Final thoughts

My presentation to the LCLCPL is next Wednesday at 3:00. It looks like it is just going to be Mary and Helen, so I don't think I'll do a PowerPoint for this presentation. I'm going to email the paper to Mary before the meeting, and I can create a page for her to print out of the important points I'm going to cover in my speech, but since I'm taking them into Second Life, I don't think a PowerPoint is really necessary.

Mary has offered to go into Second Life with me, and I have accepted. This way Helen can see how the avatars interact with each other, the typing motions , etc. So I'll give my speech first (probably no more than 5 minutes), then we'll go into Second Life and show her what it is. I was thinking of letting it load while I give the speech, but I'm actually going to load it when I'm done, to give Helen a better feel of just how long it takes to load, even on my super-speedy computer - the LCLCPL's computers certainly aren't up to SL standards, so if they decide to do it, they're looking at a substantial investment.

As I said last night, I'm sure my recommendation of entering SL slowly won't be what Helen wants to hear, but I think it's the right recommendation to make - there's just too many factors with SL to jump in willy-nilly. If it were my library, this is the track I would take - lower investment for the test run, and if that test run is successful, then we can invest more resources (time, computers, skills, etc) to creating an island.