Jolli_Da_awesome Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Hola, I just want everyone to know that National Gaming @ Your Library Day is November 14th this year. So... if you are interested in sharing your great table top hobby, i recommend contacting your local library and seeing if you can book their meeting room and have them create a program around a type of gaming. At the library I work at, I have been given the go ahead to demonstrate table top games, set up video gaming programs, provide board & card games for customers to play throughout the day, and just generally showcase how great being a geek can be. Heck, I bet if you asked nicely, some libraries might even be willing to let you host a tournament in their meeting room if you book it ahead of time. However it goes, just try to get into a library on the 14th of November to show off some kind of great gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterdita Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Libraries....Not just for kids anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dboeren Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Now if only someone would go to the library to see it... It really sounds like a nice idea, but I just have very low confidence that you will get many visitors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterdita Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Libraries are one of those things where it depends where you live. The libraries here in Portland are busy as hell all the time. It's great to see tax dollars actually taken advantage of in a positive way. Good luck with the demo Jolli! hope to see some pics and of course lots of Wyrd minis in play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolli_Da_awesome Posted October 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 (edited) I'll try to snag some pics (have to be careful of what I would post though, since I can't post pictures of minors at library events without parental permission). Last year my branch had over 80 tweens (ages 7-11) and teens come to our events (that I put together at the last minute without much advertising). So it went insanely well considering our highly advertised mega events normally only drawn in about 50 kids and teens. Most of them do come for the video games, but it's easy to get them to try the table top stuff once they are here. I really do recommend contacting your local library and seeing if they'd let you demo stuff, or set up an event. I know that not all libraries do the kind of stuff we do here at mine, but letting them know that you are interested in them participating in this national event could help stoke them some. And yes, it also does depend on which library you are talking about as to if this would work or not. I know here, we have several dozen teens that basically live here, so getting their interests and participation is very simple. Actually, the part that kind of saddens me is when I put on a teen event, and someone who just turned 19 comes in and I have to turn them away (our official cut off to be considered a 'teen' is 18). I actually have two kids that are about to turn 19, and they keep trying to get me to change the rule.. which I can't since it's a system wide thing. However, I'm now working on trying to get better adult programs going. :-D Edited October 1, 2009 by Jolli_Da_awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargathor Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Libraries are one of those things where it depends where you live. The libraries here in Portland are busy as hell all the time. QFT. My local branch here in Madison has a swinging anime club and every weeknight is poppin' with kids doing homework. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kloudfire Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 Labraries are the hot bed for nerdity around the country! Yah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandu Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Libraries are the hot bed for nerdity around the country! Yah! Hey! I represent that comment. Uhmm.. waitaminute.... nevermind. Brandu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBugKing Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 This sounds great! My wife runs a local library here. I'll have to get her to talk to some of her contemporaries (Her library is too small to do this sort of thing unfortunately, but she may run some board games) who are in larger libraries to get something going. Very cool! Joli, is there a website I can point them all to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomes70 Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 I'm a librarian as well, and I just found out we were going to hold this in our system. http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/?s=national+gaming+day. YALSA is the Young Adult department of the American Library Assocoiation. This link has some more informationon National Gaming Day and getting it started. http://www.ilovelibraries.org/gaming/ Here's one of the links from that page with more info on what it is and how it's handled. A video included. Hope as many libraries as possible can spread the love of games! Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capcap Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 This is a great idea. I'm going to see if our local Library will let us do something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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