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    Hey Games and Gaming Roundtable members! It’s voting season once more, and we have some exciting candidates on the ballot

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    Hey Games and Gaming Roundtable members! It’s voting season once more, and we have some exciting candidates on the ballot

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Games In Libraries

Top 10 Games Based on Books!

April 15, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT, Games

By Jenn Bartlett President Jenn Bartlett has another awesome video for you, with her top 10 tabletop games based on books!

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Literary Video Games, Part Two

April 13, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT, Games

By Thomas Vose In the previous article in this series, we looked at games based on books from earliest written history up until the 16th

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Literary Video Games, Part One

April 6, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT, Games

By Thomas Vose Video games based on books are nothing new, and several big-name titles have literary inspirations. The Witcher games, enjoying a surge of

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Confessions of an RPG Nerd

February 10, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT

By Christine Martin-Resotko So, not all your players are theater nerds…. I polled the community on the Facebook group to see what questions folks had,

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GameRT President’s Program

February 3, 2020 Thomas Vose Conferences, GameRT

On behalf of the Games & Gaming Round Table (GameRT) of the American Library Association (ALA), the Program Planning Committee is sponsoring a call for presentation proposals

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GameRT Announces a New Grant Opportunity!

January 2, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT, Resources

CHICAGO – The Games and Gaming Round Table of the American Library Association is proud to unveil a new annual grant program to enable libraries

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Looking for your reviews!

December 23, 2019 Thomas Vose GameRT

Are you going to be receiving some new games this holiday season? Planning to play with the family? We’d like to know what you think

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International Games Week 2019 Wrap-Up

December 20, 2019 Alfred Wallace GameRT

Another terrific International Games Week is in the books! This year, we hit an all-time high for International Games Week registrations, with over 1900 libraries

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Pathfinder and Roleplaying Games at the Library

December 19, 2019 Thomas Vose GameRT

By Jacob Dotson What Is Pathfinder? Pathfinder is a D20 Roleplaying Game system published by Paizo, descended from the original Dungeons and Dragons. By D20,

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President’s Reviews: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

December 10, 2019 Thomas Vose GameRT

GameRT President Jenn Bartlett covers another great literature-themed game, this one dealing with the Napoleonic magic found in Susanna Clarke’s book Jonathan Strange and Mr.

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