Making the Case for Gaming at your Library

• ALA Press Release on gaming at libraries (4/9/08)
• Nintendo Wii's cross-generational appeal: Gaming for everyone, including seniors!

• Pew Internet and American Life research on gaming
• New Media Literacies
• Gaming Advocacy from SLJ gaming advocacy.pdf
• The Brain Workout
• Research on Gaming and the Elderly
• Your Brain on Video Games: Could They Actually be Good for You?
• Nielson Report Highlighting Increased Use of Gaming
• Gaming Program HUGE in Columbus, OH
• Library Adds Media Literacy, Including Games, to List of Offering (Chicago Sun Times article about Chicago Heights Library)
• NYTimes article from The Future of Reading series: Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers
• Survey: Nearly Every Kid a Video Gamer (Post Gazette)
• Can Games Make Your Kid a Better Citizen (MSN)
• Pew Internet: Teens, Video Games and Civics: Teens Gaming Experiences are Diverse and Include Significant Social Interaction and Civic Engagement
• How Video Games are Good for the Brain (Boston Globe)