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Gaming in Libraries
New Trends
What We Are Going to Cover
Brief Recap of Why Games are Important
Examples of the Marketing Potential of Games in Libraries
Examples of Things You Can Do in Your Library
Why Should I Care About Games? What’s the average game player’s age?
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What percentage of people over the age of 50 play video games? 24%
Who is a bigger part of the game playing population – women over 18 or boys between 6 and 17? Women over 18 (31%) Boys are 20%
Numbers from the Entertainment Software Association's 2007 Sale, Usage and Data Survey
What Does This Mean?
Many adults and teens equate games as a medium with movies, books and music.
Games appeal to all ages and both genders
What is Happening Now
How many libraries have some form of in-house game activity? 40%
What percentage of the librarians surveyed reported that attendees returned to the library for non-game related activities? 76%
Go Back to Start: Gathering Baseline Information about Gaming in Libraries by Scott Nicholson, Associate Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies.
What Does It All Mean?
Games Have Become Common in Libraries
Libraries Are Using Games to Reach New Customers
Games Have Educational Value
Educational Value of Games
Many games are intellectually rich environments
Games aren’t in place of literary activities – they are a reading and writing activity
Promotes a variety of career skills Modding Teaching Positive social interaction
Using Games to Teach Customers and Staff
Let’s them work at their own paceMakes learning more funStudents with certain learning styles will
retain the information betterAdvertises services and teaches concepts
to patrons who use the library website
University of Waterloo
More Waterloo
Even More Waterloo
Carnegie Mellon University
Teach students how to shelve Avoids using valuable staff time for teaching the
same thing over and over Easy to evaluate student pages’ understanding
of Library of Congress Teach reference
Shows what is actually involved with working at a reference desk
Orange County Library
Using a Game to Advertise Services Traditional arcade style shooting game with
anthropomorphic orange Shows the player the different types of
materials available at the library At the end of the game, the player sees the
gaming programs and books about designing video games at the library
I Don’t Know How to Program and I Want a Game
PMOG Doesn’t require technical knowledge Fun Can only be used to teach online
Learn How to Do It Gamemaker
Outsource Have someone else build a game for you
What Makes a Good Game
Have a Point to Your Game Remember It Should Still Be Fun! Be Open to Feedback and Use It
For More Information
http://animeted.org/4librarians/video-games/Video-games-in-libraries.htm
Video Games in Libraries
www.ydacs.com/www.ydacs.com/ Further Reading:
Gazer, S. (2006, November 10). Video games. CQ Researcher, 16, 937-960. Retrieved July 14, 2008, from CQ Researcher Online, http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2006111000.
Kathy:
kmakens@durhamcountync.gov
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