Author Archives: Darren Edwards

10:00-10:30 Registration 10:30-11:00 Introductions & Housekeeping 11:00-11:30 Talk Creating a board games collection for lending – Andrew Venus (Newcastle Libraries) 11:30-11:45 Coffee Break Room 1 Room 2 Room 2 11:45-12:30 Parallel Session 1 Designing accessible games collections – Michelle Goodridge (Wilfred Laurier University) Pre-Recorded Video Libopoly: A game for staff training – Cheryl Coveney (Open […]

We are pleased to announce that tickets are now available for this year’s Game Library Camp. Register for your FREE ticket at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/game-library-camp-tickets-75659937911

We are super excited to announce Michelle Goodridge (Wilfred Laurier University, Brantford, Ontario) as our final speaker. Our budget doesn’t quite stretch to flying speakers in from Canada so she will be pre-recording her talk to be shown at the event. Michelle works as a liaison librarian for Games Design and Development with an interest […]

We are currently working on putting our schedule together so that we can release tickets for you to reserve. Before we do that here is the current list of what you can expect at Game Library Camp 2019. This isn’t a complete list as there will be space for discussion sessions to be added on […]

We now have enough proposals for talks to fill all our available slots, but we still have spaces for further workshop proposals. In order to ensure we have our schedule ready for the release of tickets we are placing a deadline of 14th September on all further workshop proposals. Our submission form can be found […]

Running over the same weekend as Game Library Camp 2019 is the Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival – the UK’s largest comic art festival; a week long celebration of comics, illustration, animation and more. The main convention will be hosted at Harrogate Convention Centre with festival events in Leeds, Bradford and beyond. Some of the Game […]

We are pleased to announce the first set of topics for Game Library Camp 2019. Darren Edwards (International Games Week) – Building a structure to support gaming in UK libraries: future proofing IGW in the UK. Stella Wisdom (British Library) – I hope you like jammin’ too: Running Online Interactive Fiction Writing Jams Andrew Venus […]

Do you have ideas on the use of games in libraries that you want to share, games you want to test, questions you want to explore? We are pleased to open the call for proposals for workshops and talks at Game Library Camp 2019. We are looking for submissions relating to the intersection of games […]

We are pleased to announce the second Game Library Camp will be held at Leeds Central Library on Saturday 9th November, times to be confirmed. The event is a collaboration between Darren Edwards (UK Coordinator for ALA International Games Week), CILIP PMLG, & Leeds Libraries. The event is FREE but will be ticketed via the […]