Why Games? By Liz Danforth - 05/15/2009
Twenty-five years ago, librarians met gamers at the castle gates with pitchforks and torches, not sure exactly what to think about these loud, rowdy college kids declaring they were delving into dungeons to kill dragons—and, yes, it was mainly college kids back then. Most of us gamers, however, grew up into normal, productive citizens, had families and kids of our own (whom we let play mo...
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Game Ratings Rundown By Shawn McCann - 02/15/2009
Most video games released in North America carry a rating from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), a nonprofit, self-regulatory, third-party entity formed in 1994 by what is now the Entertainment Software Association. ESRB ratings consist of two parts: a rating symbol on the front of the game box addressing age-appropriateness, and one of over 30 different content descriptors (e.
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Top Games 01/15/2009
For the period January-November 2008; rated according to the Entertainment Software Rating Board system; Rentrak Home Video Essentials™.
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Gaming Basics: Game Genres Demystified By Shawn McCann - 01/15/2009
Videogames are typically grouped into genres based on gameplay interaction, but there's no standardized criteria for defining game genres, and the unofficial list is long, contentious, changing, and rife with crossovers. A syllabus for a game development course taught recently at Tufts University's Department of Computer Science named 26 different genre classifications under a "running list of ...
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Gaming Basics: Not Just for Boys Anymore By Shawn McCann - 11/15/2008
Picture a videogame player. What do you see? Ten or 15 years ago, the question might have evoked an image of an adolescent boy, probably in a basement somewhere, parked zombie-like in front of the television. This stereotype simply doesn't hold true anymore; today's gamers span all ages and both genders.
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Nurturing Your Media By Nanette Donohue - 11/15/2008
No other category of library materials has grown more quickly in the last several decades than audiovisual (AV), nor has any other category undergone so many changes in format. The transitions from vinyl records to 8-tracks to audiocassettes to CDs and from film reel to ¾" U-Matic to VHS to DVD have impacted library services tremendously.
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Games, Gamers, & Gaming Liz Danforth, MLS, game developer June 29, 2009 Origins Awards
The Origins Game Fair takes place about this time each year, and it’s a great c... More
Games, Gamers, & Gaming Liz Danforth, MLS, game developer June 10, 2009 A Day in the Cloud
I have mixed feelings about writing on the topic ahead because of the marketing comme... More
Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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