Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries : NVB 2007 presentation

My presentation about "Virtuele Werelden, echte bibliotheken"at the NVB annual meeting is online at Slideshare. To give some more info about this exciting subject ;-) here are a few other publications:

Kamel Boulos MN, Hetherington L, Wheeler S. Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3D virtual worlds in medical and health education. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2007;24(4):233–245 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/HIR [indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE](soon published, but if you need a copy let me know!)
Or: Get your Consumer Health Information from an Avatar! Health and Medical Related Activities in a Virtual Environment . http://www.bm.cm-uj.krakow.pl/eahil/proceedings/oral/vanB... This paper can be also regarded as the FULLTEXT paper for my Dutch presentation yesterday. I just did not have the time to translate it into Dutch. Sorry! I will make an official NVB version, but it still will be in english.
Read this great article in today's Washington Post about many of the great things going on in Second Life and a picture of the accessibility center at HealthInfo Island. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007...

Comments

MK said…

Hello, I would love to get my hands on the publication "Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3D virtual worlds in medical and health education". I am doing a a study myself on the therapeutic potential of Second Life.

How would I got about reading it?

Thank you!

Saturday, November 17, 2007

digicmb said…

You could follow the link while you are inside an institution that has a subscription on that journal, or you could write the author for a request, or you can leave you email and we talk more about your research and ours ...
Guus

Sunday, November 18, 2007

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