Second Life and ALA

An anonymous benefactor has bought the American Library Association half an island on Second Life. Mark Bard had already set up shop on behalf of ALA’s Washington Office in space courtesy of the Alliance Library System. The Washington Office hosted a presentation by David Lankes (more information here).

While in Chicago for meetings, Mark got together with Jenny Levine to work on terra-forming. Jenny invited colleagues to stop by to get an introduction to Second Life and learn about what Mark was doing. With some trepidation, I took a look, along with TechSource’s Teresa Koltzenburg and from Marketing, Tina Coleman and Sam Florio. I can feel the time slip away into the vortex. We asked a lot of questions. (Yeah, one of mine was: How long did it take you to build that?) Jenny urged us to get in there and experiment, see where it takes us. OK, I’ll loosen up and play. But somebody else go first.