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.  Brainstorm thread: sharing the gospel of good cataloguing as part of GameRT's publisher outreach

    Posted 20 days ago

    Hi all,

    I'm making this post as the hopeful start of a brainstorming thread on this question:

    As part of GameRT's outreach to game developers and publishers, how -- if at all -- might GameRT provide awareness, advocacy, and support with respect to cataloguing and metadata for games?

    This topic arose from the most recent board meeting, but has been coalescing through a number of recent conversations in both the Outreach and Metadata Committees, as well as the recent publication of the Minimum Viable MARC Bibliographic Record standard created by the PCC Advisory Committee for Library Systems and Vendors. Speaking as the current Metadata Committee Chair, in an ideal world it'd be neat if we could expand our outreach such that we could help both libraries and game makers with the creation of game metadata. But given we are a volunteer body, the question remains as to what a sustainable approach to this could look like, if one is even possible.

    I'll leave it there for now so I don't make a big wall of text. Please don't hesitate to ask me questions, and I hope this becomes a thought-provoking discussion thread!

    Thank you in advance,



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    Mackenzie Johnson
    Cataloguing Librarian
    University of Saskatchewan
    He/Him/His
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  • 2.  RE: Brainstorm thread: sharing the gospel of good cataloguing as part of GameRT's publisher outreach

    Posted 14 days ago
    I think your connection with GAMA's (at GenCon) leader who sought to generate a shared lexicon across distributors and publishers about games is in this vein.
    And George's work to attend Origins or Pax.
    I understand none of those are GAMERT-official, nor likely to be, but maybe there's a way to collect, document, share elevator pitches (90 seconds), slides, or contacts to build from conference to conference as GAMERT members attend in their areas/interests.

    GDC was a week ago and might be a high value (but also high cost) goal. Indiecade, too.
    Connecting with the game design schools (U of Chicago is hosting a year of games right now), The Strong Museum's series of academic (scholars) conferences, and the Analog Games Studies Journal's annual conference might also be venues to raise awareness.  Unfortunately, the window for proposals just closed. 

    That journal is an example of a research opportunity, to properly index the articles, which could be a metadata research project in itself.

    -J Stubbs



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