LOCATION: NASA CoLab
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/NASA%20CoLab/218/188/32
The Neil A. Armstrong Library and Archives at NASA CoLab is the first virtual world library or archive recognized by the Library of Congress of the United States of America. Its assigned ID is 38392 and its MARC Code is CaPsLAN.
The mission of the library & archives at NASA CoLab is to house and make available records and other documentation relating to NASA CoLab in SL, and library & archival materials relating to NASA generally. NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology owns and operates NASA CoLab island in Second Life.
The NASA CoLab Archival Research Center is located on the third floor. A reading room and meeting space to review archival materials, books, and audio books or hold conferences is available there with an excellent view of the CoLab and ISM sims.
Major collections include the history of women, African-Americans, and the working class in aeronautical and astronautical history, as well as the histories of Apollo 11 and Space Medicine. Displays include digitized, born digital, and born virtual materials. Among these are the CoLab mission statement, meeting minutes, archival photographs and archival documents. Three dimensional objects such as books, and replicas of period planes, space suits, and flight suits add to a museum-like feel to the collection and encourage visitor interaction.
The project includes over 200 archival items. They are from actual archival repositories such as NASA, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Touching a sign dispenses a note card with descriptions of each item, such as where the original images are located and the unique identifiers needed to find them. Some items were donated or created specifically for this project, such as pilot Patty Wagstaff’s photograph, Nobel Prize winner James D. Watson’s photograph, and original oral history interviews with a Tuskegee Airman.
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