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  70. <td><span class="head30"><i><span class="standingHead14">UNCP in Second Life:</span><br><b>Livermore Library</b></i></span>
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  80. <a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/images/UNCPinSL/LivermoreLibraryInSL_FrontYard.jpg" target=_blank><img src="images/UNCPinSL/LivermoreLibraryInSL_FrontYard.jpg" alt="The virtual Livermore Library on the UNCP in SL campus" border=1 width=512 height=384></a><br><span class="caption8">The virtual Livermore Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in Second Life</span>
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  116. The Mary Livermore Library on the virtual world campus of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke offers a broad range of user services.
  117. <br><br>
  118. Residents of the virtual world have direct access from inside Second Life to real-world library tutorials, electronic resources, document delivery, course reserves, the BraveCat catalog, and guides to the Pembroke campus library. There also are video tours of the real-world library.
  119. <br><br>
  120. Individual users view their library records from the Second Life library with the same security and privacy they experience from the service on the Livermore Library website.
  121. <br><br>
  122. A librarian holds office hours twice a week at the library in Second Life and also can be reached at any time by a virtual-world-to-real-world email link. Office hours for the virtual library in Second Life are 3-5 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  123. <br><br>
  124. A book club offers programs for students, faculty and other interested Second Life residents. Special exhibitions from the Mary Livermore Library archives in RL are being developed for the virtual library.
  125. <br><br>
  126. <b>Literary origin</b>. The virtual world's literary origin makes the library connection a natural fit. Second Life is a three-dimensional, virtual-reality, Internet world inspired mainly by the cyberpunk literary movement, notably Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel <i>Snow Crash</i>.
  127. <br><br>
  128. Stephenson invented the words <i>metaverse</i> and <i>avatar</i> as he described a fictional three-dimensional virtual world created inside inter-networked computers where humans, represented on-screen by graphical images, interact with each other in a non-physically-existing space that is a metaphor of the real world. The term metaverse melds the words "meta" and "universe."
  129. <br><br>
  130. <b>Linden Lab</b>. Second Life was developed at the Linden Research Inc. lab in San Francisco. It was first opened to the public on the Internet in 2003 as a computer-simulated environment which users inhabit. They interact with the environment via their on-screen representatives, the avatars.
  131. <br><br>
  132. Linden Lab's goal is to create a world like the metaverse described by Stephenson -- a general-purpose user-defined virtual place in which people interact, learn, teach, research, explore, serve, build, work, shop, play, conduct business, and communicate in a variety of ways about myriad things. Nearly 1,000 colleges and universities have facilities in the virtual world today.
  133. <br><br>
  134. Today, Second Life has some 20 million residents who are about 40 percent from the U.S. and 60 percent from elsewhere around the globe.
  135. <br><br>
  136. Access is free and open to anyone anywhere using a free downloadable Second Life Viewer, which enables residents to interact with each other, providing an extraordinarily advanced level of social networking.
  137. <br><br>
  138. The Second Life simulation has real world rules such as physics, gravity, topography, locomotion, real-time actions, and lots of communication.
  139. <br><br>
  140. <span class="smallGrayType">
  141. Information on how to get started in Second Life is <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5b66rf" target=_blank><span class="smallGrayType">here</span></a>.
  142. <br>
  143. The Mary Livermore Library's web site is <a href="http://www.uncp.edu/library/" target=_blank><span class="smallGrayType">here</span></a>.
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  146. The Library building is outfitted with:
  147. <ul>
  148. <li>circulation desk
  149. <li>classroom and instructional displays
  150. <li>book club meeting room
  151. <li>video and photography room
  152. <li>live-video screens for program streams entering Second Life from real life
  153. <li>shared media, parcel media and prim media
  154. <li>rare books archive room
  155. <li>reference desk and materials
  156. <li>media players
  157. <li>library, conference and work tables with chairs
  158. <li>computers with Internet and email connections
  159. <li>text, voice and video communication via Internet email and Skype telephone
  160. <li>informative documentation
  161. <li>public domain books
  162. </ul>
  163. SLURL is short for Second Life URL, a Web address. SLURL's are direct links from the Web to locations inside Second Life. The SLURL for UNCP's Livermore Library in second Life is <a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dotoorak/225/180/401" target=_blank>http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dotoorak/225/180/401</a>
  164. <br><br>
  165. <span class="smalltype12"><b>Learn more about virtual worlds and Second Life:</b></span>
  166. <br>
  167. <ul>
  168. <li><a HREF="http://www.spacetoday.org/VirtualWorlds/WhatAreVirtualWorlds.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">What is a virtual world? &#187;</span></a>
  169. <br>
  170. <li><a HREF="http://www.spacetoday.org/VirtualWorlds/WhatIsSecondLife.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">What is Second Life? &#187;</span></a>
  171. <br>
  172. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/HowGetStartedSecondLife.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">How to get started in Second Life? &#187;</span></a>
  173. <br>
  174. <li><a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/WhoAreResidentsOfSL.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Who are the residents of Second Life? &#187;</span></a>
  175. <br>
  176. <li><a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/PGvsMatureSL.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Second Life: PG vs. Mature &#187;</span></a>
  177. <br>
  178. <li><a href="http://secondedition.wordpress.com/" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Second Edition Blog &#187;</span></a>
  179. <br>
  180. <li><a href="http://secondlife.com/" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Second Life home page &#187;</span></a>
  181. <br>
  182. <li><a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/SecondLifeGreatPlaces.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Great Places in Second Life &#187;</span></a>
  183. <br>
  184. <li><a HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24362395@N08/collections/" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Stone Semyorka's Second Life photo collections &#187;</span></a>
  185. <br>
  186. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/SL_photo_tour.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">A small photo gallery of Second Life &#187;</span></a>
  187. <br>
  188. <li><a href="http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Second+Life&search_type=search_users" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Second Life on YouTube &#187;</span></a>
  189. <br>
  190. <li><a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/BlogsAboutSecondLife.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Blogs about Second Life &#187;</span></a>
  191. <br><br>
  192. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/SecondLifeEducation.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Using Second Life for Education &#187;</span></a>
  193. <br>
  194. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/WhatsOnCampusInSL.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">About the UNCP Campus in Second Life &#187;</span></a>
  195. <ul>
  196. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/LivermoreLibraryInSL.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Livermore Library &#187;</span></a>
  197. <br>
  198. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/HospitalForNursing.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Hospital for Nursing &#187;</span></a>
  199. <br>
  200. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/UNCPArtGalleryInSL.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">SL Art Gallery &#187;</span></a>
  201. <br>
  202. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/NewMediaJournalismCenter.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">New Media and Journalism Center &#187;</span></a>
  203. <br>
  204. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/SchoolOfEducation.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">School of Education &#187;</span></a>
  205. <br>
  206. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/AstronomyHall.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Astronomy Hall in the Campus Science Annex &#187;</span></a>
  207. <br>
  208. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/SnowportEnvironmentalStudyCenter.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Snowport Environmental Study Center &#187;</span></a>
  209. <br>
  210. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/CampusSecurityOperationsCenter.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Campus Security Operations Center &#187;</span></a>
  211. <br>
  212. <li><a HREF="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/UNCPCommonsConferenceCenter.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">UNCP Commons Conference Center &#187;</span></a>
  213. </ul>
  214. <li><a href="http://education.secondlife.com/" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Education on the Second Life Grid &#187;</span></a>
  215. <br>
  216. <li><a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/CenterForTheStudyOfVirtualWorlds/CenterForTheStudyOfVirtualWorlds.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Center for the Study of Virtual Worlds &#187;</span></a>
  217. <br>
  218. <li><a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/SecondLifeCitations.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Scholarly References about Second Life and Virtual Worlds &#187;</span></a>
  219. <br><br>
  220. <li><a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/HowToBuildInSecondLife.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">How To Build in Second Life &#187;</span></a>
  221. <br>
  222. <li><a href="http://develop.secondlife.com/" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Creating and developing Second Life &#187;</span></a>
  223. <br>
  224. <li><a href="http://work.secondlife.com/en-US/" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">Second Life for Business &#187;</span></a>
  225. <br>
  226. <li><a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/SecondLifeNewsMedia.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">News Media in Second Life &#187;</span></a>
  227. <br>
  228. <li><a href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/NewMediaNews/NewMediaNews.html" target=_blank><span class="smalltype12">News of Second Life and Virtual Worlds &#187;</span></a>
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  236. <td><span class="smallGrayType">The names Second Life and Linden Lab, and the hand logo and logotype, are registered trademarks of Linden Research Inc.</span></td>
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  239. <span class="smallGrayType">&copy; 2010 Anthony Curtis</span>
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