Posted in Academic, Clever, Gaming, Libraries on Monday, February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The Notre Dame libraries have an innovative program to introduce first-year students to the various campus libraries: Caching in @ the Libraries.
“All First Year students are eligible to compete for iPod Shuffles, ND t-shirts, and other prizes. Have fun while getting to know your way around the campus, find out about library services, and meet [...]
Posted in Clever, Gaming, Humor, Tv / Video, Word soup, tagged ACRL, ALA on Thursday, January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
World of Warcraft commercial parody - Belf Librarian from Topeka Library:
“Lysistrata is a Blood Elf Hunter. She is also a librarian. This video is a parody of the popular Mr T. and Shatner commercials”
[video ca. 1.5 min]
I know I’m not the only librarian who plays WoW. Clearly I’m also not the only librarian who enjoys [...]
Posted in Conferences, Gaming, Tech, Word soup, tagged IL2007 on Sunday, November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I started the day with Mashups & Data Visualizations: New Breed of Web Applications by Darlene Fichter. Impressive stuff. Then I had a really tough choice again: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, or World of Warcraft vs. Second Life. I’ve been interested in SL for a while, so that tipped the scale. (I do [...]
Posted in Gaming on Thursday, May 17, 2007 | No Comments »
A visiting blogger, Michael Westfall, in the Tame The Web blog talked about games in his school library in Chicago. At first reading I wanted to dismiss his concerns. Then I realized that I was looking at the issue from the perspective of someone whose world has not always had computer games. I actually witnessed [...]
