Hello All, Anyone going to ALA Annual? Here are lots of opportunities to get your game on! I hope to see you at ALA Play on Friday night, it's even bigger than last year. If anyone is interested in forming a California team for Mysterious Library Box, let me know. Cheers, Teresa -------------------------------------- Teresa Slobuski Research Services Coordinator San Jose State University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0028 408-808-2318 Teresa.Slobuski@sjsu.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian Mayer, GameRT President <gamert@ala.org> Date: Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 1:15 PM Subject: Join us at #ALAAC17! To: teresa.slobuski@sjsu.edu The Games and Gaming Round Table is proud to present several fantastic events and initiatives happen at this year's annual conference in Chicago. *ALAPlay <http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NjYwNjYyJnA9MSZ1PTEwMjExMTU4NDYmbGk9NDQ5MDQ0NzE/index.html>* Join the Games and Gaming Round Table for an evening of exploration, play and making. This year's event is not to be missed. Check out the flyer here. <http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NjYwNjYyJnA9MSZ1PTEwMjExMTU4NDYmbGk9NDQ5MDQ0NzI/index.html> - A Maker and STEM Playground with 20 tables of resources and activities including: - Sphero, Dash and Dot, Chibitronics, Ozobot, AR/VR Gear, littleBits, LightUp, Twenty One Toys, Osmo, Rokenbok Education, Squishy Circuits, Brown Dog Gadgets, SAM Labs Modular Robotics, Hopscotch, Terrapin, Primo Toys, Little Robot Friends, 3Doodler, Robo 3D, Inventables, ABC Mouse - Rosen Publishing will feature their collection of STEM, Maker and Gaming books and resources - Game publisher demos from Paizo, Asmodee, Northstar Games, SET, HABA, Konami, Renegade Games, Gigamic, Arc Dream and more. - Open gaming run by Peach Hobby Distribution and ACD Distribution. - Drop In RPG Game with Paizo and Arc Dream. - Paint and Take - learn to paint a miniature courtesy of Ninja Division and PHD Games - GIANT Bloxels Video Game Design Challenge - Learn to play Magic the Gathering with drop in league play with a chance to win prizes - An escape room experience crafted by Breakout EDU *The Mysterious Library Box *- Signups are now available. <http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NjYwNjYyJnA9MSZ1PTEwMjExMTU4NDYmbGk9NDQ5MDQ0NzM/index.html> Join the Breakout EDU and GameRT for an escape room experience on the exhibit floor. The year is 2050 and the pace of change in education has been paralyzingly slow. While at a dinner with your fellow educators you learned about a legend that a visionary librarian locked the key for an education revolution inside a mystery box more than 30 years ago. You and your colleagues decide that it’s finally time for something different. Can you and your team solve the mystery and unlock the key to transforming education? This event is limited to 10 participants per session with advanced signup. *GameRT Sharing Session: * Come wander the Gaming Lounge and learn about amazing gaming programs from libraries across the country in this one hour informal sharing session. Topics include: - Designing escape rooms for you library space - Teen Driven Gaming Programming - Enhancing Discovery of Tabletop Games - and more... *Keywords to Mastery Game: An active learning approach to discover research topics* <http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NjYwNjYyJnA9MSZ1PTEwMjExMTU4NDYmbGk9NDQ5MDQ0NzQ/index.html> : A fun and interactive hands-on workshop where you build and play your own low-tech game that helps students gain keyword and natural language processing skills for database searching. Choose a research topic, identify keywords on card decks, and recruit 2-6 players for a collaborative way to construct your research topic. Keywords to Mastery game is specifically designed to challenge and engage players with fast paced rounds of gameplay that can easily fit within library instruction session time constraints. Build your own game, play it, and see how it boosts keyword natural language processing skills within this 50 minute workshop. *GameRT Board Meeting*: <http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NjYwNjYyJnA9MSZ1PTEwMjExMTU4NDYmbGk9NDQ5MDQ0NzU/index.html> Join us to help shape the future of the Games and Gaming Round Table (GameRT). *Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game:* <http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NjYwNjYyJnA9MSZ1PTEwMjExMTU4NDYmbGk9NDQ5MDQ0NzY/index.html> Learn about best practices for providing access to unique collections which otherwise may be invisible to your library users. We will discuss our use of standards, discovery layers, facets, controlled vocabularies, and genre terms to meet users’ needs when cataloging a large collection of tabletop games. 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