[Asis-l] Mon 13 June: iSchool conference in SL: Mon, Sanchez, Ford, Parker, Grassian, Webber

[Sheila A Webber]

Join us on Monday 13 June in Second Life (SL) to celebrate the launch
of the UK’s  iSchool, the University of Sheffield's Information School

Times are Second Life times: Start time is 11am SL time (= Pacific
time), 7pm UK time, 2pm EST,
see http://tinyurl.com/5uf9wvk for times elsewhere

Location is Infolit iSchool in the virtual world, Second Life.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/149/171/21
You need a SL avatar and a computer with the SL browser to participate

11:00 SLT: Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in SL), Senior Lecturer,
the iSchool, University of Sheffield & Director of the Centre for
Information Literacy Research. Introduction to the iSchool and opening
of the Exhibition of posters (on the iSchool's research and teaching)

11:15 SLT: Dr Lorri Mon (Lorri Momiji in SL), Assistant Professor,
College of Communication and Information, Florida State University.
Libraries and social media. [Presentation in voice]

12.00 SLT: Dr Joe Sanchez (North Lamar in SL), Assistant Professor,
School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University.
Reconfigurable culture: a journey through cyber ethnography.
[Presentation in voice]

12:45 SLT: Lyn Parker, (Maggie Kohime in SL), Head of Academic
Development, Sheffield University Library leads a text chat
discussion: The potential benefits of having an iSchool/ library
network for information literacy. with special contribution from
Esther Grassian (Alexandria Knight in SL), Information Literacy
Librarian, UCLA College Library

13.30 SLT: Professor Nigel Ford (Nigl Forder in SL) and Sheila Webber
launch the project on Deep critical information behaviour, funded by
the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council [Presentation and
discussion in text chat]

14.15 SLT: Close. Poster exhibition will remain on Infolit iSchool.

Second Life is a trademark of Linden Lab

iSchools website at http://www.ischools.org/

University of Sheffield iSchool website http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/
"Consistently ranked number one in its subject field in every Research
Assessment Exercise since 1986, ranked first in the Complete
University Guide 2011, and employing award winning world leading
researchers, the Information School is still the best of its kind in
the UK"

-- 
Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer & Director of the Centre for
Information Literacy Research, Information School, University of
Sheffield, UK
s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk
Phone: +44 114 222 2641
Second Life & Twitter: Sheila Yoshikawa
The Information Literacy Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/