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ALA Events - Demco's prize chances and their addictive game

July 4, 2009 I love to play games! Bejeweled. Poppit! Emoticons! I love any of those games that allow you to match 3 or more in a row and stuff jumps around. So are you surprised to read that I was hooked on the Demco game Library Challenge? 

I was checking out a link to Teen Furniture from a post on LM_NET and happened to click a link to Demco furniture. Surprise! I was sucked into the game vortex and barely made it out in less than an hour. Demco has a long list of stuff they'll be doing at ALA and many chances to win prizes. 

I would really like to meet Kim Bolan to learn more about effective Teen Services in your library and to get my own signed copy of her new Teen Spaces 2 book (Saturday & Sunday in booth 2411.)

Who could miss the Book Cart Drill Team World Championships? Especially since they'll be emceed by Mo Willems and Jon Scieszka?

Just by visiting their booth you help others. Demco will donate $1 to the American Indian Library Association Scholarship Fund for every person who visits their booth (up to $3,000). You don't have to do much and they'll donate up to $3,000. No excuses accepted by me. You should go.

This year Demco also has a booth in the Gaming Pavilion Booth #1342 where you can find ideas for creating gaming environments. I really need to plan ahead next year and enter the $10,000 room makeover challenge. You should see how pathetically boring my library is right now. I am the most vibrant thing in it. My students deserve a much more visually pleasing and useful library than the beige box we have now. Looks like I should go read their contest rules.

(Actually, I'm sneaking back to play Library Challenge again. What's your high score?)

Posted by Diane Chen on July 4, 2009 | Comments (0)