One Step at a Time Towards Tomorrow: Lessons Learned from Pursuing Second Life

From TechSource Gaming Symposium

Presenter: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (Head of the Undergraduate Library; Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction of the University Library; Associate Professor for Library Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Description: In pursuing innovation, librarians can encounter a variety of challenges, limitations, resource deficits, and policy and procedures obstacles. Faced with such factors, an individual must choose: stop trying or get creative. This session will discuss the UIUC Library's SecondLife initiative as a case study of persistence and creativity in continued pursuit of innovation when success was not immediate but progress is possible and indeed is occurring (even if more slowly than desired). Participants will be asked to contribute to a discussion exploring strategies for "next steps" with any innovation that is "stuck" or not yet even started. Leave the session with inspiration and enthusiasm - as well as practical strategies - for making things happen.

Intended Audiences:

• Pretty much any librarian

at:

• Any type of library
  

Listen to an MP3 audio file of this session (38MB, 41:05)

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