Here’s a 45 minutes audio/slide clip about:

• What is Second Life?
• What can you do there?
• What are libraries doing there.
• Some interesting library sites
• Ten ways libraries can join in
• Live tour of the Australian Libraries Building

http://www.slideshare.net/sirexkat/slvs-lgreenhil-slideshare

McMaster Uni Library in Canda has just revamped their mission statement (below), and it’s a thing of beauty.

Even more interesting are the notes of staff feedback(Strategic Planning) from the planning meeting.  They were asked beforehand to read the David Lewis paper, A Model for Academic Libraries 2005 to 2025
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new vision/mission statements

The University Library has been engaged in a strategic planning process to update our vision/mission and strategic directions. We have completed the first phase of that process and have updated our vision and mission statements. The next phase of the process will include an update to our strategic directions, goals/objectives, and metrics.

Vision
McMaster University Library will be recognized as Canada’s most innovative, user-centred, academic library.

Mission

The University Library advances teaching, learning and research at McMaster by:
· teaching students to be successful, ethical information seekers
· facilitating access to information resources
· providing welcoming spaces for intellectual discovery
· promoting the innovative adoption of emerging learning technologies

We value:
· excellent customer service,
· collaboration, innovation, creativity and risk taking,
· inclusiveness and respect for the individual
· accountability for our actions and decisions

Here’s Curtin’s glossary of library language. I like it. http://library.curtin.edu.au/reference/library_language.html