12.10.09
Games in Libraries, December 2009
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.
Talk about this episode over at ALA Connect!
