2010 LILAC Conference (UK Information Literacy Conf) Report on InfoLit iSchool Island

How can librarians afford professional development of this quality any other way?
I'm consistently amazed by the quality of professional development opportunities afforded me by participating in virtual worlds. This presentation is taking place at this moment on the University of Sheffield founded island, InfoLit iSchool, in Second Life. Librarians are here from around the globe (only a few from USA). I really love what I learn from such diverse groups of librarians in this way. I still can't believe I attend these discussions/presentations and some very large events all for no cost other than the time it takes me to login on my laptop. Truly an amazing time for educators to be able to connect like never before. I'll add text from a notecard handed out in SL below.
InfoLit iSchool April 2010
Screen shot of InfoLit iSchool discussion on LILAC
Towards the end of the discussion Pancha Enzyme rezzed a QR code and shared how they are being used in libraries-an excellent presentation by Ishbel Hartmann & Pancha Enzyme!
InfoLit iSchool LILAC Report April 8, 2010
Below is part of the text from a notecard handed out at the beginning of this discussion: *****Report from the LILAC conference: General information and links

Meeting held on Infolit iSchool,  Second Life, 8th April 2010
(This notecard compiled by Sheila Yoshikawa, 8 April 2010)

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LILAC is the major information literacy conference in the UK. The website says “LILAC is aimed at librarians and information professionals who teach information literacy skills, are interested in digital literacies and want to improve the information seeking and evaluation skills of all our library users whoever they may be.”
In 2010 it was held 29-31 March, in Limerick, Ireland. Pancha Enzyme and Ishbel Hartmann will present their highlights from the conference. We also welcome views from anyone else who was at the conference!

This notecard has some links to reports etc. about the conference. I will also be putting these on my blog tomorrow: http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/

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The main LILAC website is at http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/
The Twitter stream is http://twitter.com/lilac_2010

Mayo Clinic in Second Life, Lee Aase, social media guru, and the 2010 ICSI/IHI Colloquium in May

Giving the term “virtual colonoscopy” a whole new meaning, Mayo Clinic hosted its first presentation in Second Life on March 31, 2010. I missed this event but recently stopped by to check out their SL island and took these snapshots. It looks to me to be developing nicely and I look forward to future presentations.

From the site above: "In recognition of March as Colon and Rectal Cancer Awareness Month, Paul Limburg. M.D., of Mayo Clinic’s Departments of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Preventive, Occupational, and Aerospace Medicine will be giving a lecture in Second Life on 'Tools & Tips to Prevent Colorectal Cancer.'"

After the event Lee Aase, Mayo Clinic manager for Syndications and Social Media, wrote a nice post on his SMUG site titled "First Event in Second Life." I was especially interested in his impressions as it was the first time he attended a Second Life event.

In this informative blog post, ICSI President, Dr. Kent Bottles, mentions Lee Aase, "Mayo Clinic social media guru," will give a lecture at the 2010 ICSI/IHI Colloquium, there will be a panel with social media pioneers like Ben Heywood and Jen McCabe as well.

I will also be there presenting as part of the innovation track on, "How Doctors, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and Patients Use Second Life."  As Dr. Bottles stated "This is not your usual conference."

It's not too late to register and join us for the 2010 ICSI/IHI Colloquium on Health Care Transformation May 3-5, 2010 in St. Paul, MN.

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Ready for my presentation at 11AM PST in Second Life-AIDS Epidemic Update

 

Ready for my presentation at 11AM PST in Second Life-AIDS Epidemic Update
Today I'll be sharing key information from the AIDS epidemic update December 2009 report: http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/JC1700_Epi_Update_2009_en.pdf Please join me if you can in the Karuna Resource Center (click link below). If you can't, please read the report as this epidemic impacts us all. If you have a SL account:

Update: The presentation went well and had some interesting visitors all of whom were quite interested and knowledgeable of the global AIDS epidemic. Here's a flickr link of a few snapshots I took during the presentation.


EDUCAUSE Learning Institute #ELI2010 now in Second Life

EDUCAUSE Learning Institute #ELI2010 now in Second Life
There are currently 34 educators in Second Life in the PSU World Campus Amphitheatre. We're here listening to Malcolm Brown and others intoduce the key trends and challenges of the 2010 Horizon Report: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report.pdf Larry Johnson is now sharing more about the report. If you have a SL account and would like to join us here is the SLurl:

HIV/AIDS questions? I'm available to help on the reference desk in the Karuna Resource Center in Second Life

 

HIV/AIDS questions? I'm available to help on the reference desk in the Karuna Resource Center in Second Life
I'm, Robin Mochi in SL and the Karuna Consumer Health Librarian working one of my live help shifts in Second Life. I'm here to help any who stop by with HIV/AIDS information needs. I'm also working on my next presentation which will feature the latest World Health Organziation HIV/AIDS report, scheduled to take place here this Wednesday at 11AM PST .

Really do love this job, will miss it when the grant is over on April 1, 2010.

Today Robin Mochi in WOW & Second Life Simultaneously

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Very interesting morning learning World of Warcraft. Had to leave WOW to work my reference desk shift in the Karuna Resource Center in Second Life (SL) in my position as Consumer Health Librarian. I spent a few minutes in both simultaneously and that's what this screenshot shows (shocked it didn't crash my computer to run both).

Also posted a screenshot of my first hour in WOW on flickr here:

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The following description explains a little about what I'm doing and why:

A bit of an experiment - was asked by a faculty member teaching at UCSD to assist with a research component for his course being taught in WOW. As an academic librarian working with the academic community in SL, how could I say no?

So as in SL, I am a blue female in WOW (albeit a troll). Should be interesting comparing these two environments. I have a fair amount of experience teaching and learning in SL for my university and have been involved and following educational developments in SL, including the work and roles of librarians, for some time. I'm interested in learning how the WOW environment is being used for educational purposes. And of course, where does the librarian fit when courses are being taught in these environments. What is our role? More to come as I explore and learn in WOW.

New Display-World Health Organization & HIV/AIDS in Second Life Karuna Resource Center

 

New Display-World Health Organization & HIV/AIDS in Second Life Karuna Resource Center
Just completed a new World Health Organization display by adding a stand with object to click for a new report by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and World Health Organization (WHO) 2009 PDF "AIDS epidemic update December 2009" which can be found:
For those not using Second Life (SL), the three other images displayed on objects here take Karuna RC visitors to the following World Health Organization HIV/AIDS information pages: http://www.who.int/hiv/en/ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2009/world_aids_20091130/en/inde... http://www.who.int/hiv/events/implementers2009/en/index.html

Those not familiar with SL may wonder what the point is of my work here since this information exists on the web already. I think about my position as the Karuna Consumer Health Librarian in terms of serving as a type of digital curator. Yes, the information exists on the web, but I carefully choose, upload and maintain what I display using criteria based on the needs of SL users and visitors to the Karuna Island (HIV/AIDS National Library of Medicine grant funded island).

Does this make sense? Suggestions/comments/criticisms are welcome.

The University of Edinburgh librarians in Second Life discussion continues

 

The University of Edinburgh librarians in Second Life discussion continues
As mentioned in my prior post this discussion is on Information Services for learners in Second Life (via Edinburgh librarian) http://tinyurl.com/yksjorb
This picture shows the group after we left the table out on the back deck and we're now out front examining the IS cream van this university is using to provide help to their distance learners - interesting concept and the van works surprisingly well. Creative project and according to their statistics thus far, quite successful.
(As soon as the chatlog of this discussion is posted online, I'll link to that here.)