Digital Games in Libraries and Information Science

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Stereotypical image of librarians

…even stereotypical action figures

Librarians live (and love) to party… Lenore M. Edman, www.evilmadscientist.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/amywatts/

…and librarians love video games (and nerds) www.flickr.com/photos/alapublishing/958324286/

www.flickr.com/photos/alatechsourceblog/366536961/ www.flickr.com/photos/rachelvacek/636744058/ www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/1799339137/

www.flickr.com/photos/alatechsourceblog/366428922/

Entertainment in (or from) the library ,[object Object],[object Object],www.flickr.com/photos/westmontlibrary/509542664/

10 ways librarians and digital games collide

1. Preservation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

“Library of Congress to Preserve Virtual Worlds” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Preserving Games - an ideal task for librarians? Other organisations preserving e.g. “ The machine was on loan from The Museum of Moving Images permanent collection. Apparently, when the Queens, NY based museum decided to start preserving video games’ past, they purchased a whole slew of classic gaming machines… about 300 according to Cunningham. They have five Donkey Kongs that they swap in and out (at the museum the public can play assorted classic games from over the years).” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

2. Keeping children quiet in public libraries ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

3. Get people into the library ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Different levels of game facility access www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=13796

St. Joseph County Library www.flickr.com/photos/sjcpl/495450445/

Justifying a library gaming tournament ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

4. Circulating games ,[object Object],[object Object],www.flickr.com/photos/cantonpubliclibrary/1260600600/ Canton Public Library

Survey of 400 US public libraries ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Nicholson, Scott. (2007). The Role of Gaming in Libraries: Taking the Pulse . White paper available online at http://boardgameswithscott.com/pulse2007.pdf

University of Illinois Library Gaming Collection

Storing games for lending www.animeted.org/4librarians/video-games/Video-games-ports.htm

5. Circulating support materials ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

6. Teaching information literacy and searching ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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University of North Carolina Info Lit game ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Simple web-based games easy to make www.quia.com/rr/124501.html

7. Training library staff Christy Branston, GovInfo librarian, University of Waterloo library

8. Empowering literacy through games ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

9. Developing skills through supporting game design

10. Providing info services via virtual worlds www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/526287970/

Hundreds of libraries, and librarians, in Second Life www.flickr.com/photos/inju/268061417/

Why? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Plenty of blogs on games in libraries

Library success: best practices wiki www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Gaming

Digital Information Services? Information Studies? Information Science? Library Studies?

Reader, game, library, technology, literature...

Digital Info Service vs Digital Game ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

A few common areas of research (?) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Digital library support for EU-funded learning games ,[object Object]

Creeping onto the Information Science and Studies curriculum Duke University

Inter-library game grid idea ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Researching real-life simulations in virtual worlds ,[object Object],[object Object],Learning from Virtual Plagues news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39231001,00.htm

Small amount of research on games in libraries

Librarians researching libraries in Second Life www.timothygreig.com/?page_id=24

Back where we started. Librarians, partying (in SL) www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/250151073/

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