ALA Midwinter Meeting, January 25, 2014

Joint Meeting of the

ACRL Virtual Worlds Interest Group (VWIG)

and the

ALA Virtual Communities & Libraries Interest Group

at the ALA annual Midwinter Conference
 Saturday, 25 Jan 2014, 3 pm - 4 pm ET 
Philadelphia, PA.

 

 Valerie Hill (Valibrarian Greg) & other "real life" conference attendees in Philadelphia braved the snow to meet in the Jefferson Boardroom at the Loews Philadephia Hotel.  Val moderated the real life meeting in Philly. 

 Joe served as moderator for the in world meeting from within Second Life.

 

Attendees in Second Life gathered at the Virtual Communities Library meeting space.

Since June 2013, the ACRL-VWIG has put on 6 programs ranging in topics from MOOCs to Conference reports, to a workshop on avatar appearance.  At this business meeting, we reviewed the accomplishments and programs of our group during the last 6 months.

Joe created and is writing a blog for the ACRL Virtual World Interest Group this year to report on the groups' programs and activities.

Esther created a Pinterest Board in order to create a visual record of the groups activities. Members of the group have also been adding photos to the site.

Upcoming programs include a discussion of the revisions to the ACRL Information Literacy standards and a joint session with the ALA Virtual Worlds Committee on embedded librarians.

We also talked about Virtual Community Library plans for 2014, which include an exploration of libraries and librarians in other virtual worlds such as Inworldz and Kitely.

The meeting concluded with question & answer period. The attendees' in Philadelphia were very interested in knowing the kinds of activities librarians were engaged in within Second Life.