From Scott Nichol­son, comes the call:

“Atten­tion ALA Members!

We are hop­ing to go to ALA Mid­win­ter with 100 sig­na­tures of ALA mem­bers to start a Mem­ber Inter­est Group on Games and Gam­ing. There are sev­eral ini­tia­tives across the ALA orga­ni­za­tion to look at gam­ing and our hope is to cre­ate a group to pro­vide a place to talk about gam­ing across demo­graph­ics and library types.

The charge of the inter­est group is:
To engage those inter­ested in games and gam­ing activ­i­ties in libraries and to col­lab­o­rate with ALA units to sup­port gam­ing ini­tia­tives and pro­grams across the Asso­ci­a­tion. Games, as defined in their broad­est sense to include tra­di­tional and mod­ern board, card, video, mobile, com­puter, live-action, role­play­ing and minia­ture games, and gam­ing activ­i­ties, includ­ing plan­ning and run­ning gam­ing pro­grams, pro­vid­ing games for infor­mal play, devel­op­ing a game col­lec­tion, cre­at­ing games, devel­op­ment of infor­ma­tion and other lit­era­cies through games and part­ner­ing with other com­mu­nity orga­ni­za­tions to sup­port gam­ing, will be top­ics for pro­fes­sional explo­ration. This group is open to all members.

If you are will­ing to help start this group, print out the peti­tion below and col­lect sig­na­tures and mem­ber num­bers of ALA mem­bers in your orga­ni­za­tion, and send it to the address on the form in the next few weeks.

The form is at http://boardgameswithscott.com/ggmig.pdf..”