[Neasis-l] NEASIST Free event: Do we need a 2nd Life? - seats avail at 7:15p

[Caryn Anderson]

** Please excuse duplicate postings **

DO WE NEED A SECOND LIFE?:
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN A VIRTUAL WORLD

Wednesday, 17 October
A FEW SEATS STILL AVAILABLE FOR THE 7:15-8:15p SESSION

Graduate School of Library and Information Science Technology Lab
2nd Floor of Building #5 at Simmons College, Boston, MA
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/visit/directions.shtml

Register here:
http://www.neasist.org/pc/programs/20071017.html

Join us for another FREE evening of learning, networking and noshing
with your colleagues at the New England and Simmons Student chapters of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

- Have you been curious about Second Life (http://secondlife.com/) but
cautious about exploring it?
- Have you wondered how your library and information services might be
of value in this rapidly growing virtual world?
- Have you taken a look at the website and thought, "Well, the flying
part looks very cool, but there goes my whole weekend!"?

If so, you will want to come to this special FREE event and get a guided
introduction to:

- Learn how to get started quickly in Second Life
- Hear from educators who have been developing user instruction and
library and information science education activities in Second Life
- Team up with "residents" of Second Life and meet up with other "teams"
at the Second Life Library and travel together to other related sites

We will be conducting two sessions according to the following schedule:

7:15pm
- Candy Schwartz, Professor and Coordinator of Doctoral Studies at
Simmons College
- Megan Fox, Web and Electronic Resources Librarian at Simmons College

Candy and Megan will give a brief introduction to Second Life and
discuss their grant-funded project to develop library user instruction
and library and information science education activities in Second Life

7:35pm
Candy, Megan and other experienced "residents" of Second Life will each
team up with 2-3 observers around computers and show their team briefly
how to log in, setup and move around. All of the "residents" and their
teams of observers will proceed through the Second Life environment to
meet up at the Second Life Library for a demonstration in the classroom
there. En route, "residents" will further educate their observing team
members about facets of Second Life.

8:15pm
Session concludes and participants are invited to adjourn for
refreshments and networking.

Attendees at the second session are encouraged to arrive early for
refreshments and networking at 6:30pm.

The event is free but space is VERY limited. Register as soon as
possible here:
http://www.neasist.org/pc/programs/20071017.html
-- 
Caryn Anderson
Doctoral Studies Program Manager
GSLIS, Simmons College
300 The Fenway, P-310H
Boston, MA  02115
caryn.anderson at simmons.edu
617.521.2829
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/academics/programs/doctoral/