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If you don't know what I mean by "L$" this position isn't for you but if you're very into Second Life, you can be the librarian for Rockcliffe University in-world. Now this is a Library 2.0 position!
Rockcliffe University SecondLife Campus (RUSLC) is associated with the Rockcliffe School of Business due to launch in the fall of 2008. The school's purpose is to provide online education in the fields of Organizational Design and Management. RUSLC is a proof of concept school within Secondlife to test various elements of education design and delivery compared to other online techniques.
On December 5th, 2006, RUSLC opened its doors to SL residents through the offering of programs specifically tailored to the SL environment. These classes are free of charge to all SecondLife residents and are sponsored by the Rockcliffe School of Business and Knomaze Corporation. These courses will be the forerunner to additional courses aimed at a college level of education in the fall of 2008 (including tax receipts, college credit hours, certifications and all that good stuff).
Open Position: Librarian
Rockcliffe is looking for a Librarian to assist us in establishing the underlying library infrastructure services necessary to provide support to our business objects. That is, in order to develop a world class set of business courses, we require someone that understands the ins and outs of how to access peer-reveiwed publications and is interested in experimenting with how those services can be delivered through various communication mechanisms, including the Second Life platform.
The inital starting conditions of this venture however will not be that grandious at the get go. We are building this school up from game play to real-world business only as quickly as venture capital and revenues allow. To start we are looking for someone to help guide us in the possibilities of what library services may offer beyond the obvious sorting and cataloguing of resources, objects, scripts, etc within Second Life.
The position will be mostly volunteer to start. Compensation will consist of a weekly stippend in line with what others currently working on this project are receiving. Depending on the effort required we are looking at a range of between $500 and $1000L/wk.
If interested please forward a brief resume to Phelan Corrimal including some idea of both SL and RL history in Library Services.
Labels: library 2.0, second life
2 Comments:
Wow. That's a little less than $2 to $4 a week! I wonder how many hours a week of work they expect for this position?
That is completely up to the person that eventually came on board to fulfill the position. We actually weren't expecting anything more than what someone was willing to give as this is their personal 'fun' time with some $L on the side. We actually ended up with two people who where interested in the position. One who wanted to experiment with the more progressive aspects of what we where looking for and was doing it on their own time anyways. The other is a lady who we've just turned the whole basic library function over to work as she sees fit. Sort of like people who do stamp collecting for the love of collecting stamps, this person is doing it because she in into the gaming experience and loves to collect things. Plus she gets exposure as a 'knowledge expert' in where to find things inSL. It has actually work out extremely well for us and the students we have coming to the Rockcliffe I SIM.
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