Gaming Taskforce at my Library

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We now have a gaming taskforce at my library! The taskforce's goal is to create a gaming plan for our library system, and report back to our management group... then the management group will decide where to go from there.

So we now have a gaming taskforce group email account, and I have a couple of email and computer gaming folders... wow.

And I also did some brainstorming on gaming at the library today, and thought I'd share it. It's not neccessarily what we'll be doing - just my thoughts. But some of you might be interested in them, nonetheless... so:

David’s Gaming Goals

• console gaming
  
  • set up networked game system at each location
  • it should be movable
  • create programming around the equipment
    
    • game nights
    • parent/kid game challenges/learning
    • branch/location challenge tournaments
    • how to play types of training
    • health DDR programming
  • train staff in use
  • create web help guides for console gaming
    
    • how to play
    • where to play - highlight programming
    • cheats and other online pointers
• online gaming
  
  • create web guides for popular games
  • i.e., Runescape
    
    • basics of play
    • cheats and other online pointers
  • create programming around games
    
    • how to play
    • introduction to online gaming - what they are
• Little Kid's gaming
  
  • provide clear pointers to games like Neopets.com
  • create web guides for popular games
    
    • how to play
    • cheats and other online pointers
    • where the games can be found
• circulating games
  
  • buy top 25 games in one format
  • same format of equipment we purchase
  • some for each branch
• patron gamers
  
  • books on games
    
    • game theory (everything bad is good for you)
    • how to play (Dummies guides, etc)
    • young adult novels with gaming plots
  • movies?
  • Magazines
• phase two
  
  • Challenge other libraries
    
    • challenge other library system to a tournament
    • see if they can be networked tournaments
  • Teen Center in Central
    
    • "The Game Vault"
  • Take gaming to the community
    
    • Set up mobile gaming unit
    • create school programming/learning opportunities
    • take it to community groups
    • take it to church youth groups in KCPL area?
    • have a library component, too
      
      • one idea - to play, you have to have a library card
      • or you have to sign up for a library card