http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/american-library-association-in-second-life/ The official blog of the PacRimX Island Project in Teen Second Life Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:48:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/american-library-association-in-second-life/#comment-3926 Second Life News for September 27, 2007 « The Grid Live Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:33:28 +0000 http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/american-library-association-in-second-life/#comment-3926 [...] American Library Association in Second Life “The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is pleased to announce Banned Books Week activities for librarians and the general public in virtual worlds Second Life, Teen Second Life and on social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. ALA is working with other library partners to provide an interactive experience centered on Banned Books Week, September 29-October 6, 2007, to help librarians and others to feel comfortable in social networking spaces and to reach out to new audiences. [...] [...] American Library Association in Second Life “The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is pleased to announce Banned Books Week activities for librarians and the general public in virtual worlds Second Life, Teen Second Life and on social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. ALA is working with other library partners to provide an interactive experience centered on Banned Books Week, September 29-October 6, 2007, to help librarians and others to feel comfortable in social networking spaces and to reach out to new audiences. [...]

]]> http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/american-library-association-in-second-life/#comment-3925 Prokofy Neva Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:35:19 +0000 http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/american-library-association-in-second-life/#comment-3925 I think it would be great if the ALA gave some thought not only to the issue of "banned books out there" as something they use Second Life as a mere augmentationist device for, but pondered the problem of the Linden Labor corporate blog, with its many banned or deleted users, and the official forums of Second Life, from which many have been banned, some permanently -- and searched within, and asked themselves why they are using a world and software like this merely to publicize what they see as the ills of first life, without seeing how these ills are more magnified and more awful within Second Life -- more awful, because no one acknowledges them or holds campaigns about them by prestigious organizations. I think it would be great if the ALA gave some thought not only to the issue of “banned books out there” as something they use Second Life as a mere augmentationist device for, but pondered the problem of the Linden Labor corporate blog, with its many banned or deleted users, and the official forums of Second Life, from which many have been banned, some permanently — and searched within, and asked themselves why they are using a world and software like this merely to publicize what they see as the ills of first life, without seeing how these ills are more magnified and more awful within Second Life — more awful, because no one acknowledges them or holds campaigns about them by prestigious organizations.

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