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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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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

Museum 2.0

on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the constant question, "If your first life is good, why do you need a Second Life?"

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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."