Gaming to Develop Research Skills

Reshelving Game

Matt Bolin alerted me to the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries’ Library Arcade. Graduate students from their Entertainment Technology Center have teamed up with the University Libraries to create educational games to help students develop library research skills. They have two games so far – “I’ll Get It” in which players must help fellow students find library resources, and “Within Range”, a library re-shelving game using the LC classification system. They are still in the testing phase, but have made the games available to the public.

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3 Responses to “Gaming to Develop Research Skills”

  1. John Fudrow Says:
    January 18th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    Thanks for the mention. We really appreciate the support and the chance for other audiences to take a look at our project.

    John

  2. Paul Says:
    January 24th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    It’s great that the “Library Arcade” continues to get the coverage it deserves. Thank you for the post Sarah.

    If you are interested in more details on the development of the games, I had the chance to talk with Dan Hood who worked on the game’s development. Here’s the link: http://researchquest.blogspot.com/2008/01/since-there-has-been-some-recent-blog.html

    Congrats to all those involved for pushing forward with games & libraries.

  3. Anna Says:
    April 6th, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    I loved the library arcade, Cause it fun and very educational.

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