Game It Up!

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Author_David Folmar
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Community
Engagement
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Gaming
Library Programming
Library Services
Technology

Product details

  • ISBN 9781442253346
  • Weight: 358g
  • Dimensions: 160 x 237mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Aug 2015
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Using game thinking and game mechanics in non-game settings to promote engagement and learning is a new trend in both business and education sectors. Savvy marketers are gamifying their efforts by offering customers loyalty badges, check-in incentives, and achievement rewards and clever employers are leveraging this new trend to gamify their training and innovation processes. Discover how you can use game design techniques to involve patrons and motivate staff in your library. This primer will walk you through incorporating game thinking into bibliographic instruction, staff training, the online catalog, and more. Learn how to gamify the library experience.

This A–Z guidebook covers a range of exciting ways to use gamification in your library. Readers will learn the ins and outs of gamification techniques through projects, such as:

badge hunts for staff orientation;a “face of the library” game for patron services;badges for your programs;augmented reality and a catalog Easter egg hunt;interactive fiction for information literacy education; and,top-down video games for library orientation.

David Folmar is the emerging technology librarian at Richmond Public Library. He holds degrees in MLS, CTS and CMS. He sat on the RVA MakerFest Leadership Committee and has been involved with Coding literacy in the CoderDojo, Indie Game Development, and Independent Filmmaking communities. Folmar is new to Librarianship but has a previous career in audiovisual production and digital communications. He looks for the areas where community engagement, STEAM education, social reasonability, and technology overlap.

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