Librarian as Avatar: A Second Life for You

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Librarian as AvatarA Second Life for You?
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Technologycreatesfeasibility spacesfor social
practice.

• Yochai Benkler, 2006
• The Wealth of Networks
• How Social Production Transforms
• Markets and Freedoms

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That said
Technologycreatesfeasibility spacesfor social
practice.

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Construct

• virtual reality avatars Habitat
• sandbox 3D-virtual world
• Snow Crash Metaverse
• Cyberpunk Hiro Protagonist
• Librarian
• communities of practice
• mmorpg ?NOT MUVE YES!

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Technology

• 1999 Philip Rosedale
• 10,000 processor cores
• VOIP
• Linden scripting language
• Open Source SL Viewer software
• Tao of Linden
• machinima

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E C O N O M Y
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Geography

• SJSU SLIS Info Island Imagination Island
  Cybrary City EdTech Stanford
  University Libraries

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getting about in-world
teleport
walk
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Libraries

• Info Islands I II
• Health Info Island
• Alliance Library System
• Caledon Branch Library
• Cibrary City Islands
• Eye4YouAlliance (Teen)
• Cleveland PL
• State Library of Kansas
• UCLA

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Librarians
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just-in-time info
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pick-up instruction
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VDE
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Suppose that now, for the first time in
history, we are able to arrange our concepts
without the silent limitations of the
physical.
Suppose
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• How might our
• ideas,
• organizations,
• and knowledge itself
• change?

David Weinberger, 2007 Everything is
Miscellaneous The Power of the New Digital
Disorder
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