2019 #VWEDU A digital campus needs a digital library. What would be in a digital library?

A digital campus needs a digital library.  
What would be in a digital library?

Preliminary ideas for a digital  library on a digital campus, with an invitation to add your own ideas.  

 RUC library in Second Life

• I mean digital to include the customary flat web pages.
• There are already lots of courses, certifications, and degrees offered online.
• But I am not sure we think of these web sites as digital campuses.
• We are more likely to think of a place in a virtual world as a digital campus.
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary

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RUC library interior

Go there

• In Second Life put the SLurl below in the address (top) bar of the viewer, press Enter
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20I/79/53/23

What do we need in a digital library?

What services would we carry over from the past?

• Curation to ensure that authoritative resources merited that credibility. 
• A card catalog and other indexes to find the information sources we needed.
• Subscriptions to give us access to scholarly journals.
• Live help from librarians for finding sources we could not find with standard help.
• Conference rooms for student collaboration  meetings.

What new services would we expect from an online library?

• Guidance from a power searcher:
• Take Google’s Free Course and Challenges to Become a Power Searcher
• Guidance in online note taking.
• The 10 Best Note Taking Apps in 2018
• Links to databases of commonly needed resources:
• Textures, mesh objects (files for import), sounds, animations, etc.

What do we do without in a digital library?

• A physical building, utilities, maintenance, security.
• Physical collections.   
• Those costs can go into education and services.

Does each school need its own library?

• Of course not.  A web-based library can be everywhere at once.
• A virtual world campus would probably have its own virtual library.
• Because that would make it easier for students to find the library.
• But the library would draw on the same resources as other school libraries.
• (A generally available digital school library might get grant funding.)

RUC library interior

Displays

Help us design a digital library

• What other needs do you see for an online digital library?
• Please respond in a notecard to 
• Selby Evans (in Kitely) or
• Thinkerer Melville (in Second Life)  
• Or add a comment to this blog article.  
• Or drop by and talk with me about it (See my web office hours below).
• (You do not have to identify yourself or your project.)

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
• Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
• I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  

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