Collaborators


AIDS.GOV: http://aids.gov/
Information from the federal government about HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment, research, and using new media in response to HIV/AIDS.

Blog by AIDS.GOV: http://blog.aids.gov/

A large number of federal agencies and programs are engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment, and research efforts in the United States. AIDS.gov serves as a gateway for information about those Federal domestic efforts.


Since the launch of AIDS.gov on December 1, 2006 (World AIDS Day), there has been a growing interest in finding ways to use new media to disseminate information about HIV/AIDS and improve prevention, testing, treatment, and research outcomes. AIDS.gov created this blog to address that interest.

Alliance Library System: http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/
The Alliance Library System is one of nine multitype library systems, cooperating to provide vital library services to the citizens of Illinois. In a nutshell, we do the following:

For Libraries

  • We provide information, resources, delivery services and educational opportunities to all types of libraries in central Illinois. We deliver books, support the Talking Book program, organize the automated library catalogue and teach librarians how to do their job better.
  • We are a learning organization that supports libraries.

For Legislators

  • We are for libraries; big, small, rural or urban school, academies, public or special we are a support system for them all.
  • We provide services for libraries that create economies of scale and make the best use of the taxpayers hard earned dollars.
  • We are the libraries advocate and support system.

For Communities

  • We teach librarians how to do their job better.
  • We promote cooperation and help libraries access the materials you want.
  • ALS is Amazon, FedEx, a community college, My-space and a potluck dinner all in one.

Alliance Virtual Library: http://infoisland.org/

Alliance Virtual Library and OPAL are teaming up to extend the programs currently offered online to librarians and library users to the Second Life virtual environment. Many libraries of all kinds offer events, lectures, exhibit, collections and training in Second Life.

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of people from around the globe. There are shopping malls, events, homes, lands of different types, and best of all, participants can contribute content, buildings, and other digital creations.


Health Info Island Blog: http://healthinfoisland.blogspot.com/
Funded by the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network/National Library of Medicine (GMR NN/NLM) through a grant written by Lori Bell, of the Alliance Library System, Illinois, librarians at Healthinfo Island in Second Life explore the provision of consumer health information services in a virtual environment. The island is home to a consumer health library and a medical library, as well as virtual outposts or displays run by the National Library of Medicine's Special Information Services, contractors for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and our newest building, the Accessibility Center. This center houses another GMR NN/NLM funded projectwith the aim of encouraging awareness of vision, mobility, learning, and other disabilities.

National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda,

Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.