gaming

As someone more used to talking about games and gaming to librarians, it will be very interesting later today to talk about libraries to gamers. I am at Gen Con (billed as “The best four days in gaming”) in Indianapolis representing the ALA Gaming and Learning grant. Quicktime movies of my two presentations for this [...]

A few exciting announcements for National Gaming @ Your Library Day.

To celebrate this great first day recognizing gaming in libraries, I am very happy to also announce the launch of the first episode of the Games in Libraries podcast (RSS feed). I am very excited about being part of this podcast along with Scott [...]

A few days ago, I shared a handout from a booktalk I did about books connected to gaming. I got some interesting feedback from the class. The one note that really sparked my interest shows an opportunity for additional discussion in library classes about this topic that seems to be getting so much focus right [...]

I am taking Young Adult Resources and Services this semester and had to do a book talk as one of the class activities. No sense in creating something and not sharing it, however, so here is what I came up with as great books to connect with gaming on a middle school level.
Heir Apparent – [...]

Brian Mayer, writing at Library Gamer, has aligned a set of library-friendly board games to the New York State Standards. If you are thinking about gaming in a school library, this is an incredible resource to show how games can be another type of curriculum resource. Brian also provides links to all of the games. [...]