Libraries in Virtual Worlds

Wondering how to get started with a building in Seond Life? Attend the workshop on Cybrary City I, June 3, 2008 at
8:00 a.m. SLT, So You Want a Library or Organization in Second Life? A Practical Guide. Speakers include
Sonja Morgwain and Lorelei Junot

Library Art Gallery Grande Re-Opening!!
Friday, 6 June 2008, 6P – 7.30P SLT
Location: Library Art Gallery @ Info Island
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/48/79/33/

Art departments from the University of Kentucky and East Tennessee State University will be exhibiting during the June and July 2008 show. We are delighted to have the very talented Gabrielle Riel DJ and owner of Radio Riel mix up great set of tunes. We’ll be dancing, appreciating the art and our artists, and having a grand time! Please come and bring a friend — we’ll be dancing, too! For more information, contact Teofila Matova.

Discussion at the China Cafe!
Join us at the China Cafe on Thursday, June 5 at 5am SL and 5pm SL for informative discussions about the
Chinese holiday “Dragon Boat Festival” or “Duanwu”. These presentations will be provided by our instructor
ling Markstein speaking to us from China.
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/27/188/43.
For more information, contact Elaine Tulip

Science Fiction/Fantasy Portal Film DIscussion of Blade Runner
The Sci-Fi & Fantasy Portal
presents it’s June Film Discussion

Film: BLADE RUNNER
When: June 7th. at 1 pm
Where: Info Island 1 (210–94–33)
at the round discussion circle under the Portal

We welcome you to share your ideas, insights, and information about this film. For mroe information contact
Frana Russell.

Caledon and Steelhead Library Events June 3-13

Story Session at the Falling Anvil: Jack Tars & Commodores
Mon, June 9, 5 – 8p:
The Falling Anvil Public House, Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Tamrannoch/233/113/23/

“Here are tinkers, tailors & shoemakers lie snoring fast asleep
While we poor souls on the ocean wide are plowing through the deep
Our officers commanded us, and it’s them we must obey
Expecting every moment for to get cast away”

Join the old salts, coasters, stowaways, privateers & other bold seafaring folk of the Falling Anvil for stories & songs of life at sea. Anyone with a tale to tell of high adventure on the high seas, mermaids, shipwrecks, bold raids, buffeting storms and miscellaneous maritime misadventures is welcome to come tell a tale, and all lovers of story are welcome to join us simply to listen. The evening is sponsored by the Caledon Library and the Clan of Seafarers & Storytellers, and hosted by Aldo Stern.

Steelhead Library Poetry writing workshop with Dov Whiteberry
Wed June 11, 7pm SLT
Steelhead Public Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/118/186/24
Dov Whiteberry (known in RL as Vermont poet and teacher David
Weinstock) will help you write your first poem or improve the ones
you’ve already written. No previous experience is required.

Steelhead Library Book Discussion:
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
Thurs, June 12
7pm SLT
Steelhead Public Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/118/186/24

Come on out and enjoy a fascinating book discussion with our host
moderator Remington Pinion as we talk about this classic book first
published in 1902 which helped define the American cowboy and the
Western book genre.
Available for free online reading from Project Gutenberg at
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=422210&pageno=6
And Biblomania at http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/58/105/frameset.html
**From Amazon.com**
Owen Wister’s powerful story of the silent stranger who rides into the
uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil embodies one of the
most enduring themes in American mythology.
Set in the vast Wyoming territory, The Virginian (1902) captures both
the grandeur and the loneliness of the frontier experience,
brilliantly evoking the tension between the romantic freedom of the
great, untamed landscape and mankind’s deep-seated desire for
community and social order. Wister brings to life the honesty and
rough justice that ruled the range and the civilizing influence of
determined women in frontier settlements that imposed a sense of
society on an unruly population.Eating lucnh, regaining my equanimity
For Wister, the West tested a man’s true worth. His hero-influenced by
those of Sir Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper-is a man who lives
by the classic code of chivalry, ruled by quiet courage and a deeply
felt sense of honor.

For more information, contact JJ Drinkwater.

West Ireland Library and Cultural Center
There are always fun events in the West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center!

June 2nd - Geneaology Workshop with Jaylynn Sinatra @ 7pm SLT
June 3rd - Storytelling with AineMari Flanagan (also open mic for stories) @ 6pm SLT
June 4th - Storytelling with Rei Hax (Science Fiction) @ 7pm SLT
June 5th - Storytelling with Shandon Loring (Celtic Myths & Legends) @ 7pm SLT

Please join us for these great events. IM Derry McMahon for more information.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/West%20of%20Ireland/44/171/26

STEPPING INTO HISTORY CONFERENCE ON JUNE 24

What if instead of talking about history, we could experience it? What if, instead of looking at photos or drawings of historical sites, we could walk into and through them? What if, instead of reading the words of a Lincoln or a Ghandi, we could hear them speak?The technology of virtual worlds is opening up a new universe of possibilities in promoting and teaching a love of history. The “Stepping into History” conference is your chance to learn about, and experience for yourself, the power of virtual worlds at the service of history. This exciting day scheduled for June 10 has filled up, but another day is planned for June 24. For more information, see the website at
http://www.steppinginthistory.org or contact Conference Coordinator John Howard at jhoward@alliancelibrarysystem.com.
This conference is sponsored by Alliance Library System and Learning Times.