The “Gam­ing, Learn­ing, and Libraries Spot­light” area at ALA’s Mid­win­ter Meet­ing was very suc­cess­ful. We had a pretty steady stream of folks watch­ing and play­ing videogames. I’d be a rich woman if I sold gam­ing equip­ment on com­mis­sion at these things (hint, Nin­tendo, hint).

This year, the setup was in the reg­is­tra­tion hall, rather than in a booth on the exhibit floor, so we got a cou­ple of mem­bers to help cover the area. Big thanks to Chad Hae­fele and Matt Roach for doing such a great job.

So great, in fact, that Chad scored a star­ring role in Philly.com’s cov­er­age of the Meet­ing on their web­site (although they did spell his last name incor­rectly — sorry, Chad).

Thanks to every­one who stopped by the spot­light and helped us have so much fun. We’ll see you at Annual in Ana­heim when we do it again (along with the big game!).

Bonus: The paper also included an edi­to­r­ial about videogames in libraries by ALA Pres­i­dent Loriene Roy.