*Event in Second Life, 3 Sept: Information Literacy at the IFLA conference*
On 3 September 2009, there will be a one hour event in Second Life (SL), the
virtual world.
The time is 12 noon - 1pm SL time: this is the same as US Pacific time: for
times in other countries/ time zones (e.g. this is 8pm in the UK) go to
http://tinyurl.com/kqmc2p
The place is Infolit iSchool:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/126/243/21/
Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in SL) will give feedback on the Information
Literacy sessions at the IFLA conference that took place in Milan, Italy, 22-26
August 2009.
There will be time for discussion of issues raised and (if there are other
delegates there!) get other views of the IFLA conference.
Sheila is a member of the International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions Information Literacy Section committee.
The programme, with many papers linked full text, is at
http://www.ifla.org/annual-conference/ifla75/programme2009-en.php
**Note that to participate you must have the SL browser installed (download from
secondlife.com) and have registered a SL avatar (also on the SL site).**
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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
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The information literacy weblog - http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
Sheila Yoshikawa (SL) blog: http://adventuresofyoshikawa.blogspot.com/
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