The Central Florida Memory SL Exhibit is Now OPEN!

Central Florida Memory Comes to Second Life
The Orange County Library System (OCLS) is bringing the Central Florida Memory project (http://www.cfmemory.org/) to the virtual world of Second Life. Central Florida Memory is an ongoing collaborative digitization project whose partners include the Orange County Library System, the University of Central Florida Libraries, the Orange County Regional History Center, Rollins College, and the Museum of Seminole County History. Staff members from OCLS have recreated a turn of the century Florida homestead, complete with cracker house, barn, school house, and more! Visitors to the virtual exhibit will be treated to an interactive and immersive experience that will allow them to “touch” virtual objects for more information about Central Florida Memory. Virtual “computers” will provide links to more information, as well as presentations on building a virtual exhibit, how to start a digitization project, the types of documents included in Central Florida Memory, and more.

A free Second Life standard account is required in order to view and participate in the exhibit (http://secondlife.com/). Once the account is obtained, the location of the exhibit can be found starting July 7th, 2008 at the following SLurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%204/188/56/24/ . Please note access to Second Life is not available on work computers.

“In World” questions can be sent to Laurel Zenovka or Penny Theas. The exhibit is available on an ongoing basis.

Here are a few pictures from the exhibit: