Games in Libraries Podcast

During this episode of the Games in Libraries podcast, we talk about what happened during National Gaming Day @ Your Library, 2009.

Download the December 2009 Games in Libraries episode over at The Internet Archive.

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Show Notes:

National Gaming Day @ Your Library – Nov. 14, 2009
– Main Web site: http://ngd.ala.org
– Data from the event: http://ngd.ala.org/2009/11/24/double-the-fun-final-ngd2009-numbers/
– ALA Gaming Toolkit
– YouTube Course on Gaming in Libraries

Donald Dennis and Jamie Jayroe of the Georgetown County Library System SC BYTES Project talks about what their library did for National Gaming Day @ Your Library, and discusses lessons learned about what got people excited.

JJ Lanza, on his RPG101 segment, talks about how he worked with the Wood County Public Library in Bowling Green, Ohio to run a roleplaying game. He ran the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game starter set, and more information about that can be found at http://tinyurl.com/dndstarterset/

Beth Gallaway talks about how the Mashpee, Massachusetts Public Library used an interesting survey idea on National Gaming Day to get ideas from library patrons about board and video games for collection development.

Greg Carlson and others from the Jacaranda Library, Sarasota County Libraries in Sarasota, Florida present some of the innovative things they are doing to engage the community with chess. You can join in the game at http://sclibs.net/chess.aspx

Eli Neiburger presents the results from the video game tournaments for National Gaming Day 2009.

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With National Gaming Day @ Your Library coming right up (Nov. 14), we wanted to put up an episode with advice for libraries thinking about joining in! Enjoy!

Download the October 2009 Games in Libraries episode over at The Internet Archive.

Or listen here:

Show Notes:

National Gaming Day @ Your Library – Nov. 14, 2009
– Main Web site: http://ngd.ala.org
- Form to register your library as a participant
– GT System (host for video game tournaments)
- Press Release about Hasbro donation
– North Star Games, home of Wits & Wagers and Say Anything! andAlphaBound, home of LetterJAM

Brian Mayer talks about how School Libraries can get involved with National Gaming Day (since it’s on a Saturday).

Kelly Czarnecky discusses a report called Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children’s Learning and Health (link currently unavailable)
– ALA Connect Games and Gaming Member Initiative Group

Julie Scordato talks about what they do at the Columbus Metropolitan Library and continuing to advocate gaming through tough budget times
– Columbus Metropolitan Library
– Systemwide Teen Gaming Initiative, Columbus Metropolitan Library
– LibGaming Google Group
– Games & Gaming Member Initiative Group
– Making the Case: Advocacy & FAQs

A new contributor, JJ Lanza, joins us to talk about roleplaying games with a new segment, RPG101.
– John Kim’s website, which you can reach by using tinyurl.com/whatisrpg
– Bill Walton’s excellent resource website, Terra Libris, at theescapist.com. (Rpg jargon site)
– JJ’s blog is at http://back2rpgbasics.blogspot.com.

Eli Neiburger presents the structures that libraries can be involved with for NGD. He’s hosting these three events:
– Rock Band High Score Contest. Any version, any song. Log score through http://wiki.gtsystem.org
– Super Smash Brothers Brawl Bracket. 3PM Eastern Four libraries per pool, players play off and get points. Top two libraries advance. Libraries must be able to play online. E-mail at gtsystem@aadl.org to sign up.
– Mario Kart Wii tournament. SUNDAY, Nov. 15 (day after NGD). E-mail at gtsystem@aadl.org to sign up.

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Wow! My apologies – I wrote this up, saved it as a draft, and never released it! Someone should tell me about these things!

Download the September 2009 Games in Libraries episode over at The Internet Archive.

Or listen here:

Show Notes:

Donald Dennis, Georgetown County Library System, South Carolina, BYTES Project, and his graduate assistant, Thomas Maluck, about Web sites for video game reviews:
Metacritic
Gamerankings
Mobygames

Scott Nicholson reviews Wii Sports Resort and the Wii Motion Plus controller.

Julie Scordato talks about the Systemwide Teen Gaming Initiative at the Columbus Ohio Metropolitan Library

• Game On! Gaming at the Library (Neal Schuman, 2009) by Beth Gallaway
  
• Systemwide Gaming Initiative, Columbus Metropolitan Library
  
• Search Institute
  
• Entertainment Software Association
  

Beth Gallaway presents a online course called “Reaching Teens with Gaming” that she is teaching through YALSA.

Scott Nicholson explains how to play 1000 Blank White Cards, the Game of the Month for the Games and Gaming Members Initiative Group. Come and talk about it at http://connect.ala.org/node/81900

Talk about this episode over at ALA Connect!