Feed-only comment: “I still think it is a huge waste of resources for a library to invest any time or money in a Second Life presence.” While you are, of course, entitled to your opinion, I find it singularly over-stated. “Huge” and “any” are entirely out of proportion to the actual cost and potential benefits of having, for example, staff trained, willing and able to attend remote meetings and conferences in/via SL. Costs will come down as open source competition matures and I think it reasonable to assume that virtual research environments will also embrace this space in due course. Just my opinion, of course.
David Rothman has an informative post about adding medical terms to your spell checker in Word. Rather than adding medical terms individually, you can populate your spell checker with thousands of medical terms from one file, ... […]
Following my posting on best practices, David Rothman, Community's blogging librarian, chided me this week with a copy of "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of ... […]
September 5th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Feed-only comment: “I still think it is a huge waste of resources for a library to invest any time or money in a Second Life presence.” While you are, of course, entitled to your opinion, I find it singularly over-stated. “Huge” and “any” are entirely out of proportion to the actual cost and potential benefits of having, for example, staff trained, willing and able to attend remote meetings and conferences in/via SL. Costs will come down as open source competition matures and I think it reasonable to assume that virtual research environments will also embrace this space in due course. Just my opinion, of course.
September 5th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I’ll write a post about Second Life soon- thanks for the comment!