Comp 9: Image

Celano, L. (New York Times Photographer). [Photograph] Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/30seni.html.

This photo is actually not in a library, but the article it illustrates talks a bit about them. It describes the increasing number of seniors who are getting into video games. Especially with the introduction of the Nintendo Wii, video games are no longer a very complicated and difficult to begin amusement. Some libraries have realized this and started senior Wii bowling leagues and the like. It is not only the young generation that can be drawn to the library by a couple of electronic devices.

Comp 8: Research Visual

I did a Google search on gaming in libraries education, that eventually led me to the above YouTube video. Syracuse University has sponsored a course on gaming in libraries, and the video is one example of one of their lessons. (The entire series is posted. I'm working my way through them.) This is a particularly useful one for those who don't know why anyone would want to support gaming in libraries, as well as people who support it themselves, but need a bit of help on convincing others they aren't off their rocker.

Nicholson, S. (2009, November 4).Gaming in Libraries Class Session 21 - Answering the Critics [video file]. Video posted to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coeAwZhITDg

Database Comp - JSTOR: Specific Facet

I began with a search of the terms I planned on using.

video game* - 9280
librar* - 118403
gamer* - 5080

Best results were from gamer*, which I think is the least likely to have a bunch of irrelevant articles show up on the search.

Combining video game* and gamer* gets a result count of 130, which looks much more relevant but is still a bit much to be digging through. Most of the results have to do with video games(except for one about the mating habits of tropical bats...what?), but I'm not seeing any focus on libraries or similar (for the obvious reason of it not being in the search yet)

Adding in the librar* search term cuts it down to 23 results, which is much better.

Database Comp - Dialog: Building Block

I did an ERIC search for my adventure in Dialog. I am looking for information on all aspects of video games in libraries.

My first step was a simple search for 'video games', 'gamers' and 'tournaments'. I got 406 results for video games, 27 for gamers and 316 for tournaments. I then went on as a sort of experiment to check my methods, to search for video games OR gamers OR tournaments, which gave me 725 results. More than the separate searches for each term gave.

I tried to get more specific search terms, since 735 results is a bit too many to search through. There were no results for 'video games in libraries' or 'educational video games'. I then combined the search for libraries and the search for video games or gamers, which resulted in a very manageable 40 results.

This was supposed to be using the building block strategy, but I didn't take it as far as I should have in that focus. I will attempt to return and give it another try and hopefully replace this posting.

Searching Databases: Part 2

And here is the blog post on my second round of searching the databases with better searching skills. We begin with LibraryLit.

search term with extra knowledge: (video and game) and librar*
limit: last 12 months
99 results
But none at 100%, unfortunately. Did find a really interesting article that is pretty much exactly what I'm searching for, so obviously my search methods are still not quite perfect.

Gritten, T. Providing Community Outreach through the Nintendo Wii. Indiana Libraries v. 27 no. 2 (2008) p. 10-15


ERIC
search term with extra knowledge: (video and game) and librar*
79 results

Found this little gem, makes me wish I could design video games like so many of my friends do. :(

Using Video Games to Teach Game Design: A Gaming Collection for LibrariesFull Text Available . By: Mastel, Kristen; Huston, Dave. Computers in Libraries, v29 n3 p41-44 Mar 2009. (EJ831241)
Database: ERIC


WorldCat
Same search terms. For some reason, I got some really strange results from WorldCat using the same terms as the other databases. Things like the Matilda movie and the Mahabharata. Both of which are lovely, but nothing to do with what I was searching for.

Did find some things relevant. Limited the search to books, articles and serials and most of the strange stuff disappeared. Probably the 'video' term.

Book Second life : the official guide /
Author: Rymaszewski, Michael. Publication: [San Francisco, Calif. : Sybex] ; Chichester ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley [distributor], 2007
Document: English : Book

BIP/Library Lit Comp

Database: Wilson-LibrayLit
Topic: video games in libraries
Search term: video gam* librar* (kw) - 88
Limited to within last 12 months and full text articles - 9

Laskowski, M., et. al., Building next generation video game collections in academic libraries. The Journal of Academic Librarianship v. 35 no. 3 (May 2009) p. 267-73



Database: BIP
Topic: video games in libraries
Search term: video gam* librar* (kw)-2719
Status: In Print
Publication Year:2005-2009
Country: US
Format: Book
results - 1298
Hardcover/softcover
English Language
Nonfiction
Publication Year: 2008-2009
results-365

Learning with Digital Games: A Practical Guide to Engaging Students in Higher Education
Author: Whitton, Nicola Publisher: Routledge ISBN or UPC: 0-415-99774-7 (Active Record)
Format: Trade Cloth Date: Sep 2009 Price: $140.00 Market: United States
Availability: Available for Order
LC Class #: LB2395.7.W55 2009 Dewey#: 378.1/7370285 ISBN 13: 978-0-415-99774-4

LibraryThing - Comp 5: Tagging/Cataloging

add2silo(1) adult services(1) bibliothèques(1) carnegie library of pittsburgh(1) children's services(1) computer games(3) E&O(1) gamers(1) gaming(6) Gaming and libraries(1) internet(1) jeux vidéo(1) libraries(5) libraries and gaming(1) libraries and teenagers(1) libraries and teens(1) library(1) library science(1) LS(1) non-fiction(2) North Shore(1) OCL(1) pbotw(1) professional(1) programming(1) read(1) teen(3) teen services(2) USF(1) video games(3) YA(1) youth services

http://www.librarything.com/work/3551696

I found a book on LibraryThing called Gamers . in the Library?!: The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages by Eli Neiburger.

It is a a guide to planning, setting up, and running video game tournaments in a public library in order to attract gamers, young people, parents and the general public to the library.