By now many will have heard of Escape Rooms, which are becoming increasingly popular across the nation. Some libraries have done an escape room of
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Category: Resources
Video game releases to watch for Holiday 2017
With a huge array of new releases for the holiday season, all competing for limited program and materials budgets, here are a few highlights for
Read morePrint and Play: Secret Hitler
Ready for International Games Week? We are getting ready by highlighting games that are available as free print and plays. This week we are highlighting
Read moreFree Video Games
It’s a golden age for free video games. Every year, thousands of games – created by individual developers or small teams – are released for
Read morePrint and Play Review: “Evolution,” North Star Games
Evolution (the print and play version is available here) is a card-based game about, well, evolution – specifically evolving species to protect themselves from predators
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Librarians report: Dungeons and Dragons in the Library
For the last year, I have been running a once a week game of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), at the Aberdeen Branch of the Harford
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Librarians report: Choosing the Right Games for Your Library
So your library has decided to acquire some games for patrons to use – YAY! That’s great, right up until you find yourself in your
Read moreTabletop RPGs – Books, Imagination and Friendship at the Library
Tabletop RPGs (think Dungeons and Dragons, the most famous of them) are a natural fit for Library programming, based as they are in books, imagination
Read moreFree and Low-Cost Tabletop RPG Options
Tabletop RPG gaming (Dungeons and Dragons usually being the default) is a perfect fit for Library programs – RPGs develop imagination as the players help
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Ontario Library Association’s Digital Odyssey 2017
The Ontario Library Association (OLA) will be hosting a one-day conference on gaming in libraries in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art and Design
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