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But is it ART??
So there’s been some press recently on the concept of video games as a form of “art”. This debate was inspired by recent comments made by film critic Roger Ebert, who claims that not only are video...
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8bitlibrary around town
Hey all, wanted to share some updates with you about what our contributors are doing in libraries and beyond: Justin Hoenke was on Good Day Maine last week promoting the new Portland ME Public...
View ArticleThe 8bitlibrary.com Retro Gaming Festival
On September 11th, 2010, the East Coast’s contingent of the 8bitlibrary.com Crew will be hosting our first ever Retro Gaming Festival at the Kennedy Branch of the Piscataway NJ Public Library. While we...
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May I See Your RealID? (Part II)
As I commented in my previous post, (here) World of Warcraft’s new BattleNet RealID system allows for players to communicate with their fellow gamers all across the spectrum of “realms/servers”. All...
View ArticleRetro Gaming Day press release…
I got really excited when I got an email with an 8bitlibrary.com Retro Gaming Day press release in it! Big shouts to our own MaMcGinley & RedheadFangirl for setting this all up. Hope to see some of...
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Joystiq
Another resource for us gamin’ librarians: Joystiq - Gaming news, Reviews of games Walkthroughs to play games Podcasts Videos Screenshots From Joystiq’s About page: But don’t think that lighthearted...
View ArticleLibrarians (*will be*) taking SXSW by Storm..
…with your awesome assistance… We in the library <yawn> conference land can gain to learn from the unique panel proposal process at play over at SXSW, sure it takes some coordination and work,...
View ArticleBanned Books Week ’10 Machinima
As the video game medium grows in cultural importance, it is natural that game players will want to use these communication tools (are they REALLY games?) in creative ways. A good friend of...
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Fighting Fire with Free Speech: Protest Book Burning on 9/11
In what is emerging as a series on “why I became a librarian”, here’s my next blog post. I started out this series, not realizing at first what it would become, by talking about the ALA Office of...
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ALA Comic Book & Graphic Novel Member Initiative Group: We did it, yo.
File this under #makeithappen. We did it, yo. As you know, 8bitlibrary.com (along with Robin Brenner of noflyingnotights.com) headed up a campaign to create an ALA Comic Book & Graphic Novel Member...
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