Look out for Mark Hitchcock and Liberty Box next time you are inworld. They are very new but learning fast. Mark is already jumping about and even managed to crack up laughing. Many of you won’t have yet met Jemminy Platypus or HeyJude Jenns who joined the group about three weeks or so ago. By [...]

Wow! I’m going to give a talk on Second Life at the Australian National Library on Wednesday 14th February, 12:30 – 1:30pm in the Library Theatre as part of their “Digital Culture” series. Here’s the info from the web site: Flying Librarians of Oz: What’s the fuss about Second Life and what’s it got to [...]

OK..so there’s only a handful of us from the Antipodes..but at a library meeting tonight, there were enough library folk to crash Info Island. When we regrouped spontaneously in Cybrary City, there was speculation about why the porn and gambling sites don’t crash..but the energy of a group of librarians managed to bring the sim [...]

Ivan’s comment on CW’s post has prodded me into suggesting a time for another meetup. How about: Wednesday 27th December 7pm – 6pm Western Australian Time (I think that’s 2am SL time) Australian Libraries Building We were making noises about having a regular kind of “open house” meeting..so there’d be a time when you were [...]

Fancy tobogganing down a mountain range that represents a line graph of monthly reference queries? How about climbing from bar to bar that shows the cumulative number of loans per week? It’s possible in Second Life. That’s Emerald climbing up a floating pie chart in the Michigan Library Consortium building in Cybrary City. It shows [...]

I met Rain Noonan this morning. She deeded the library land to the Oz Lib group. You’ll notice she’s our newest member, as she had to join up to do so. Welcome Rain! … a phrase often said in Australia. That means: We can set objects so that any of us in the group can [...]

If we were a bit worse for wear from virtual beer and dancing at our party, then think of the Talis chaps at their office party last night. I found poor Ajax so out of it that his status was “away”, but he was still chugging back the lager and cutting up the dance floor [...]

Great party last night, though it does demonstrate why a faster/bigger computer and broadband link is a desirable gift at any time of the year! Following suggestions from the Library Generator at the party I came accross a wiki full of library blogs. And a bunch of other stuff to do with the “Library 2.0 [...]

I had a great time at the party last night. Although not many of us were there (we missed you snail and Ivan) I daresay those of us who were there enjoyed ourselves. Lorelei Junot, Abbey Zenith, Rocky Vallejo, Cindy Elkhart, JJ Drinkwater and Fleet Goldenberg, all US-based, stayed up to show us around and [...]

Exciting news at the end!! Oh adventures, adventures. It’s being with other people that makes Second Life worthwhile. A mob of old buildings without people are boring, but with other people, it’s magic. Here’s a couple of snapshots from the last two days. I never get to sit on the pink hippos at home! A [...]