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Lunchtime Listens: Info Island Project on Second Life
A recent SirsiDynix Institute presentation by Michael Sauers and Rhonda Trueman titled The Info Island Project on Second Life is a hour long overview of Second Life in general and library/university activities in Second Life in particular. I was particularly surprised to find that the Kansas State Library has a Second Life branch. I'll try to check it out sometime this week and get back to you if there is a govdocs angle. This is a great presentation if you want to know what all the fuss is about. The talk even has a set of "reality checks" to help you decide whether you want to check out Second Life. If I haven't mentioned it before, I have to admit that I haven't been active in Second Life for quite awhile and only just recently reinstalled the software. But I'm glad to see people with more time than I exploring and using these kinds of technology. Continue reading
Lunchtime Listens: “Who’s Watching YOUR Space?â€
Ok, this one might be several lunchtimes, but I wanted to make sure it's out there. I attended the OCLC Symposium: “Who’s Watching YOUR Space?†at Midwinter ALA in Seattle. The symposium was an extended discussion about social networking practices and trends. It was truly fascinating The panelists included Michael Stephens, Howard Rheingold, Danah Boyd, and Marc Smith. While they were all intriguing, if you're only going to listen to 1 of them, make it Howard's talk. Howard starts out, "I'd probably be in the penitentiary today if it weren't for librarians!" and it gets better and better! The Webcast is 2.5 hours, but here's the 3 minute sneak peak: Continue reading
Lunchtime listens: code4lib conference
This is the first post of what we're calling "Lunchtime listens." The idea being that there's LOTS of good audio/video out there of direct or peripheral interest to the documents community. We're going to post them to FGI to make them more easily findable and give y'all something to do during your lunch breaks (alone or in groups as a brownbag viewing session :-) ) besides staring out the window (not that there's anything *wrong* with staring out the window!). If you come across A/V that you'd like to share with FGI readers, please email us at admin AT freegovinfo DOT info. And without further adieu, Check out the video from the 2007 code4lib conference in Athens, GA. Day one is online including keynote by Karen Schneider, Emily Lynema's talk on "free the data," breakout sessions and lightning talks. Their plan is to put video from the entire conference online. I know several people who went to Code4lib and were completely blown away by the energy, discussions, and community! Code4lib is a "group for folks who are interested in the convergence of computers and library/information science." In other words, they're a growing community of library hackers, developers, open source advocates and fellow travelers who have an active listserv, irc channel etc for communication and support. Continue reading
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