Do we remove all the walls? Second Life librarianship

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Do we remove all the walls? Second Life librarianship

Over five hundred librarians worldwide are experimenting with providing library services in the Multi User Virtual Environment (MUVE) called Second Life, including a small group of Australian librarians who constructed the Australian Libraries Building. This paper describes the interface and capabil...

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Main Author:	Greenhill, Kathryn
Other Authors:	N/A
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	VALA: Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc. 2008
Subjects:	libraries multiuser virtual environments multi user virtual environments second life librarianship emerging technologies
Online Access:	http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/608-vala2008-session-1-greenhill http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28802

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