December 12, 2007

Help Form an ALA Games and Gaming Member Interest Group

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..”

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10:14 pm Comments (7)

7 Comments »

  1. Jenny, I was just look­ing in the blog­lines top 1,000 blogs…did you know you are #7??? WOW!!!
    http://beta.bloglines.com/topfeeds

    Comment by Laurie — December 16, 2007 @ 9:22 pm

  2. Hi, Lau­rie — Ask noti­fied me about this last month and while I feel incred­i­bly hon­ored, it’s a lit­tle too sur­real to think about too much! Luck­ily, this gives me a chance to thank all of you won­der­ful read­ers and com­menters. :)

    Comment by jenny — December 16, 2007 @ 11:32 pm

  3. I would like to assist your peti­tion drive. May I link to this post from http://www.kidsareexpensive.com ?

    Thanks!

    :O)

    Comment by george — December 16, 2007 @ 11:41 pm

  4. YALSA, the fastest grow­ing divi­sion in ALA, with a focus on teens ser­vices already has a Gam­ing Inter­est Group. I’ve copied the infor­ma­tion regard­ing this group below:
    Gam­ing Inter­est Group
    The pur­pose of this inter­est group is to dis­cuss issues relat­ing to teens and gam­ing and to develop and dis­sem­i­nate best prac­tices in col­lec­tions, pro­gram­ming, and related top­ics in the field of gam­ing (includ­ing video, com­puter, inter­net, hand­held, mobile, board, card, and minia­tures) for young adults ages 12–18. Bring a pro­gram to share, a game rec­om­men­da­tion, or your ques­tions about starter col­lec­tions or suc­cess­ful gam­ing events. Check out online dis­cus­sions in ALA’s Online Com­mu­ni­ties . Con­venors: Beth Gall­away and Kelly Czar­necki
    Con­tact the YALSA office at yalsa@ala.org

    Comment by Judy Nelson — December 26, 2007 @ 1:09 pm

  5. That’s true, Judy, and we cer­tainly hope to work closely with it, but the YALSA group by def­i­n­i­tion focuses only on young adults. This new group cov­ers a much broader audi­ence in all types of libraries for all ages. For exam­ple, the YALSA group wouldn’t really address gam­ing for seniors or cre­at­ing infor­ma­tion lit­er­acy games for col­lege stu­dents, and it cer­tainly wouldn’t have hosted a sym­po­sium that addressed gam­ing for every­one the way the GLLS one did this past July. This group will be able to help with pro­gram­ming and ini­tia­tives that address gam­ing in a much big­ger con­text, but that cer­tainly doesn’t exclude YALSA mem­bers or the exist­ing group. Col­lab­o­ra­tion is a won­der­ful thing. :)

    Comment by jenny — December 26, 2007 @ 5:44 pm

  6. I would love to help as well in this move­ment. I work in a col­lege where we offer degrees for the enter­tain­ment indus­try (art, game pro­gram­ming, engi­neer­ing). It would be great to talk with other peo­ple in ALA about this issue.

    Comment by Karen Wheeler — January 2, 2008 @ 10:57 am

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