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Serving gamers
- Circulating video games in libraries
- February 2005 article on starting a circulating video game collection.
- Circulating video games in libraries: six months later
- Update of February 2005 article on starting a circulating video game collection.
- Circulating video games in libraries: six more months later
- Third article on starting a circulating video game collection.
- Video games and libraries handout
- Beth Galloway's presentation handout links to papers answering questions: What is a good game? Who games? Why game? What are the positive impacts of gaming?
- Game on blog
- News and ideas about gaming in libraries from a group of game playing librarians.
- ulo.tricho.us blog
- Postings by the king of video game tournaments in libraries, Eli Neiburger, Tech Manager at the Ann Arbor District Library.
- LibGaming mailing list
- Google Group discussing gaming in libraries.
- Download and try educational computer games
- Five games about the Wild West, clothing business, democracy, raising sheep and pigs, running a pizza delivery service.
Reading, writing and games
- Seven things librarians can do to appeal to the gamer generation
- Beth Galloway discusses readers advisory, gaming magazines, librarians' behavior and attitude.
- If you like this game, try reading...
- Beth Galloway encourages reading by using game preferences to recommend book genres.
- Random House online games
- Online games based on childrens books.
- Novel-based board games: #1, #2
- Two Web pages from the same online game vendor. List #1 can be sorted by title or customer rating.
- List of books based on computer and video games
- Wikipedia list
- Novels based on computer and video games
- Wikipedia list
- List of computer and video games based on anime and manga
- Wikipedia list
- FanFiction
- Stories written by fans of games, movies, TV shows, comic books, etc.
- Libraries could sponsor fanfiction writing group and contests.
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- Eleven steps to improve your fan fiction
- Paragraph long tips.
- How to write better fan fiction
- Hints about punctuation, characterization, comic relief, expressing emotions, actions, sounds, etc.
- How to write readable fan fiction
- Essays covering dialogue, character thoughts, punctuation, vocabulary and repetition.
Best board, card and party games
- Best board games
- List of board games that have been at least nominated for an award and is rated by players at least 4 out of 5 stars.
- Best card games
- List of card games that have been at least nominated for an award and is rated by players at least 4 out of 5 stars.
- Best party games
- List of party games that have been at least nominated for an award and is rated by players at least 4 out of 5 stars.
- Mario Brothers Memorial Public Library
- Reviews of board and card games.
Video Games
- Video games
- Links to articles and sites about video games.
- Video game consoles
- Links to Wikipedia articles and official Web sites about the major video game hardware.
- Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) video game
- Links to articles and sites about DDR.
- Guitar Hero video game
- Links to articles and sites about this popular video game.
Online Games
- Online Games
- Links to articles and sites about online games.
- Funschool
- Online games based on school curriculums
- Good Experience Games
- Links to dozens of pleasant, little online games.
- Runescape night in Hutchinson (Kansas) Public Library
- Detailed descriptions of 6 Runescape games during one Runescape night. Also lists 8 URLs of Runescape related Web sites.
- Chris Rippel's list of Runescape Web sites
- List of Web sites of explanations and tips of Runescape.
Events
- Best practices for gaming in libraries
- Numerous brief examples game nights in libraries.
- How to run a tournament (Microsoft Word)
- Instructions for running a tournament and how to seed brackets for single elimination, double elimination and round robin tournaments.
- Parties based on favorite computer games
- Search game's Web sites for ideas and occupy guests with activities based on the game.
- Perfect game night
- Eight players describe the perfect game night.
- Lee County P.L.A.Y at Lee County (Georgia) Library
- Description of series of PS2 and Runescape events, followed by advice for next time.
- Runescape night in Hutchinson (Kansas) Public Library
- Detailed descriptions of 6 Runescape games during one Runescape night. Also lists 8 URLs of Runescape related Web sites.
- Runescape tournament at Meade (Kansas) Public Library
- Description of an afternoon, two-hour double elimination tournament on 8 library computers.
- Runescape discussion group at Lackman Branch of Johnson County Public Library
- Chris Koppenhaver, Youth Services Librarian, gathered Runescape players together to exchange information, swap stories and brag.