The second annual “Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, and Museums (VW LEM)” Conference will be held in Second Life on Friday and Saturday, April 24 & 25, 2009. The conference will provide a gathering place for librarians, information professionals, educators, museologists, and others to learn about and discuss the educational, informational, and cultural opportunities of virtual [...]
In-world Wednesdays: Monroe County Library System’s Monthly Author Visit in Second Life
March Visiting Author: Lois Gresh (Bobo Fromund in Second Life)
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 8 pm Eastern Time (5 pm Pacific Time)
Location: The MCLS Amphitheater in Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City%20II/68/100/22
The Creative Process: Writing for Different Audiences
New York Times Best-Selling Author Lois Gresh, author of 19 [...]
Game Design and Development is huge. It’s a field that is growing now and will continue to grow as gaming environments become more ubiquitous.
The Association for Women in Computing Upstate New York Chapter is sponsoring a talk on gaming technology and related career opportunities at Rochester Institute of Technology on Thursday, January 22.
Come learn about the [...]
Here is a press release sent by John S. Howard about an event that takes place next week:
“Stepping into Science” Next in Popular “Stepping into Virtual Worlds” Series
Using virtual worlds to teach and promote a love of science is the topic of the next installment of the popular “Stepping into Virtual Worlds” conference series, to [...]
I attended Rochester Institute of Technology’s “official” launch of it’s virtual island in Second Life yesterday. It was a well-attended event: about 40 avatars were at RIT Island when I logged in and RIT staff members said there were a lot of Real Life visitors as well.
RIT has been using Second Life as another vehicle [...]
Here’s another event worth noting:
The Program for the Future Conference is “An Invitation to Innovation. An interactive conference inspired by Doug Engelbart’s vision of harnessing technology for human betterment. “
The conference takes place Monday (12/08/08) at The Tech Museum of Innovation and Adobe Headquarters in San Jose, and then on Tuesday (12/09/08) at Stanford University. And for those of us [...]
Will you be in the New York City area this weekend? Make a point of getting yourself to She’s Geeky.
The cocktail party begins tonight at 5:30 p.m. and the unconference runs through Sunday at 3:00 p.m.
Here’s the blurb I received from Renee Lloyd. It looks like this will be a great opportunity to connect with [...]
The Big Read comes to Cybrary City II on Wednesday, May 14 at 5:00 pm (SLT). Join us as Rebekah Cavan leads a lively discussion of Fahrenheit 451, censorship and the value of books at The Monroe County Library System Amphitheater in Second Life.
The discussion starts at 5:00 pm SLT, but get there early [...]
This came in my email today:
Announcing the One Big Library Unconference
http://onebiglibrary.yorku.ca/
E-mail: onebig@yorku.ca
When: Friday 27 June 2008, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Where: The Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“It seems like there are lot of different kinds of libraries:
public libraries, school libraries, university libraries, college
libraries, law libraries, medical [...]
Women In Technology Summit
http://www.womenintechnologysummit.com/
The second annual Women in Technology Summit (WiTS!) will be held on the Harvard University Campus on Saturday, February 16, 2008. Registration is available online and completely FREE.
On Tuesday, December 4th Dana Paxson and I will be giving a presentation for the Rochester Speculative Literature Writers Association on the future of fiction. We will be discussing emerging technology and it’s impact on writers. Dana will demonstrate his Electronic Literary Macrame, I will give a tour of Second Life, and we will both discuss how writers [...]
We had a wonderful visit from author Robert J. Sawyer last night at the Science Fiction Library in Second Life. His avatar, SF Writer, chatted with us for close to two hours about a number of interesting topics including his newest book, Rollback.
Rob is always a pleasure to listen to (or in this case, to [...]
Robert J. Sawyer will be visiting the Talis SciFi & Fantasy Portal, which is a library of science fiction and fantasy in Second Life. His newest book, Rollback, is the selection for this month’s book discussion, and we are delighted that the author will join us for this event with the help of his avatar, [...]
As expected, Stephen Abram’s talk today was informative and stimulating. He’s an extremely dynamic speaker and a guy who has his finger on the pulse of what’s happening in libraries, sciences, and society in general. He’s very sharp, quite good at predicting trends, knows where his research needs to be, and has a great sense [...]
I attended a pre-conference dinner tonight at the Rochester Hyatt. Tomorrow the Special Libraries Association will present a talk given by Stephen Abram on Library 2.0. I heard him speak last October and my entire outlook on my job as library IT person was changed. I’m very excited about the direction libraries are headed.
Tonight’s dinner [...]