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ital-5267	Yavarkovsky, Jerome	Editorial Board Thoughts: The Promise of Immersive Libraries	2013-12-22	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1224	52	30	Immersive technologies offer the promise of 3D virtual world libraries where students and their teachers can work together in virtual space with library materials and tools—search engines, online catalogs, media, text, etc. For more than five years, advances in the development of virtual meeting space and workspace have enabled librarians to provide immersive, 3D virtual world services that give a sense of presence that is lacking in conference calls, text chat, and web conferencing.1 As a result, not only is the individual’s physical distance from library materials eliminated, but also the distance is eliminated between individuals who work with each other using library materials.	cache/ital-5267.pdf	txt/ital-5267.txt