The digital divide is becoming more and more about technology literacy and not about technology access [and] gaming on computers is an important part of attaining that technology literacy. - Jessamyn West
ACLA Gaming Trunk
Specific Games
- Runescape is an online role-playing game that can be accessed for free or for $5/month if you'd like expanded access. It's very popular, having just reached the million subscribers milestone. If you are unfamiliar with it, check out this great intro article!
- Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) is another active game where players have to hit the right steps in time on a floor pad to score points. This article points out how DDR can help combat childhood obesity!
- Guitar Hero is another simulation game, except this time users have controllers shaped like guitars to play along with the onscreen songs.
- How to do Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) at your library: Everything you need to know!
Specific Consoles
- GameCube: The Wikipedia entry that includes everything!
- Nintendo Wii It's a motion-sensitive console that picks up a player's movements. This means that if you play a tennis video game, you actually swing your controller as if you were playing on a court!
Making the Case for Gaming at your Library
Libraries that Game
- Article on Carvers Bay, South Carolina: Gaming Club
- BNGameFest at Bloomington Public Library: article and website
- Bloomington Public Library has a wonderful gallery of pictures from their Gamefests showing off their teen gamers and all of the fun they're having. Photos can be found here and here.
- Gaming at Orlando Public Library
- Check THIS out! It's from Gamespot (an online Video Game journal) about Kentucky Libraries that will offer games as part of their circulating collection. (Note the comments!)
Want to Start Gaming at Your Library?
Additional Links
- A great opportunity for anyone so interested in gaming at the library that they must share their wealth of knowledge with ALA's FIRST annual Gaming, Learning and Libraries Symposium
- Speaking of gaming, this is the gaming @ the library blog mentioned by David King a the ALSC conference
- I participated in an online discussion about gaming last fall called Power, Play, Participation sponsored by the Macarthur Foundation.
- Booklist recently published this list of books that have special appeal to gamers
- Karen Brooks-Reese created a great resource page on the teen wiki with all kinds of good, additional information on gaming at the library.
gaming advocacy.pdf
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