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Librarian's Guide to Games and Gamers - From Collection Development to Advisory Services (Paperback)
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Librarian's Guide to Games and Gamers - From Collection Development to Advisory Services (Paperback)
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Helps librarians who are not themselves seasoned gamers to better
understand the plethora of gaming products available and how they
might appeal to library users. As games grow ever-more ubiquitous
in our culture and communities, they have become popular staples in
public library collections and are increasing in prominence in
academic ones. Many librarians, especially those who are not
themselves gamers or are only acquainted with a handful of games,
are ill-prepared to successfully advise patrons who use games. This
book provides the tools to help adult and youth services librarians
to better understand the gaming landscape and better serve gamers
in discovery of new games-whether they are new to gaming or
seasoned players-through advisory services. This book maps all
types of games-board, roleplaying, digital, and virtual
reality-providing all the information needed to understand and
appropriately recommend games to library users. Organized by game
type, hundreds of descriptions offer not only bibliographic
information (title, publication date, series, and format/platform),
but genre classifications, target age ranges for players, notes on
gameplay and user behavior type, and short descriptions of the
game's basic premise and appeals. Provides a new approach to gaming
that fills the gap in the library by introducing the idea of
gamers' advisory Contains a representative list of board games,
video games, roleplaying games, card games, and more for librarians
to consult when working with patrons or programming Discusses the
aspects of gaming collections in libraries including cataloguing,
preservation, purchasing and collection development, stack
maintenance, understanding player motivation, genre-specific
terminology and phrases, future trends (e.g., AI, AR, VR), and
other tips and tricks for maintaining a successful gaming
collection
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