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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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Extra Life 2009: a Sarcastic Gamer Community Charity Effort

  • 1.  Extra Life 2009: a Sarcastic Gamer Community Charity Effort

    Posted Sep 12, 2009 05:48 PM
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    Extra Life is a 24-hour gaming marathon to fund pediatric cancer research and treatment.

    Kanada's Kids is seeking team members and/or sponsors:

    https://waystogive.texaschildrens.org/netcommunity/kanadaskids

    http://waystogive.texaschildrens.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=210&frsid=2278

    Dedicated "in memoriam" donations, named tributes, weekly payments, and corporate matching gifts are all welcomed and processed by the Texas Children's Hospital on behalf of its Children's Cancer Center.

    An ALA group gift/sponsorship would be greatly appreciated and would go a long way towards helping to meet the very modest goal of 500$. Donations will be accepted and tallied up to 31st October.

    We will be highighting NanoMedicine and NanoSciences gaming modules, including Re-Mission by HopeLab. 

    Especial appreciation to HopeLab for its enthusiastic encouragement of my participation in the marathon, and for its graciously generous offer to distribute the Re-Mission games to 3 hospitals of my choice: Texas Children's Hospital Cancer Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.  Kindly thanking you...!