Video Gaming for Information LiteracyBy John Fudrow

06.19.2009

Puzzles

Online Board Games

Interactive Adventure

Multimedia Mystery

Role Playing

Side Scroller

CITRICON

Benevolent Blue

First Person Reader?

Library Arcade

I’ll Get It Within Range

Future Possibilities

Web Based or Big GameLong Playtime or Less Than a Minute

Role Play or Random ActivityTextual or Graphical

Experience or PerformanceIn House or Outsourced

Subject Based or General Library InfoTeach or Entertain

Decisions

Questions?

Harris, Amy, and Scott E. Rice. Gaming in Academic Libraries: Collections, Marketing, and Information Literacy. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008.

Quarantined: Axl Wise and the Information Outbreak http://gaming.techsource.ala.org/images/e/ec/Quarantined_techsource.pdf

Blood on the Stacks at Trinity

http://www.trinity.edu/jdonald/bloodonthestacks.html

Bioactive

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/games/bioactive/aboutus.html

Library Arcadehttp://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/index.html

Benevolent Bluehttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00907320810920342

Orange County Library Systemhttp://www.ocls.info/Virtual/Galleries/Events/gaming.asp?bhcp=1

Library Game Links

Library Game Blogs

Library Gameshttp://librarygames.blogspot.com/

LibGaminghttp://libgaming.blogspot.com/

Research Questhttp://researchquest.blogspot.com/

ALA Techsourcehttp://gaming.techsource.ala.org/

Resources & Game Info

Entertainment Software Associationhttp://www.theesa.com/

Gaming Bibliographyhttp://www.refworks.com/refshare?site=045671184310000000/RWWS6A1113260/gaming%20in%20libraries

Worldcat.org Listhttp://www.worldcat.org/profiles/johnfudrow/lists/42713

History of Video Gaminghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_games