Comments on: Syracuse Library Game Lab Gets Funding from Gaylord http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/02/15/syracuse-library-game-lab-gets-funding-from-gaylord.html shifting libraries at the speed of byte Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:40:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: University Update - Syracuse University - Syracuse Library Game Lab Gets Funding from Gaylord http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/02/15/syracuse-library-game-lab-gets-funding-from-gaylord.html#comment-1801 University Update - Syracuse University - Syracuse Library Game Lab Gets Funding from Gaylord Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:45:34 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/02/15/syracuse-library-game-lab-gets-funding-from-gaylord.html#comment-1801 [...] Virginia University Syracuse Library Game Lab Gets Funding from Gaylord » This Summary is from an article posted at The Shifted Librarian on Friday, February 15, 2008 [...] […] Virginia University Syracuse Library Game Lab Gets Funding from Gaylord » This Summary is from an article posted at The Shifted Librarian on Friday, February 15, 2008 […]

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]]> By: royce http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/02/15/syracuse-library-game-lab-gets-funding-from-gaylord.html#comment-1804 royce Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:06:23 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/02/15/syracuse-library-game-lab-gets-funding-from-gaylord.html#comment-1804 Wow, that is cool. I think people need to realize that creating a portable gaming center is easier than it sounds. After you have bought the console, a digital projector will put that show on the road. Not that digital projectors are cheap, but even the old dusty one we have works real well. At MPOW we are getting ready to take the wii to senior centers and do a little library song and dance, and then play some games. And why does FPS games scare people so much? It feels like you have to present gaming as all cute and cuddly. Believe me this is not the reasons most people are into gaming. Wow, that is cool. I think people need to realize that creating a portable gaming center is easier than it sounds. After you have bought the console, a digital projector will put that show on the road. Not that digital projectors are cheap, but even the old dusty one we have works real well.

At MPOW we are getting ready to take the wii to senior centers and do a little library song and dance, and then play some games.

And why does FPS games scare people so much? It feels like you have to present gaming as all cute and cuddly. Believe me this is not the reasons most people are into gaming.

]]> By: LarryN the LibraryN http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/02/15/syracuse-library-game-lab-gets-funding-from-gaylord.html#comment-1826 LarryN the LibraryN Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:30:34 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/02/15/syracuse-library-game-lab-gets-funding-from-gaylord.html#comment-1826 To quote a friend: "I do think that videogames are a great opportunity to help us bridge a gap in service to the kinds of people who tend to be engineers. Of course, we'd also do that by having decent sci-fi and fantasy collections (sci-fi is particularly pathetic at most libraries), a better selection of audiobooks (pathetic everywhere, even when you factor in Overdrive), and more techie manuals. These are thinking, intelligent, active people who hardly use the library at all, which is a shame, since they're the kind of fun people we'd like to have around (and who don't need to be escorted away in police cars). " She works in a library where they don't have 2 cop cars showing up every day hauling away or tossing people out of the library. I do. It's all in how you look at things. To quote a friend: “I do think that videogames are a great opportunity to help us bridge a gap in service to the kinds of people who tend to be engineers. Of course, we’d also do that by having decent sci-fi and fantasy collections (sci-fi is particularly pathetic at most libraries), a better selection of audiobooks (pathetic everywhere, even when you factor in Overdrive), and more techie manuals. These are thinking, intelligent, active people who hardly use the library at all, which is a shame, since they’re the kind of fun people we’d like to have around (and who don’t need to be escorted away in police cars). ”

She works in a library where they don’t have 2 cop cars showing up every day hauling away or tossing people out of the library. I do. It’s all in how you look at things.

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