Despite its adult focus on its main site, however, Second Life also offers an outlet for teens in its companion site, Teen Second Life. Information resources are available here too, notably in the form of Eye4You Alliance Island Teen Library Services. While many libraries are involved in the ongoing project to create a dynamic public [...]
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There are also many special libraries that have been employing virtual world resources in assisting their patrons. Returning (inevitably) to Second Life, we can see how the tool has been employed in the medical field – Healthinfoisland, purchased space in the SL world, is a collaborative effort of several medical libraries in constructing a more [...]
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The physical libraries that have a presence in Second Life are located in Cybrary City I and Cybrary City II, designed so that they can be in close proximity to one another and away from the many businesses and residential areas that SL hosts – this alone highlights one of the key positive features of [...]
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