My colleague partner in crime friend and fellow blogger Kathryn Greenhill has just launched a new blog: Virtual librariesinteract.info (vlint for short). If you’ve been reading our lint blog, you will have noticed that a few of us have been exploring Second Life (see, for example: Christmas party!, and the news about our building in Second Life). Kathryn decided (and rightly so, I think) that it would be a good idea to hive off the majority of SL posts to a separate blog, and so, in her ‘spare’ time has put installed and put together this blog for discussion and sharing information on Australian library folks’* adventures in SL.
As Kathryn points out on her blog, snail (fellow linter) made the brilliant suggestion that we could broaden it so that we’re not only blogging about Second Life: we can use vlint to blog about “any other world, including World of Warcraft, gaming, speculative fiction or virtual library branches. This is the place for the more specific and technical posts.”
Anyone want to blog about WoW, or EQ, and the impact of the gaming experience on library users’ expectations of library interfaces, perhaps? How about the different experiences of PvE and PvP players and their expectations when interacting with each other in-game and in Real Life… and in libraries? (Okay, I’m stretching it a bit here. But next time I log on I might have to analyse my reactions to finding information about a difficult quest, and observe how players ask for help or information…)
*library folks because I’m trying to be inclusive of all – librarians, library technicians, IT people – anyone who works in a library, really.
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I can’t write about WoW, but I sure as heck would like to read about how it relates to libraries. We have a percentage of students who are extremely competent in that arena who could possibly transfer the skills into information finding if we bridged it properly.
SL looks like it’s inferior to WoW in lots of ways (although admittedly they are for different purposes). What would someone who’d spent a lot of time in Wow expect to see in our SL library?Or our real life library?
Someone used to WoW would expect someone to jump out from behind a library book stack and clobber them over the head … unless your on a RP or PvE server 😛