JJ Drinkwater is the director of the Caledon Library system, and founder of the Alexandrian Free Library, a consortium of libraries serving themed communities such as Caledon, Steelhead, and and Winterfell in the virtual world of Second Life..

JJ's "physical avatar", JJ Jacobson (MSI 2005, University of Michigan School of Information) is a librarian with longstanding interests in narrative, intentional community, and the history of everyday life. Professional interests include digitization, metadata, teaching virtual world librarianship, and the uses of Food Studies materials to serve scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities.

Location

US

Disciplines

• Library and Museum Studies

Affiliation

The Library Militant

Website

http://www.thelibrarymilitant.net/blog/