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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. " Dr. Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself. The Rise of Virtual Libraries. Virtual libraries aren't a new phenomenon. " Dr.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy."