Saturday is National Gaming Day @ Your Library
Saturday is National Gaming Day @ Your Library
November 10, 2008
Books?
Who needs books at a library?
This Saturday is gaming day in the stacks, baby.
That's because the American Library Association has declared November 15th to be the first-ever National Gaming Day @ Your Library Day. Libraries across the country (some more than others, certainly) will celebrate the fun and educational benefits of video and board games.
In addition to online gaming events, Wizards of the Coast has donated copies of D&D as well as Magic the Gathering to libraries so that they may run local tournaments.
ALA president Jim Rettig commented:
Gaming formats have become a valuable tool for libraries, Not only has this new format increased library usage from hard to reach users such as teens, we also have found that video games attract a variety of users and are a great vehicle to teach basic technology skills.
More info is available from the ALA.
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Posted 11/21/09 at 08:16am
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ZippyDSMlee: Welcome and goodmorning its zippy in the AM....wat OMG its 8:50AM!!!!
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:42pm
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ZippyDSMlee: oh may the cute stab out your eyes, http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:17pm
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:10pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No thank you I don;t want your cooties...or STDs...
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No thank you I don;t want your cooties...or STDs...
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:01pm
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:59pm
DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:49pm
JDKJ: I cud caer lez. =^^= *wakes up in mid-afternoon after staying up until 3:00AM soldering resistors on to circuit boards, stumbles around in formerly white but now grey underwear, while simultaneously scratching groin with vigor and making coffee*
JDKJ: I cud caer lez. =^^= *wakes up in mid-afternoon after staying up until 3:00AM soldering resistors on to circuit boards, stumbles around in formerly white but now grey underwear, while simultaneously scratching groin with vigor and making coffee*
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:46pm
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:44pm
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:42pm
DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:33pm
JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No and I ain't touching any part of you or your friends!! :P
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No and I ain't touching any part of you or your friends!! :P
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:25pm
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Lik Mitaint?
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Lik Mitaint?
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
ZippyDSMlee: neill and bob,oldest giveing head joke and most lamest...
ZippyDSMlee: neill and bob,oldest giveing head joke and most lamest...
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:for the record I told you you can suck your own dck.
ZippyDSMlee: JD:for the record I told you you can suck your own dck.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:07pm
JDKJ: Naw, man. That's Mueedeegiaap and Bob. And you can stop bobbing. I got Zippy bobbing now, too.
JDKJ: Naw, man. That's Mueedeegiaap and Bob. And you can stop bobbing. I got Zippy bobbing now, too.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:56pm
DarkSaber: OH I get it now! It's Men In Black quote! The twins that run the comm centre in HQ.
DarkSaber: OH I get it now! It's Men In Black quote! The twins that run the comm centre in HQ.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:49pm
JDKJ: I'd like to introduce you to them. First, Neil. Then, Bob.
JDKJ: I'd like to introduce you to them. First, Neil. Then, Bob.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:47pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:I know they are intimate friends of yours...
ZippyDSMlee: JD:I know they are intimate friends of yours...
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D&D tournaments, local library? Ahhhhh Yeah! I think I just had a nerdgasm. I'd SOO be there if they had one in this area.
"Dungeons and Dragons is still 'Satan's Game' in my home town. I highly doubt they will have the tournaments around here.
I'd bet it is here too. 'Sides. I can't go back to the big library near here... Some kid lost a book I had borrowed and I'm not paying for it. :s
Damnit, I was wondering why my library never has the Kama Sutra.
They possibly could've picked a better day for this. November 15th is also National Novel Writing Month's "Night Of Writing Dangerously," and I believe a lot of NaNo participants are setting up marathon write-in sessions (or at least we're doing it in my region.)
Obviously there's going to be a conflict no matter what date you pick (it's also conference final day in the Canadian Football League, for example) but these are a pair of literary-esque events that seem like they could be kept apart.
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The Mammon Industry
How do you "Write dangerously"?
Is your pen/pencil wired to a bomb that will detonate if you write less than 40 words per minute?
Are you writing random summoning spells from the necromonicon and hoping that you don't summon up one of the Great Old Ones?
Maybe you are writing a story while swimming with great whites who are frenzied.....
Dear IRS,
I have decided that I won't be paying taxes next year and there's nothing you pencil necked dweebs can do about it.
Here's my address [insert address], in case you lilly livered cowards ever want to come over. I need something to laugh at and seeing your wimpy quivering faces when you get this letter will do just that.
Sincerely,
[your name]
THAT'S how you write dangerously.
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"What for you bury me in the cold cold ground?" - Tasmanian devil
Last year we held our party in a penthouse apartment. Person with the lowest wordcount at the end of the day got thrown out the window. :D
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The Mammon Industry
They should have went with Thompson's Disbarment date as National Gaming Day. It is fitting.
At the risk of making a bad pun... This is long overdue...
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin
Ow, my brains.
Bad weekend to choose it.
A few million gamers across the US will be chained to their PC with the WoW expansion release.
I know if something like that came down here (Aus) I'd be interested in going along, but not this weekend!
I saw the youtube video attached to this posting and said, "Wait, WHUT?"
When I was little and my library only had Apple ][s and similar machines, you could use them, with a reservation, to play edutainment games. And this was 20 years ago or so.
Bitching. Doubt my library will do it though.
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What the **** is this ****?! Trippin' off Acid or something!
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"Because this town is under the stranglehold of a few tight eyed Tree Huggers who would rather play Hacky Sack than lock up the homeless" -- Birch Barlow
WoW! First DVDs make it into libraries and now this. It'd be amazing once those hard to find PC games also start popping up in local libraries (just as I can find movies which aren't easy to track down in stores). I doubt they'll limit the gamebase to edutainment only since all genres of movies tend to appear already. It also seems to make being a librarian a pretty sweet job for those in charge of the games area.