Take the 2008 Library Gaming Census

It’s time for the census of 2008 library gaming programs! Did your public, academic, school, or special library run a gaming program in 2008? Did you have Chess, Scrabble, Computer games, Console games or ANY other type of gaming as a library program? Then please take the Gaming Programs in Libraries – Census of 2008 Programs. The survey will be open until May 31st. This is an annual survey done by Dr. Scott Nicholson, associate professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and is designed to develop a better understanding of how libraries supported games and gaming activities in 2008. The Library Game Lab of Syracuse has been collecting this data for the last two years, and it’s been very valuable in helping them to understand how libraries are using data. This data is useful in getting grant funding for the field and helps to demonstrate how we are taking gaming seriously. If you have questions about the survey or the research, please contact Dr. Nicholson at srnichol@syr.edu You can find publications that have come from the previous surveys on the Library Game Lab website.