About
The Games in Libraries podcast is a monthly show designed for librarians to help them explore the world of games, gaming, and gamers as it relates to libraries. All questions about the show should be directed to Scott Nicholson at scott@scottnicholson.com.
Scott Nicholson (scott@scottnicholson.com), Founder, Producer, and Contributor.
Scott is an Associate Professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies and is also the Program Director of the LIS program. Scott also is the Chief Scientist for the Library Game Lab of Syracuse. He does a regular Video series about board games at Board Games with Scott and is part of a board game podcast at On Board Games.
About the Regular Contributors:
Donald Dennis (donaldgdennis@gmail.com), Producer and Contributor.
Donald is the BYTES Project Manager for the Georgetown County Library System where he oversees games and technology programming for youth and young adults. Donald has experience as a professional in both the paper games industry where he was the Brand Manager for Silent Death: the Next Millennium and the electronic game industry where he earned a designer credit on the AAA title Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath. He also produces a regular audio podcast about board games at On Board Games.
About the Regular Contributors:
Kelly Czarnecki, Contributor.
Beth Gallaway (beth@informationgoddess.info) , Contributor.
Beth is an independent library trainer/consultant. Her company, Information Goddess Consulting,specializes in gaming, technology & youth services. Named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2006 for her work in advocating for inclusion of videogames in libraries, Beth is the moderator of the LibGaming Google Group and co-chair of the YALSA Teen Gaming Interest Group. Beth contributes to the YALSA blog, the Hip Librarian’s Book Blog and writes the “Get Your Game On” column for Voice of Youth Advocates. Game On! , her book on gaming & libraries is forthcoming from Neal Schuman in 2008.
Beth Gallaway, Contributor.
Christopher Harris (infomancy@gmail.com), Contributor.
Christopher Harris, author of the Infomancy blog, is the Coordinator of the School Library System for Genesee Valley BOCES, an educational services agency that supports the libraries of 22 small, rural districts in Western NY. In addition to his writing on Infomancy, Christopher is a technology blogger for School Library Journal on Digital Reshift as well as a regular technology columnist. Along with Andy Austin, Christopher wrote an ALA TechSource Library Technology Reports issue on using the open source Drupal content management framework in libraries published in 2008. In addition to being a participant in the first American Library Association Emerging Leaders program in 2007, Christopher was honored as a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2008. Christopher is an avid gamer as well as a dedicated reader of both digital and print formats. He lives with his wife, a K-12 school librarian, and four cats in Le Roy, NY.
Eli Neiburger, Contributor.
Eli Neiburger is the Associate Director for IT and Product Development at the Ann Arbor District Library. As a lifelong gamer, he was fortunate to get to start up the AADL-GT series of videogame tournaments in 2004, which brings annual seasons of competitive tournaments to Ann Arbor gamers of all ages. Eli has toured the country and even overseas talking about Gaming and Libraries, as well as blogs, web 2.0 technologies, social networking, and general geekery. Eli is also obsessed with cartoons and webcomics and is a regular contributor to Pop Goes the Library. He’s also been involved with the Urban Libraries Council’s Foresight 2020 Scenario Planning initiative for libraries, and he is on the board of Bricks for Brains, a small nonprofit that provides Lego-based events and services to education and community groups. Eli has produced over 200 videogame tournaments of all sizes, and his book, Gamers… in the LIBRARY?! was published in 2007 by ALA editions. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, two kids, two dogs, two guinea pigs and a lizard, but no houseplants.
