Libraries in the virtual world
could provide librarian help
for virtual classes and virtual campuses:
Suggestions as to how a virtual world library can serve the educational programs in the virtual worlds, along with a demonstration of how to provide live help on a regular schedule
RUC Library Campus
- "The best teachers tell you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."
- A library is not a building, it is a collection of informative resources.
- The most important resource is a librarian.
- Great resources are only useful if you can find them.
- A librarian can find the resources the student needs.
The trident model for librarian help
- Live online help at set times.
- Responses to written queries.
- Live help available by appointment.
Clarification
- Virtual library (the web site)
- Virtual Library (search)
- The term "Virtual Library' is often applied to a library on the web.
- Here I mean resources available to students in virtual worlds.
Live online help--that's the improbable one!
- Live online help takes people. People cost money!
- Usually we do, but working on the web changes things.
- I have provided live help online for well over a year--in web-worlds.
- The reason I do that without pay is that I would be online at that time anyway.
- And a web-world is only another browser tab.
- So I invite people to visit me on the web as shown below.
Visit me on the web
- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 pm 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.
- Both of these sites have library places in development.
Library help: Weekdays: 12:-12:30 pm Central time (US)
- Why not inworld? Because there is no single inworld.
- A web-world is open to anyone.
- Only a half-hour a day? This is a demonstration and test of concept.
- If usage grows, I hope we can find others to expand the hours.
- I am not really qualified as a librarian.
- But I can provide help with using OpenSim regions and with web search.
Responses to written queries
- We have experienced librarians who will probably answer written queries.
- We need to work out an efficient way to accept queries and respond.
- That probably needs to be something like a web-based forum.
- Web-based would be open to anyone, not just to a particular grid.
- A public forum would carry public answers, available in search.
- A collaborative blog might be the best choice.
- Users could post queries as comments on blog articles.
- Librarians would have all have posting authority on the blog.
- Any librarian could pick up a query and post a blog article in response.
- For the present, as a test, you can post a query on any article on this blog.
- I should get a notice of it. I will either respond or start an article.
- This arrangement will continue until we have one that works for multiple librarians.
Live help available by appointment
- If you need live help at some time that fits your schedule ask for it.
- Use the query method described above.
Background
- Virtual library (the web site)
- Virtual Library (search)
- The term "Virtual Library' is often applied to a library on the web.
- Here I mean resources available to students in virtual worlds.
Searches about online libraries
Related articles
- The Virtual Librarian: Using Desktop Videoconferencing to Provide Interactive Reference Assistance (ACRL)
- Reinventing school for the Tech Generations. Virtual libraries on the web
- We can bring schools into OpenSim. Not just people. Whole campuses full of people.
- The Online Campus needs a library, as did those old campuses with the expensive buildings
- Reinventing school for the Tech Generations. Virtual libraries on the web.
- Educational communities of the virtual worlds, a database by the Community Virtual Library
- A community as a library resource? The secret source of the web
- Libraries and museums will combine in virtual worlds
- Virtual Worlds: Professional Education and Library Resources. Summary
- Educational resources on the Hypergrid: Educator places, educational places, education support
- Teachers don't need to learn how to build in virtual worlds to teach there
- The online campus: Your campus on the internet. Meet fellow students, work with them
Virtual world library resources
- Teacher's web assistant brings museums, aquariums, web cams virtual worlds, libraries, games, and challenges
- Librarians Share Virtual Communities as Resources--Valerie Hill
- Virtual Worlds: Professional Education and Library Resources. Summary 2016
- Professional Library/Education Groups in Virtual Worlds. By Beth Ghostraven
- Libraries and museums will combine in virtual worlds
Libraries online and in virtual worlds
- Self-managed learning and the role of the online library.
- A school for self-study in virtual worlds. We call that a library
- Professional Library/Education Groups in Virtual Worlds. By Beth Ghostraven
- Librarians Share Virtual Communities as Resources--Valerie Hill
- A community as a library resource? The secret source of the web
- Virtual Worlds: Professional Education and Library Resources. Summary
- International immersive learning project by the Community Virtual Library: Medieval Quest
What does a virtual world offer that a web page does not?
People
- A million people may be looking at that web page.
- But you are all alone.
- In a virtual world, you see avatars representing people.
- You can talk to the people. You can ask for help.
- You can look for people who share your interests.
- You can look for people who might want to collaborate with you.
- You can start collaborating with people.
- You can start learning with other people learning the same thing.
- Or perhaps with docents, tutors, or instructors.
- Sure they are avatars, but they are connected to real people.
- And you talk to real people.
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