2013
The first talks for 2013 focus on games research. All of these talks are relevent to how libraries provide games as part of their services. These talks are presented by the State Library of New South Wales.
7 June Jamie Banks (Australian Eastern Standard Time) Jamie is a PhD student, and
to quote from her website her "
research focuses on how people have relationships with digital objects and environments, how technological affordances and constraints affect these relationships, and how emergent identities are influenced as a result'. You can
read her blog and
follow her on twitter.
If you are in the USA or Canada this talk will take place 6 June at 5.00pm if you are in the same time zone as Colorado.
The talk will take place in World of Warcraft. If you don't have an account you can watch the discussion via a Google+ hangout. Contact ellenforsyth @ gmail for an invite to the hangout.
Wednesday 10 July (The Right Part of the World) Tuesday 9 July (Those weird antipodeans)
BWS Johnson is a dirty rotten stinking
Library Consultant who is very excited to give a Saurfang lecture. As a recovering Duhrector, Johnson is interested in extracting practical real world knowledge from the
gaming environment.
Past talks about WoW include
Brooke's Fantasy: Towards a Graphical Intuitive Interface Derived from Gaming given at
KohaCon11
and
All I Really Needed to Know about Administration, I Learnt from Arathi Basin. This lecture will explore group dynamics, motivation, and suggest a few common points in the construction of a crosswalk from World of Warcraft to
Library Science.
The talks are held in the
Ironforge Library,
Saurfang realm, of World of Warcraft. The talks last for about 40 minutes, with time for questions and discussion at the end.
The easiest way for new players to reach this location is to start a human toon, and use the Deep Run Tram. If you have a little more time ahead of the lectures to play,
Reynârdine is happy to take you for a ride on a
Sandstone Drake from whatever starting zone you select on the Alliance to the Library in Ironforge. (Pandaren beware, this might be a phased zone.) If you have a spare hour or two, it's now a lot easier to get out of the starting zones and to a capital city then it was in Vanilla.
If you are located outside Australia and need to know when these talks occur in your local time here is a handy
time converter. Some of these talks may occur during Daylight Savings Time and the converter will need to be modified accordingly.
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