Kitty Pope, Executive Director of the Alliance Library System and the staff of volunteers from around the world who staff the library were just notified they were the winners of the American Library Association/Information Today Library of the Future Award. This award is granted to a library for innovation in library services. The award will be presented at the annual American Library Association in June.

Catching up on unread feeds congratulations to Kitty and all her dedicated global team on winning this prestigious award. Paul McCloskey gives more details on the pilot Bain & Co. recently ran incorporating SL within their global business school recruitment process. Yesterdays sale of Amsterdam sim on eBay for its asking price of $50k will certainly raise some eyebrows. Coldwell Banker’s arrival in SL would appear to be well timed.

IBM’er Dr. Tony O’Driscoll’s post Virtual Worlds going mainstream and its accompanying video titled Virtual Social Worlds and the Future of Learning have triggered some interesting conversations. It was very timely following on from Lord Puttman’s remarks yesterday. Tony’s 7 Sensibilities that differentiate Virtual Social Worlds from other interactive media is recommended viewing and food for thought.

Our resident Virtual World guru who has been looking at this space since the early 90’s summed it up with one of his mantra’s.

While the 20th century was all about role play in the workplace, the 21st century will be all about plays role in the workspace.

The days of organizations having the luxury of deciding whether to take the Red Pill and reinvent themselves or take the Blue Pill and continue on as normal are numbered. Transition from The Second Wave to the Third Wave of the Web is happening faster than most people realize. For some The Living Web is already here. Interesting times indeed.