NZSOE at VALA 2008 (3)

Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA. Do we remove the walls? Second Life Librarianship.

• This was one of the conference sessions which was most surprising and challenging for me. How could it relate to a Trade Library and Information Service?


• Kathryn had created a whole world - 'a cultural archipelago with 40 islands' - a consistent fictional world


• curating an Australian Libraries Island


• Avatars, Islands, Buildings, Objects


• Could we have exporter avatars? Lucy Commodity and James P.Roduct?


• Could they go to a building to get information on exporting to Sweden where is a SL Embassy?


• Could LIS set up a building? At what cost?


• In following up Second Life, I found there is already the concept of businesses and organization in second life


• Wikipedia article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

Graeme

Photo: Outside the New Zealand School of Export, Aokautere Park. Autumn morning 25 March 2008 / Graeme Siddle.