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“The Librarians” discussion on ABC Island in Second Life

The entire library community knows about this bit:

The Librarians, is a new six-part comedy series from the ABC, based around the highly-strung head librarian of an outer suburban Melbourne library. This new social satire premieres on Wednesday October 31 at 9.30pm. You can also watch it online at abc.net.au/tv/librarians from 10:00pm.

But did you know that on Thursday night, you can chat about the show with other librarians on ABC Island in Second Life?

In conjunction with the ABC, Emerald Dumont - a librarian avatar from the Australian Libraries Building - will host a discussion of the show in the ABC Auditorium on ABC Island. Do we really look like that? What would you have added? What do you think will happen? Would other professions be having this discussion if the show was called “The Teachers” or “The Doctors”?

Brush off you avatar, or follow this guide to create a new one, and join in.

DATE: Thursday November 1st

TIME: 7:30pm AEDST, 5:30pm (WA Daylight savings) , 1:30am SL time (PDT)

PLACE: ABC Auditorium , ABC Island in SL

(If you are logged into Second Life, click on this SLURL to get there: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ABC%20Island/128/75/24)

Instant message Emerald Dumont if you need a Teleport to the event, or contact her close friend Kathryn Greenhill for further information ( kathryn.greenhill at gmail dot com)

October 26th, 2007 Posted by Kathryn Greenhill | All sectors, Social Networking | one comment

Libs for Africa - wrap up

The Australian Library community raised funds to give some African librarians the opportunity to attend the 73rd IFLA conference in South Africa in August.

Sharon Karasmanis advises that the final report on this fund-raising activity is now available.

$10,900 was raised in total. Visit the website to see photos from the IFLA conference and messages of appreciation from the delegates who were able to attend from the support of Australian Librarians.

Libs for Africa

October 26th, 2007 Posted by Peta Hopkins | All sectors | no comments