More questions than answers: the reflections of Maggie Kohime, a virtual librarian in Second Life

Parker, Lyn (2008) More questions than answers: the reflections of Maggie Kohime, a virtual librarian in Second Life. Aliss Quarterly, 3 (2). pp. 13-17. ISSN 1747-9258

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Abstract

Librarians are already in Second Life in considerable numbers; providing reference services, offering tours, building libraries, linking to digital collections and web pages and sharing information. Are these activities different to our library services in the real world? This paper gives a brief introduction to Second Life, an outline of how one academic librarian has got involved with using it and reviews the issues that have arisen from a library perspective.

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Keywords:	Second Life
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Administrative Services (Sheffield) > Library (Sheffield)
ID Code:	3624
Deposited By:	Ms Lyn Parker
Deposited On:	14 Feb 2008 18:26
Last Modified:	14 Feb 2008 18:27
Status:	Published
Publisher:	ALISS
Refereed:	No

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