Gaming - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

Gaming - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

This came up in a gaming list (which happens to be on the list of sites to watch.) They've started a list of Libraries hosting gaming as well as blogs and websites to check out.

How gaming is all work and no play

"A recent UK survey highlighted that 82% of nine to 19-year-olds have at least one games console and 70% play computer games online"

The article also goes to show some of the benefits of gaming - such as incorporating the idea of dividing time between work and play, that is often not learned until they reach university ages.

Video Game Voters Network?

A collection of gamers have pulled together "launching a new grassroots political network for gamers called the Video Game Voters Network. The ESA says that "the website was created as a means for American adults who play computer and video games to organize and take action on important policy issues affecting the computer and video game industry."

Again - gamers are not just the K-12 age groups, so what we do in libraries could have a much larger impact than we think.

Sandbox Symposium

ACM is holding a video game symposium July 29th and 30th in Boston. Not a lot of information at this time but there is a call for papers with a deadline of May 1, 2006.

Game teaches journalism students skills

Using Neverwinter Nights to teach journalism skills, including going to the library. I just had to link for the quote, "When we initially did the game, it still had lava pits, the editor looked like an ogre — stuff like that. The librarian had breastplates."

Passing the joystick to a new generation

Parents as gamers, playing with their kids. Games aren't solitary expereinces anymore! They are being used as the board & card games of previous years.

Women Gamers duke it out

There are two camps of thought when trying to get more female gamers. The casual (Tetris, Bejewelled)vs. team-based games (Halo, World of Warcraft)