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The Shelving Game
October 16, 2007
Check out these two online games created by graduate students from the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the University Libraries (and the support of the Buhl Foundation). The games, “Within Range” (in which books are sorted according to Library of Congress classification) and “I’ll Get It!” (searching for relevant information resources) are in the online Library Arcade, and are currently in Beta testing phase – but they seem to be fully functional, and you can give feedback to the folks at Carnegie Mellon right then and there.
There are other links of interest at this CM gaming page, including a link to the ALA Techsource page describing their Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium held last year, as well as links to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s “Information Literacy Game” (but since I can’t bring myself to link you to anything with the abhorrent phrase, “Information Literacy” in the title you’ll have to find that link yourselves), and to the game, “Quarantined,” from Arizona State University. These are pretty interesting and creative uses of gaming to get across library concepts that are not necessarily the most exciting aspects of students’ research lives – and you DON’T have to dress an avatar to use them, thank heavens!
More as it happens,
Cheryl
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on October 16, 2007 | Comments (0)
