"Second life" looks rather interesting! It appears it is a bandwith sucker so I don't think I'll install it at home. From what I've seen on you tube it looks like a fun way to interact with people and also play a virtual reality version of paper dolls (choosing outfits for your avatar, how you want it to look etc). Establishing library services, such as reference, in a virtual world is a good idea - if that's where people are it makes sense to be there too. If TAFE establish virtual classrooms it would be great to have a library presence there too, for reference and also for promoting resources and events in real life campus libraries.
PS-I wrote the above in a draft email to post to my blog later. The computer I'm using wouldn't let me get on to the Blogger dashboard - my ISP was sending a stream of automated traffic apparently and so Google said "We're sorry" via their apologetic Forbbiden 403 web page. Claire posted about the same problem on her blog so perhaps it was a network wide issue.
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