Game collections spreading in academia

Our fearless leader Dave was recently quoted in an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, which explored the growing prevalence of game collections within academic libraries.

According to the article, some institutions have had an easier time of establishing them than others, but support and visibility for the collections are generally on the rise as people see the importance of making video games available for the growing number of people who want to research them. As Dave put it, "we have faculty who are doing stuff involved in video games, so the library needs to be doing something to support that teaching and that research."

Read the article here.

Closings and Spring/Summer Hours

The CVGA room will be closed this Friday & Saturday, April 29-30. We will re-open on Monday May 2 and begin our regular Spring/Summer hours: Mon - Fri, Noon - 7pm; closed Sat & Sun.

A Collective Effort

Do you have fond memories of working together with your friends on WoW to accomplish a great feat?

Read about a notable point in the history of WoW, when people from all over worked together, amassing an enormous list of supplies and defeating terrible enemies in a massive effort to open the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj.

See it here.