Community Virtual Library

An interview with early adopter librarians who began the virtual world library in 2006- Lori Bell and Rhonda Trueman.

Librarians record a bilingual Christmas poem at the CVL podcast station in Second Life.  Read by Valibrarian Gregg and Pi Illios

Recorded at The Dickens Project in Second Life on Dec 9, 2020.  Holiday Romance in Four Parts (Parts 3 &4) By Charles Dickens: A VCARA Live Storytelling Event

Recorded at The Dickens Project in Second Life on Dec 8, 2020.  Holiday Romance in Four Parts (Parts 1 & 2) By Charles Dickens: A VCARA Live Storytelling Event

CVL and Caledon Literary Study (led by Valibrarian and Wordsmith) meets monthly  in Second Life to read aloud and discuss literature- old and new. Thanks to Bill Harp for recording and for Widget and Ludo for reading aloud.

Soup Jonson shares a session on Banned Books for the CVL Podcast Station a collaboration between the Caledon Community and the Community Virtual Library.

Sensitive topics such as suicide are examples of censorship.  Shyla the Super Gecko illustrates an example.

Pi shares her thoughts on health information and censorship for Banned Books Week 2020.

Inbox Zero is a philosophy that helps us think about what to do with the never-ending stream coming at us. One tip is OHIO (Only Handle It Once) https://www.howtogeek.com/411312/forget-inbox-zero-use-ohio-to-triage-your-emails-instead/

Pi Illios built our podcasting studio in Second Life and collaborates to learn OBS and other podcasting tools.

Come to our podcast station in Second Life on Sat Sept 26th at noon Pacific Time to discuss censorship. Location http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tkachiev/235/202/25

Sitting around our CVL Podcast Studio, colleagues test recording in OBS and then creating an mp3 using Shotcut (free editing software).

a Biblioteca Virtual de la Comunidad proporciona recursos y servicios de biblioteca gratuitos a usuarios actuales y potenciales del mundo virtual en tres dimensiones.

A preview of the book Metamodernism and Changing Literacy: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Valerie Hill

The Community Virtual Library has a main branch in the virtual world of Second Life and has expanded to numerous other virtual world (VR) platforms.