Today there is
*** The opening of "What information/literacy means to me", an installation
inspired, and based around, quotations about what information and information
literacy mean (drawn from research with UK academics and with Syrian school
librarians).
Date/time: launch at 1am SL time on 13th November (and ongoing)
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/46/33/700/
*** Panel session"Web 2.0 Approaches to IL"
Information Literacy Week in SL Panel sponsored by ACRL in SL, produced by MLIS
students at the University of Hawaii. Panelists discuss aspects including the
uses of, potential of, integration of, and convergence of Information Literacy
and Web 2.0 technologies.
Moderator: (Alexandria Knight) Esther Grassian, UCLA
Panelists: (Sheila Yoshikawa) Sheila Webber, U. Sheffield; (Buk Binder) Marsha
Schnirring, Occidental College; (Robin Mochi) Robin Ashford, George Fox
University; (Alice Burgess) Beth Kraemer, University of Kentucky
Date/ time: November 13, Noon-1pm SLT (for other times, see
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=13&month=11&year=2009&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=234)
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ALA%20Island/56/191/28
*** Ongoing exhibits
**Health Literacy is important to help you understand and manage your
health care decisions and needs. Our interactive exhibit will test your
knowledge about stroke (brain attack), heart attack and some common medical
terminology.
Exhibit organised by Brielle Coronet, RL Medical Librarian
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/healthinfo%20island/18/25/22/
**HIV Testing and Information Literacy
Karuna Island is the Second Life sim devoted to celebrating the lives of those
dealing with HIV/AIDS and making information, support, and creative services
available to them in the SL community. Robin Mochi, Karuna Island Consumer
Health Librarian, has created an interactive mindmap on HIV Testing using the
SCONUL 7 Pillars of Information Literacy.
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Karuna/33/50/23
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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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