University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Brawling in the Library: Gaming Programs for Impactful Outreach and Instruction at an Academic Library

Vanden Elzen, Angela M.; Roush, Jacob

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/46056

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Title
Brawling in the Library: Gaming Programs for Impactful Outreach and Instruction at an Academic Library
Author(s)
  • Vanden Elzen, Angela M.
  • Roush, Jacob
Issue Date
2013
Keyword(s)
  • Gaming in libraries
  • Academic libraries
Abstract
Academic libraries not only need to focus on instructing students about library resources but also need to actively reach out to them. One way to accomplish this is to integrate gaming into library programming and instruction. The staff of the Lawrence University Seeley G. Mudd Library has been successfully incorporating games into library outreach programming. This article explores the various ways academic libraries have been integrating games into instruction and programming and provides advice and anecdotal evidence from programming experiences at the Seeley G. Mudd Library.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46056
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2013.0016
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2013 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 61 (4) Spring 2013: The Impact of Gaming on Libraries PRIMARY
Library Trends 61 (4) Spring 2013: The Impact of Gaming on Libraries. Edited by Scott Nicholson