Librarians Utilizing Virtual Reality

Librarians Utilizing Virtual Reality

Dr. Valerie HillInformation Literacy Consultant

Suzette LewisUW PhD Candidate

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VR is here! Can it be educational?

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Minecraft ClubStudents are ready to build in 3D.

5th Graders built a library game to teach digital citizenship in Minecraft.

Prosumers: both consuming and producing media

Evolving Information Literacy

Searching strategies Content formats

History of Virtual RealityNot so new! VR has been around since the 1950s.

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Sci-Fi becomes Real World

Virtual World Libraries

Second Life is only ONE of many virtual worlds.

Big 6 in 3D on UW Island

Librarians can try VRI did!

Virtual Resources & Environments

Gannt and Woodland examined over 75 virtual libraries, in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). The researchers believe, “Building on the experiments and successes we have documented in SL, we are confident that libraries and information space will be created in new virtual environments” (Gannt and Woodland, 2012, pp. 138).

ReferencesGantt, J.T., and Woodland, J.R. (2013). Libraries in Second Life: Linking Collections, Clients,

and Communities in a Virtual World. Journal of Web Librarianship, 7(2), 123-141.Google Education. (2015) Expeditions Pioneer Program. Retrieved from

https://www.google.com/edu/expeditions/Hill, V. (2015). Digital Citizenship Through Game Design in Minecraft. New Library World,

116 (7/8), 369 -382.Lewis, R. (2015). Virtual Reality: Soon to Become Mainstream in Libraries? (cover

story) Information Today. 32(4), 1-29. Mastel, K. and Huston, D. (2009), “Using video games to teach game design: a gaming

collection for libraries”, Computers in Libraries, Vol. 29 No. 3, pp. 41-44.Merchant, Z., Goetz, E.T., Keeney-Kennicutt, W., Cifuentes, L., Kwok, O., and Davis, T.J.

(2013). Exploring 3-D Virtual Reality Technology for Spatial Ability and Chemistry Achievement. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 29(6). 579-590.

Moorefield-Lang, H. (2015). Libraries and the Rift. Knowledge Quest. 43(5). 76-77.

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