GAMERT (Gaming) Round Table

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The mission of the Games and Gaming Round Table is to provide the following:
  • A forum for the exchange of ideas and concerns surrounding games in libraries;
  • Resources to the library community to support the building and maintaining of library game collections;
  • A force for initiating and supporting game programming in libraries;
  • Create an awareness of, and need for, the support of the value of gaming and play in libraries, schools, and related learning communities.
  • Create an awareness of the value of games and gaming in library outreach and community engagement plans.
  • A professional and social forum for networking among librarians and non-librarians interested in games and gaming.
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Time to Fill Out the Annual Gaming Census

  • 1.  Time to Fill Out the Annual Gaming Census

    Posted May 11, 2009 04:56 AM
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    Time for the census of 2008 library gaming programs!

    Did your public, academic, school, or speacial library run a gaming program in 2008? 

    Did you have Chess, Scrabble, Computer games, Console games or ANY other type of gaming as a library program?

    It's time to tell us about it!

    We've been collecting this data for the last two years, and it's been very valuable in helping us to understand how libraries are using data.  This data is useful in getting grant funding for the field and helps us to demonstrate how we are taking gaming seriously.

    You can take the survey at
    http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2f7OHgA9CgOiCtqEc_2bjGnug_3d_3d
    by May 31st.


    If you want to see the publications that have come from the previous surveys, you can find articles at
    http://gamelab.syr.edu/publications/


    Thanks!

    Scott Nicholson
    Syracuse University School of Information Studies