I just returned from giv­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion about gam­ing and libraries to a crowd of enthu­si­as­tic librar­i­ans at the Net­Speed Con­fer­ence in Cal­gary. I love doing pre­sen­ta­tions for and talk­ing with Cana­dian librar­i­ans, because I think they do a much bet­ter job of pool­ing resources and work­ing together than we do in the U.S. I’ll be inter­ested to see if they apply that same effort to gam­ing (I’m bet­ting they will).

For those Net­Speed­ers who may be vis­it­ing here for the first time, wel­come! Please feel free to leave a com­ment about the pre­sen­ta­tion or gam­ing in gen­eral. The slides will be avail­able at http://theshiftedlibrarian.pbwiki.com/ later today.

I also want to thank the con­fer­ence orga­niz­ers for mak­ing a dona­tion to the Lois Hole Library Legacy Pro­gram in my name. What a great idea. Yeah, Cana­dian librar­i­ans rock hard.