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.

  • 1.  OnePlay for Libraries

    Posted Jul 08, 2016 01:35 PM

    Hi everyone!


    I was wondering if anyone's libraries offer their patrons access to OnePlay? I am considering this service but want to hear input: the good and the bad, if it is well utilized by your library, etc.


    Thank you very much!


     



  • 2.  RE: OnePlay for Libraries

    Posted Jul 12, 2016 06:23 AM

    I had a chance to play around with it a little bit after last annual and was left with a "meh" feeling. Not a lot of familiar titles, mostly smaller and not the best titles. They did have a handful of more familiar titles, but not many. That may have changed in the last 6-9 months, but that was my initial experience.



  • 3.  RE: OnePlay for Libraries

    Posted Jul 12, 2016 08:20 AM

    Hi Brian,

    Thank you so much for your feedback. I am considering this for my library. I am going to attend a webinar about OnePlay soon, so hopefully they'll have some more impressive titles now that its been awhile. I do like how patrons can access the games any time, and we currently don't circulate PC games at my library, so it would fill a hole in that sense.