What is Second Life, and how does it relate to libraries? What are libraries already doing in this virtual world (and should mine be there, too)? What's involved in getting involved? Come prepared to toss aside preconceived ideas and assumptions while you get answers to these questions and learn about the world's most popular online virtual environment.

1. Laura Solomon / Lebachai Vesta Library Services Manager Ohio Public Library Information Network(OPLIN) [email_address] http://www.librarygeekwoes.com Getting a Second Life: An Introduction to the Metaverse for Libraries PART I

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8. What is Second Life ? A 3D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents

9. Virtual world, real dollars

10. What Second Life isn’t game

11. What can you do in Second Life?

12. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =b72CvvMuD6Q

14. Webkinz it’s not

25. Ann Meyers Medical Center

26. First Unitarian Church of SL

28. Temple Beit Israel

33. American Library Association

36. Ohio University

37. Case Western Reserve Library

38. Appearances can be deceiving

42. http://jvwresearch.org/