[Web4lib] Announcement: ALA Midwinter Mtg of the VCL MIG

[Tom Peters]

Greetings!

Everyone interested in virtual communities, virtual worlds, and ways in which libraries can serve (and are serving) virtual communities is invited to attend the first ever in-person meeting of the ALA VCL MIG (Virtual Communities and Libraries, Member Initiative Group).  Here’s your chance to get in on the virtual ground floor!


WHEN:  Saturday, January 12, 2008 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time


WHERE:  The Franklin 10 Room (out of thousands of Franklin rooms in Philly — accept no substitutes), 
Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, 1201 Market Street  
  
( Number 1 – in red, with a star -- on the ALA hotel map available at http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2008/phillymap.pdf )


·        Learn about and discuss what libraries are doing in Active Worlds, Second Life, Teen Second Life, Whyville, and other virtual worlds


·        Explore the nature of the information needs and preferences of the residents of these virtual worlds


·        Learn how virtual communities of interest form, grow, and evolve


·        Have input into the ALA VCL MIG’s program at ALA Annual in Anaheim 
(Yes, Annual is only six months away and we’re still planning the program — revolutionary!)


·        Learn why the MIG is the most flexible and funkadelic aspect of the structure of our association.  


·        Move boldly into the future for librarianship



For more information about the ALA VCL MIG, please visit its wiki:


http://wikis.ala.org/readwriteconnect/index.php/ALA_Member_Initiative_Groups 

 
Tom Peters (Maxito Ricardo in Second Life; Maxito6 in Whyville)  
 
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