Community Virtual Library to take over from AVL in Jan 2010

  

At the Alliance Virtual Library staff meeting last night on Info Island, Lorelei Junot (RL Lori Bell), announced that effective January 2010, the newly formed nonprofit Community Library System  Foundation  will take over administration for Info Island, Info Island Inrternational, Imagination Island  and Cybrary 2 from the Alliance Library System.  The Community Library System will be administered by Abbey Zentih (RL Rhonda Trueman), Rocky Vallejo (RL Bill Sowers), and Hypatia Dejavu (RL Samantha Thompson).

According to Junot (RL Bell), the Alliance Library Sytem' s Innovation Department's role was to "investigate and begin cutting edge projects and to run them for a three year period, then move on to other projects."  The ALS system has also taken a 17% cut in their budget.

 Hypatia Dejavu (RL Samantha Thompson) explained, "Until January 0f 2010 rolls around we will stlil be the Alliance  Virtual Libary and half of our fund raising efforts will go towards playing their bills with the remaining half going to pay forward for the operation and tier of the sims under CVL through the generosity of ALS."

She continued "Abbey will oversee Info Island and Events. Rocky will oversee Imagination Island and Collections, and Hypatia will oversee Info Island International and Reference Services.  This is just broad strokes of course as we'll all be involved in all the islands and all kinds of projects.  Of course these roles are also likely to evolve as we go.  We've also created a shared administrative avatar who will be the owner of record for the sims."  The shared avatar is Library Bluebird, a blue bird avatar.

"The purpose of the project is to serve the community as a public library and as a place where librarians, library staff,  library students and other allied professionals can network, explore, volunteer, and learn skills."

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[Verde Otaared]

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Verde Otaared