The IS Cream Van is parked in Holyrood Park (Vue South), Second Life at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vue%20South/112/159/21. Please feel free to visit. If you would prefer a tour then contact Frank Lassard in world. Photos of the IS Cream Van are available: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flittleton/sets/72157622651729745/

We would kindly ask you to take time to complete our project survey. The aim of this survey is to gather views on whether there a role for Information Services in virtual worlds, and if so, what should it look like. The survey results will be incorporated in reports on the IS Cream Van. This survey is completely anonymous. Any identifiable information will be removed prior to reporting. This survey will take @15 minutes to complete.

The survey is available at:
https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/is-cream-van/

If you would like to know more about this or any other Virtual University of Edinburgh project then please contact fiona.littleton@ed.ac.uk or visit http://www.vue.ed.ac.uk.

(Please feel free to pass on to colleagues you think might be interested).

Thank you,
Fiona

Fiona Littleton
Educational Development Adviser for Virtual Worlds
University of Edinburgh

Where: Infolit iSchool, Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/127/244/21/

Pancha Enzyme leads a discussion about providing information services for learners in Second Life. Pancha is a librarian at Edinburgh University and also part of a Second Life teaching team. She and her colleagues have developed the “IS cream van” as one approach to meeting information needs and questions. She will talk about this (and probably let you see the van!) and we will also be interested in hearing others’ ideas.

(Though if you want to see it beforehand, here’s a screenshot of it, in the Virtual World use in UK Education Flickr picture pool).