Video Gaming for Information Literacy By John Fudrow 06.19.2009

Educational

Puzzles

Interactive Adventure

Multimedia Mystery

Online Board Games

Role Playing

Side Scroller CITRICON

Benevolent Blue First Person Reader?

Library Arcade I’ll Get It Within Range

Future Possibilities

Web Based or Big Game Long Playtime or Less Than a Minute Role Play or Random Activity Textual or Graphical Experience or Performance In House or Outsourced Subject Based or General Library Info Teach or Entertain Decisions

Web Based or Big Game

Long Playtime or Less Than a Minute

Role Play or Random Activity

Textual or Graphical

Experience or Performance

In House or Outsourced

Subject Based or General Library Info

Teach or Entertain

Questions? Harris, Amy, and Scott E. Rice. Gaming in Academic Libraries: Collections, Marketing, and Information Literacy . Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008.

Quarantined: Axl Wise and the Information Outbreak http://gaming.techsource.ala.org/images/e/ec/Quarantined_techsource.pdf Blood on the Stacks at Trinity http:// www.trinity.edu/jdonald/bloodonthestacks.html Bioactive http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/games/bioactive/aboutus.html Library Arcade http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/index.html Benevolent Blue http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00907320810920342 Orange County Library System http:// www.ocls.info/Virtual/Galleries/Events/gaming.asp?bhcp =1 Library Game Links

Library Game Blogs Library Games http://librarygames.blogspot.com/ LibGaming http://libgaming.blogspot.com/ Research Quest http://researchquest.blogspot.com/ ALA Techsource http://gaming.techsource.ala.org/

Resources & Game Info Entertainment Software Association http://www.theesa.com/ Gaming Bibliography http://www.refworks.com/refshare?site=045671184310000000/RWWS6A1113260/gaming%20in%20libraries Worldcat.org List http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/johnfudrow/lists/42713 History of Video Gaming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_games