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Ask the Hive Mind: How Do You Plan Game Programming?

November 14, 2022 admin GameRT, Resources

If you’re looking to start a game collection, you probably have questions. GameRT is here to help! In this blog series, once a month we’ll

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Gaming Librarian Spotlight: Lucas Maxwell

November 7, 2022 Alec Gramm Gaming Librarian Spotlight

School Librarian, Glenthorne High School, South London, UK Interviewed by Julie Hornick My name is Lucas Maxwell and I’m the librarian at Glenthorne High School

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November GameRT Events

November 3, 2022 admin Game Programs, GameRT, International Games Week

This month we have four events happening in GameRT Land! The biggest one and one of our favorites is that all month long this month

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Book Review: Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark

October 28, 2022 Alec Gramm Book Reviews, Reviews

By Liz Brown Title: Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark: A guide to summoning spirits, diving the future, and invoking the supernatural Writer: Lucia

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Gaming Librarian Spotlight: John Scalzo

October 27, 2022 Alec Gramm GameRT, Gaming Librarian Spotlight

Media Librarian, Irondequoit Public Library, Rochester, NY Interviewed by Julie Hornick Tell us about yourself. My name is John Scalzo and I am a Media

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October Spooooooooky Games

October 21, 2022 Jessica Spears Game Reviews, GameRT

All things fun/funny/spooky for you. Enjoy! Board Game: Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu • Designer: Matt Leacock, Chuck D. Yager• Publisher: Z-man Games• 2-4 players• 40-60

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Ask the Hive Mind: Where are the Pieces?

October 17, 2022 Jessica Spears GameRT, Resources

If you’re looking to start a game collection, you probably have questions. GameRT is here to help! In this blog series, once a month we’ll

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October Oct-ivities from GameRT!

October 3, 2022 admin Game Programs, GameRT, Webinars

We have three events coming up this month – our monthly board meeting, a webinar and a virtual event on Twitch! If any of these

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 A New Place to Play, Twitch & GameRT

September 22, 2022 Jessica Spears Game Programs, GameRT

By Danielle Costello Twitch has been a thrilling new venture for GameRT this Fall. We began with the idea that we’d like to offer more

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September is for…Cats!?!

September 20, 2022 Jessica Spears Game Reviews, GameRT

I was listening to some wonderful librarians talk about their favorite games, and I was struck by how many of the games they mentioned were

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