CA Library Association

 

Infopeople & CA State Library: Leading the Way to Infinity & Beyond!

I have been working the Infopeople booth (#411) at CLA this year, rotating between the Gaming Portal, Tech City Cantina, and Training Portal! Stop by to say hello if you are in the area. I did four 10-minute mini-demos this year, on Video Game Collections, Teen Behavior, Twitter, and Avatars. Slides and handouts follow! Other presentations are posted online at http://infopeople.org/cla/2008.

 

Core Videogame Collections for Youth

Slides: 

Handouts:

• Core Collections
• OK to Play? ESRB Ratings Brochure

 

Pain in the Brain: Teen Library (mis)Behavior

Slides: 

Handouts:

• The Teenage Brain
• The Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Asssets

 

R U A Twit? 

Slides:

Handout:

• Twitter

 

Face Your Manga

Slides: 

Handout:

• Avatars

NHLA Conference: Get Your Game On, and Core Collections!

Thanks to NHLA for inviting me to present not one, but TWO sessions!

Core Collections:

Slides:

Links: http://del.icio.us/informationgoddess29/nhlacore

Handout: http://informationgoddess.info/nhlacore.doc

Get Your Game On:

Slides:

Links: http://del.icio.us/informationgoddess29/nhla

Handout: http://informationgoddess.info/nhlagameon.doc

Additional gaming handouts, including the “About DDR” sheet that includes citations for two DDR studies,  are online at http://informationgoddess.info/formsfliers.html

VTLA: Take a Bite Out of Teen Read Week!

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on Teen Read Week at the VT Library Association Conference.

Links:

http://del.icio.us/informationgoddess29/trw 

Programs generated during the session:

http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Teen_Read_Week#Teen_Read_Week_08_.40_your_library

Slides are online at Slideshare:

Get Your Game On: Gaming with Teens at the Library

Thanks to everyone who attended my session at the King of Prussia (PA) Library on Videogaming with Teens at the Library!

Links:  http://del.icio.us/informationgoddess29/pa

(includes links from Lee Rush’s session on Developmental Assets)

Other tags of interest are bundled on my del.icio.us page under “King of Prussia” – scroll down and look for “King of Prussia” on the menu on the left.

Slides are posted on slideshare: