Get Your Game On!The Why & Howof GamingIn Your LibrarySirsi Midwest Users’ Group Pre-Conference 30 July 2009http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixteca/297504996/

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Gamers…see themselves as a hero on a quest.are willing to experiment and keep trying.are willing to seek expertise and ask for help.desire to collaborate.learn from their mistakes and can adapt quickly.Beck, John & Mitchell Wade. Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever. Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

Gamers…thrive on fast decision-making & good at prioritizing.are willing to take risks.are very good at multitasking and continuous partial attention.are constantly seeking to be challenged.are proactive rather than reactive.Beck, John & Mitchell Wade. Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever. Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

Gamers…are format-agnostic.want to do their own research and figure things out for themselves (no spoon-feeding).are used to creating content.expect interaction, rewards, customization, and multiple paths.have an inherent distrust of bosses.Beck, John & Mitchell Wade. Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever. Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

Whack Your Boss @ http://www.doodie.com/anger_management.php

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Average age of gamer?35http://www.theesa.com/facts/

Who are the gamers?WOMEN age 18 or older represent a greater portion of the game-playing population (34%) than boys age 17 or younger (18%).http://www.theesa.com/facts/

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This is a library, not…a place to store stacks of papera place where people can take books off of the shelvesa collection of fictiona place where children can learn to reada music storea movie theatre/movie rental storea computer laba café

a place to store stacks of paper

a place where people can take books off of the shelves

a collection of fiction

a place where children can learn to read

a music store

a movie theatre/movie rental store

a computer lab

a café

"One kid told us videogames are gateway drugs for libraries.“─ Eli Neiburger, Ann Arbor District Libraryauthor of Gamers… in the Library?!

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Teen After-Hours Game NightChatfield Public Libraryhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/66422613@N00/sets/72157594586744066/

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If your library is no place for games and entertainment then you must get rid of all of these…http://www.flickr.com/photos/arahsae/2068258/

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Further information…Christa Burnschrista.burns@nebraska.govMichael Sauersmichaelsauers@nebraska.gov800-307-2665http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/netserv/gaming.html