[Asis-l] Presentation in SL: 6 Aug: Information providers in a virtual world

[Sheila Webber]

*Information providers in a virtual world*
Presentation taking place in Second Life (SL), the virtual world.
When: Thursday 6 August 2009,  12 noon - 1pm SL time ( = pacific time, go to 
http://tinyurl.com/kutq4x for other times)
Where: Infolit iSchool
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/126/243/21/
You need a SL avatar and the SL browser installed on your computer to
participate.

Lorri Mon (Lorri Momiji in SL), Assistant Professor, Florida State University,
College of Information) will report on her study. For background reading see:
Mon, L. (2009). “Questions and Answers in a Virtual World : Educators and
Librarians as Information Providers in Second Life.”
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Volume 2, Number 1 (April 2009). 
http://www.jvwresearch.org/v2n1_Mon.html

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Sheila Webber
Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, 
211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
0114 222 2641
s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk
The information literacy weblog - http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
Sheila Yoshikawa (SL) blog: http://adventuresofyoshikawa.blogspot.com/