Info Island and the surround islands also host nonprofit organizations, a medical library, a science center, and more. A number of universities have claimed spots on Eduisland. Info Island was initiated by the Illinois-based Alliance Library System. You can read the latest news from Info Island on its Web site and in a weekly column in the Metaverse Messenger.

• Info Island Web site
• ICT Library Web site
• Metaverse Messenger
• Location: Info Island (99,123,33)

• College of Scripting, Music and Science: Horsa (45,213,85)
• The Design Center, Location: Idea City (70,193,40)
• The Ivory Tower Library of Prims, Location: Natoma (207, 170, 25)
• Linden Script Tutorial Exhibition, Location: Daydream SE Islands (219,43,23)
• NMC Orientation: NMC Orientation (69,107,32)
• The Particle Laboratory, Location: Teal (200, 60, 21)
• Texture Tutorials, Location: Benten (25, 115, 28)

In addition to those locations in Second Life, there are many resources on the Web you may find useful, such as these:

• Second Life Wiki, a wealth of how-to articles.
• Video Tutorials, gems by prolific Torley and others. Many also on iTunes.
• Getting Started in Second Life, from the New Media Consortium.
• Unofficial Complete Fool’s Guide to Second Life.
• Jokay’s SL Orientation, a comic book-style guide to getting through Second Life’s Orientation Island.
• Second Life Quickstart Guide
• Xiamara Ugajin’s tutorials.
• The “Script Me!” Web site will create custom scripts for a number of common Second Life tasks.