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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Despite Second Life having nearly total control over the Virtual World environment for professional associations, other libraries provide access to alternate environments for learning. Children’s portals are particularly useful to this end, especially given that the primary SL site is designed for ages 18+ (though there is a teen Second Life offered for younger users). [...]
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