1	Alliance Second Life Library: Where We Are and Where We’re Going Kitty Pope, Executive Director, Alliance Library System and Barbara Galik, Director, Cullom-Davis Library, Bradley University
2	Celebrating Two Years Strong! April 2008 marks two years of library services in the virtual worlds of Second Life and Teen Second Life From one island to an Info Information Archipelago with 40 library islands and partners
3	From one island to 40+ Some of the library islands include Info Island International with an information desk and other areas with information on various cultures to reflect the international flavor of second life Renaissance Island, an immersive learning environment for 16^th century Tudor England Land of Lincoln to celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth
4	Islands continued Eduislands 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and Cybrary City 1 and 2 for libraries and other educational institutions to work together to have their own presence in second life HealthInfo Island with a medical library, a consumer health library, and an accessibility center More
5	Examples of Partner Islands Bradley University San Jose State University Graduate School of Library and Information Science Center for Disease Control Cleveland Public Library Stanford University Libraries Others
6	Highlights of 2007 Presentations at major conferences including ALA, Internet Librarian, Computers in Libraries, and more Awards – ALA/Information Today Library of the Future, Sirsi-Dynix Building Better Communities Award
7	Collaboration is not only key but king Talis – funded Cybrary City to help libraries establish a presence OCLC – provided test of Question Point Sirsi-Dynix – sponsored Info Island for one year and Eye4You Alliance NMC – allowed us to use beautiful conference space
8	Continuing Education ALS and UIUC GSLIS offer a number of courses to introduce librarians and educators to virtual world librarianship Two LTA Students from ICC complete practica in Second Life Library buzz held on a regular basis
9	Programming and Events Lifeblood of the second life library – keep people coming back Second Life Literary Festival Ball at Lincoln era White House Ongoing book discussions Art shows Author talks
10	Reference Info Island recognized as one of central education centers in Second Life because of live staffing at reference desk In 2007, 6769 patrons were served They asked 1921 SL directional questions, 2292 SL reference questions and 186 real life directional questions
11	Collection Development Most collections are made up of urls for websites on a topic Each subject area contains interactive displays as well as a surrounding ambience Special exhibits for special celebrations such as Martin Luther King Day
12	American Library Association in Second Life ALA Arts InfoIsland donated Successful celebration of Banned Books Week Build of ALA Island by SJSU graduate students SLA will be here in 2008
13	Teen Second Life Eye4You Alliance Island thrives under leadership of Kelly Czarnecki Land of Lincoln Teen Grid added to celebrate bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth Successful college fair and many other events held
14	HealthInfo Island Medical library Consumer health library Accessibility center Path of support to work with other health support groups in Second Life Training programs on how to find good medical information on the Internet
15	Others Science Center with over 1000 members Law Library Caledon Science Fiction/Fantasy Portal Mystery Manor
16	2008 Initiatives ALA/FINRA Smart Investing grant to create a Smart Investing Island and promote the library as an unbiased source of investing information Land of Lincoln development and events in Second Life and Teen Second Life In February, held Literary Festival March, Virtual Worlds conference April – Two year celebration May – History conference Talis Cybrary Island – new international island for libarries and information organizations to establish presence in Second Life SLA will create a presence
17	Challenges Need to develop sustainable funding model Need to establish sustainable staffing model Need to network to work with single libraries
18	What we think is the buzzword for 2008 and for libraries in virtual worlds: Immersive education experiences – change the current learning model to one of immersive participation, roleplay, observation through building, reenacting, writing, and participating
19	Thanks to all our wonderful volunteers who give their time and expertise!