A Room of One's Own: The Virtual Study Room as an Information Services Delivery Model

Autor: Natascha Karlova, Peyina Lin, Michael B. Eisenberg, John Marino
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: iConference 2014 Proceedings.
DOI: 10.9776/14115
Popis: Libraries are facing the challenge of innovation to meet user needs. Virtual worlds offer unique opportunities for curated, immersive, integrated, interactive, and flexible spaces. The Virtual Study Room is a unique design concept leveraging these opportunities and supporting information behavior in a virtual world. Participant feedback from a research event in Second Life indicates that the Virtual Study Room is a useful environment for individual and group information problem-solving, and serves as a model for the delivery of online library information services.
Databáze: OpenAIRE