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There’s an interesting post on Future-making Serious Games titled Retro Remakes Competition: Serious Gaming For Accessibility that includes a call for “entrants to create accessible updated counterparts of real or imagined arcade games from the 1920’s to date.” This is a topic I hadn’t really considered

Win $100 of Games! “Out of the Box is giving $100 worth of games to whoever posts the best story about using games in education! The deadline is 8/31/2008. What are you waiting for? Go Post!” ] This offer includes libraries, and I know we have some great stories about using games in educational ways!

Little Library Got Wii “I had a fabulous time in at the ‘Gaming in Libraries’’ session of the Midwest Library Technology Conference, where they not only talked about games, they let us play. It’s more than a Field of Dreams approach, just tossing games into a room; I have worked with, read about,

Emphasis below is mine. Libraries’ Video Games Are Teen Magnet “Although some parents dislike the idea of video games in libraries, the Columbus Metropolitan Library has spent $40,000 on video-game equipment in the first two years of a program to make teenagers feel more welcome in libraries.

This is an annual survey done by Dr. Scott Nicholson, associate professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and is designed to collect information about gaming programs run in libraries in 2007. This can be any type of game (board, card, video, chess, puzzle) at any type of library (public, school, academic, or special).

—Please distribute to other lists as appropriate– Announcing the 2007 Gaming Census! This is an annual survey done by Dr. Scott Nicholson, associate professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and is designed to collect information about gaming programs run in libraries in

I’ve finally had a moment to collect room numbers, and since I see that some of the gaming stuff isn’t listed in the program guide, here’s a quick run-down. Open Gaming Night Friday, June 27, 7:30-10:30pm Hilton, Pacific Ballroom C Games and Gaming MIG meeting (open to any attendee) Saturday,

I’ve alluded to the fact that ALA is doing a lot with gaming these days, some of which is happening at our Annual Conference (which starts June 27), some of which I’ve helped organize. The biggest one is the - wait for it - “big” game, “California Dreaming.” I posted about this on the ALA Marginalia

(Yet another attempt at breaking the insanity-induced silence of this quarter - bear with me, y’all. I’ll be back on the ball soon). Today a colleague recently forwarded me the link to Citricon, a new flash game developed by the Orange County Library System - I haven’t had much time to play around with it yet, but at first glance it’s quite well designed.

I’ll be interested to see this game from the Orange County Library System (FL) when it becomes available on May 15. Citricon: Library Defender Watch for more in a couple of days at http://www.ocls.info/citricon/.