Go for the 1up! Score Big Points when Pitching a Video Games Collection

From TechSource Gaming Symposium

Presenters: David Baker, Annie Zeidman-Karpinski (University of Oregon)

Description: Annie and David offer hints and tips for obtaining and maintaining administrative approval for a collection of circulating video games. The University of Oregon began circulating current-gen video game hardware and software to students, faculty, and staff in the Fall of 2007. One academic year later we're ready to share our experience to benefit librarians and library staff who want to broach the subject of expanding library holdings in this direction, but aren't quite sure how to start (and/or sustain) the conversation.

Intended Audiences:

• Pretty much any librarian

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• All types of libraries

(Specifically, our talk will be aimed at librarians interested in the circulation of game hardware and software at their library. We will present from the perspective of a university-affiliated academic institution; however, much of the information should be useful to a broader audience of librarians.)

Documentation regarding acquisition, cataloging, and set up of consoles and software can be found here: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/5456 Our chapter in the ACRL casebook, "Gaming in Academic Libraries," can be found here: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/5924

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