"Announcing [the] first ALA SLymposium to be held in the virtual world of Second Life on ALA island on Saturday November 8. [...] The keynote speaker for the SLymposium is Tom Peters, CEO of TAP Information Services, and author of the recently released "Libraries and Virtual Worlds," an ALA TechSource publication. Peters is also one of the conveners of the VCL MIG. Other speakers include Sonja Morgan-Plummer, Tina Coleman from ALA, Carrie Pennell from Harvard University, FT Takacs from University of South Carolina, Carol Perryman from University of North Carolina SLIS, Kelly Czarnecki from Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, and Sue Bergren, a graduate student from the University of Illinois."

This is a basic informational site about the most recent of four NLM grant-funded projects centered around consumer health information and Second Life, a virtual world.

Thoughts fit here that leak out seams from other work, including teaching and researh.

Contains chapter: Designing a curriculum in evidence-based practice, by Carol Perryman and Joanne Gard Marshall

Differences Between Library Instruction Conference Attendees and their Institutional Affiliations in the United States and Canada are Discernible

Second Life interview

VCU Technology Days session

This exciting international conference has grown out of an increasing interest in using the best available evidence to improve library and information practice in all types of libraries. The conference on May 6-9 will be followed by two days of continuing education. The program will provide a forum for the presentation of high quality research papers and posters as well as dynamic discussions of the transformative role of evidence-based practice in the profession.

Podcast interview from rabble.ca about the consumer health project at Second Life

Announcement of GMR-NN/NLM grant for consumer health project at Second Life

Abstract for evidence summary published in new journal, Evidence-based Library and Information Practice

Article published in JMLA

UNC press release

New, online journal. I am an invited member of the evidence summaries team.

Meta analysis of massage therapy for which I served as the research librarian.

Grade school pic!

Awards

Awards