week online course may be for you. It does run at about 1am on Saturdays, our time..but apart from that…
Virtual World Librarianship – Your Second Life
“Avatars! Linden Dollars! Librarianship!
Librarianship? What ARE they talking about?
To discover how avatars, Linden dollars, and librarianship [...]