Games and Libraries

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Games and Libraries

• Natalie Gick, SFU
• April 2007

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Why Games?

• Writers read . . .
• New users
• Cultural artifacts

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National Libraries

• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Library and Archives Canada
• Library of Congress

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Public Libraries

• come to the library and play some games on our
  new Playstation 2
• circulating games since 1982

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Academic Libraries

• Stanford Universitys Green Library
• History of Science and Technology Collections
• U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• console, handheld, PC and vintage games

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SFU Surrey
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GamesRoomv1 TechBC

• Student initiative
• Game design
• Other areas of study
• Employment
• Portal (Library)

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GamesRoomv2 SFU Surrey

• PCs
• Consoles and TVs

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GamesRoomv3 New Campus

• Gaming equipment and shelving

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Console Games

• 400 games
• 3 day loan
• Platforms
• Playstation 2
• Xbox Xbox 360
• Gamecube
• Super Nintendo
• Lock or loan

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PC Games

• Games
• 100 now
• gift of 400
• Licenses
• 4 hour loan
• permissions
• 6 PCs

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Handhelds

• Gameboy Advanced Nintendo DS
• 20 games
• 3 day loan
• Consoles
• 4 hour loan

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Other
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Cataloguing

• Searchable platform
• 538 System requirements PlayStation 2.
• Suppressed key
• Local marc field

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Use

• Recreational
• Course reserves
• Research

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Further reading

• Library Technology Reports v. 42. no. 5, Sept/Oct
  2006
• Gaming and Libraries Intersection of Services