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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.

About the talks
The talks take place using guild chat. You need an Alliance toon (have a look at the slideshow for some hints). You can join the guild Where is the library, just prior to the talk. Whisper Franticread for an invite - this toon will be online an hour before the seminar. For further information about this please contact ellenforsyth @ gmail[dot]com

If you are blogging, tweeting, posting to Flickr... please use #rugame (note this tag will be used for all the occasional talks). Thank you for spreading the word!

Transcripts of the talks are available.

Emotes and moving
If you would like a reminder about emotes you can use during these sessions there are some hints here, plus here are some hints about moving around (for the newer players) and some other hints as well.



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Please suggest people for the occasional (about monthly) talks in WoW.

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