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Do You Speak Geek?
Are you a book geek? A gaming geek? Do you geek the library? If you read this column, chances are you are one or several of these. And if so, this is your week to speak out, to reach out, and to geek...
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The Making Game
I found myself in an interesting conversation on Twitter a while back, chatting with Aramis Troche (@thirdmusket) about ideas for gaming in libraries. He wrote up his ideas for me, which evolved into...
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Old news / good news
The Danforth house has been in a bit of an uproar lately, so my apologies for not drawing your attention to these bits of news before now. If you’ve been staying on top of things, this is old news but...
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Envisioning the Future | Games, Gamers, and Gaming
The sf genre has always posed the question, What if? Its sister genre, high fantasy, has held the throne of popular attention for some time, but now authors are employing hard and soft sciences again,...
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A View from Down Under
I met Phil Minchin first by email, and then in person at GenCon in Indianapolis this August. This serious-yet-humorous man asked thoughtful questions and has evolved considerable insight into how games...
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On March 9, 2009, I wrote my first Games, Gamers, & Gaming blog for LJ. I introduced myself, then deferred to a few words from some old friends‚ fellow librarians, fantasy authors like Dennis...
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Change in Progress
If you keep up with your professional reading in the paper edition of Library Journal, you now know that I have chosen to step down as LJ’s games guru at the end of the year. (It’s in the issue with a...
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A Christmas Wish
Phil Minchin, who wrote about his View from Down Under last month, returns with a Christmas wish about how libraries might partner up with Steam, a games service widely known and used in the gamer...
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The State of Gaming
M. Brandon Robbins has written often as a guest blogger here, and takes on the position of games columnist for Library Journal next month. As part of our hand-off, he has written one last guest blog...
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Last Words
On November 10th, back in 2007, I spoke at the 3rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium at University of Arizona. My topic? Games Gamers and Gaming — Why You Want Them in Your Libraries. The title of that...
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