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- 1 Upcoming Events
- 2 Past Events
- 3 Success Stories
- 4 Resources:
- 5 Core Collection
- 6 Tips N Tricks
- 7 Blogs/Websites to Watch
- 8 Specific Blog Posts/Articles to Check Out
- 9 Libraries Hosting Gaming
- 10 Wii Libraries
- 11 Libraries Circulating Games
- 12 Digital Projector Compatibility
Upcoming Events
- Library Runescape Teams Central Kansas Library System wants to create Library Runescape Teams [as posted to YALSA listserv] Ultimately, teams' webpaged would be linked in del.icio.us
- January 2, 3, & 4, 2007 1:00-3:00 PM: DDR & MarioKart @ Lansing Public Library, Lansing (IL)
- January 4, 2007 6:00-7:30 PM: DDR @ Choctaw Library, Choctaw (OK)
- January 13, 2007 12:00-4:00 PM: DDR, MarioKart, Super Smash Brothers, and more @ Southern Oaks Library, Oklahoma City (OK)
- January 19, 2007 5-8 PM: BN Gamefest free @ Miller Park Pavilion, Bloomington, (IL)
- January 20, 2007 1:30p-3:30p: YALSA Teen Gaming Discussion Group meeting, W Hotel Seattle, 1112 4th Ave., Studio 8. Also via Skype (informationgoddess29 or kellyc411) and Second Life Open Air Auditorium (126, 81, 33)
- February 16, 2007 7:00-9:00 PM: DDR and more @ Edmond Library, Edmond (OK)
Past Events
- November 3, 2006 5:00-8:00 PM: BNGamefest @ Normal Public Library, Normal (IL)
- October 26, 2006 6:00-7:30 PM: DDR @ Choctaw Library, Metropolitan Library System (OK)
- October 21, 2006 7:00-10:00 PM: DDR, Guitar Hero, Vintage Games @ University of Illinois Undergraduate Library
- October 19, 2006 4:30-6:00 PM: DDR @ Village Library, Metropolitan Library System (OK)
- October 13, 2006 7:00-8:30 PM: DDR @ Edmond Library, Metropolitan Library System (OK)
- October 12, 2006 5:00-6:30 PM: DDR @ Southern Oaks Library, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City (OK)
- October 9, 2006 2:00-5:00 PM: DDR, Mario Kart & mystery Game @ Westmont Public Library Westmont (IL) ( All rated E )
- October 8, 2006 4:00-5:30 PM: DDR @ RJN Downtown Library, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City (OK)
- June 13, 2006-August 2, 2006: Soul Calibur II Tournament for teens @ the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, NC
- June 24,2006: Runescape Day @ "McCracken County Public Library
- July 6, 2006 6:30-8:30 PM: DDR/Karaoke Revolution/Guitar Hero Program @ Agawam (MA) Public Library
- July 10, 2006 4p-6pm EST: Xbox Gaming Club @ the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, NC
- July 12, 2006 6:30-8:30 PM: DDR/Karaoke Revolution/Guitar Hero Program@ Stoneham (MA) Public Library
- July 14, 2006 7:00-9:00 PM: Karaoke Revolution 3 @ Morse Institute Library, Natick (MA)
- July 14, 2006 5:00-8:00 PM: DDR/Guitar Hero/Mario Kart Tournaments @ Bloomington Public Library, Bloomington (IL)
- July 25, 2006 2:00-4:30 PM: DDR/Karaoke Revolution/Guitar Hero Program @Wakefield (MA) Public Library
- July 25, 2006 2:00-4:00pm EST: DDR Tournament @ the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, NC
- August 4, 2006 7:00-9:00 PM: Guitar Hero @ Morse Institute Library, Natick (MA)
- August 10, 2006 6:00-8:30 PM: DDR/Karaoke Revolution/Guitar Hero Program @ Haverhill (MA) Public library
- August 11, 2006 7:00-9:00 PM: DDR/Karaoke Revolution/Guitar Hero Program @ Greenfield (MA) Public Library
- August 14, 2006 6:30 - 8:30 PM: Are You Game? DDR/Gamecube/PS2 @ Orange County Library System @ Herndon Branch
- August 24, 2006 6:30-8:30 PM: DDR/Karaoke Revolution/Guitar Hero Program @ Wayland (MA) Public Library
- August 25, 2006 7:00-9:00 PM: DDR @ Morse Institute Library, Natick (MA)
- September 6, 2006 2:00-5:00 PM: DDR, Mario Kart & mystery Game @ Westmont Public Library Westmont (IL) ( All rated E )
- Lansing Public Library's Teen Events Page Lansing, Illinois' Next Gaming Event: May 20, 2006 10 a.m-3 p.m. Family event for all ages! Come see gaming in action! Librarians welcome!
- Westmont Public Library hosts Game Night featuring Mario Kart Double Dash, Dance Dance Revolution, & Lego Star Wars. ( All rated E )
- Bloomington Public Library Calling all gamers in grades 6-12 the next Game Fest is coming, Saturday, May 13 to Old Town Township Hall, from 1-4 pm. We are playing DDR (as always), Mario Kart, Guitar Hero and more. If you have never been to Game Fest, make this one your first. Register here, today.
- DDR Tournament and Open House The University of Illinois Undergraduate Library is hosting an open gaming night Saturday, April 29th from 7-10pm. There will be a DDR tournament, several other consoles set up, and a display featuring our new video game collection. More info at the link above.
- Dueler's Guild The Bloomingdale Public Libray hosts a Collectible Card Games event the first Tuesday of the month at 5:30 pm and the third Sunday of every month at 1:00 pm. for players age 9 and up. Supported games are Magic: the Gathering, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Contact Melissa Willer or Bill Forgette for more information.
Success Stories
Lake City Community College, Lake City, Florida
Gaming Event in the Lake City Community College Library April 14, 2006 5PM-11PM
Seventy gamers that included high school and community college students, parents, local newspaper editor, business people from gaming stores and faculty attended this most successful event. Coordinator Vickie Lepore (reference librarian) attributes the success to the team of seven students and three adults who worked the event. There were two 52" monitors, plus 12 other monitors for Madden, Crimson Skies, Halo, DDR and Project Gotham XBox tournaments. The Anime club brought their own games. People checked out our collection of 35 PC games that were purchased through the community college's Foundation grant, and played on our newly acquired gaming computers. Audio-visual hired a DJ; the library hired Ken Schirrmacher from the Technology Department, who is also a Halo champ and ran several of the tournaments. Student Activities offered free food, and we had very generous sponsors that sent us schwag for our tournament winners and drawings: NVidia, Bawls (energy drinks), Alienware, CaseAce, FunCom, and Aspyr. For a more detailed account, visit the library's blogsite at <http://lcccpopculture.blogspot.com> We discovered that our old library facility is perfectly designed for gaming events, and we are already planning our next event for the summer 2006!
The success of a program is not limited to planning and coordinating. Many possibilities for future gaming events were presented at the Tech Summit for gaming at MLS in the suburban Chicago library system during 2005. The key to making them happen for the Matteson Public Library became the issue of funding. The materials list that we were presented with at the Tech Summit became a tool to both help make our technical decisions and to seek help with financing. This information was passed on to the Youth Services Manager, Judith Vostal and Director, Kathy Berggren. The list was then presented to the local Sam's Club. Sam's Club has in the past been a contributor to the library. They made a generous decision to contribute a $1000.00 grant to offset our start-up costs for our gaming program. The new equipment made it possible to implement the program concepts and bring gaming to the Youth Services Department in the Matteson Public Library.
Saturday Game Days at Clinton Public Library, Clinton, Oklahoma
Clinton Public Library is a medium sized library. Some would consider it small. This is a program that can be made to work in a library of almost any size. Of course larger libraries can do it more grandly, but I hope that people will realize that they can have cool gaming programs in their library without big bucks.
The week before the Super Bowl in February 2006, we hosted a Madden 2006 tournament. We had two age brackets to accomadate different skill levels. Connecting my personal X-box and game to a TV in the meeting room, we allowed players to compete while they enjoyed snacks that we had provided. Our room was full. Over forty people attended or participated, and afterward begged us to offer this program again soon. We learned several things from this initial experience, thanks in part to some of the mistakes we had made. The biggest mistake we made was not realizing that the games would take too long. We had overestimated our ability to get everyone adequate playing time, and as a result had to rush things along. A decent game takes a full half-hour. Encouraged by our success we decided to run the program again.
The next month we held an NCAA March Madness tournament, this time borrowing a Play Station 2 and the game from library employees. We split the tournament into two smaller ones based on age groups and held the tournament on two different evenings. The attendance of the tournament for younger people was high, but almost no one showed up for the older tournament. We looked into the causes of this and found that weeknights were a poor time to schedule these tournaments.
Recognizing this as a great way to draw in youth, especially male youth, we have decided to build the program up and add more to it, in order to attract a wider audience. We are beginning to host two Saturday game days a month. We have invested about $60 in board games which we leave on the tables. Part of these board games we bought used, but most are new. The first game day of each month we hold a video game tournament, which varies from month to month. On the second game day of each month we will host a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament. We have yet to host our initial Yu-Gi-Oh tournament, but the sign-up sheet we provided is filling very quickly.
We just held the first of these game days. We borrowed a staff member's PS2 and one of our teenagers loaned us FIFA Soccer. Our attendance was high, and the youth enjoyed the entertainment we provided. We hope that some day the board games will one day serve as a program of their own, but right now we seem to be building good support by simply hosting the board games simultaneously with the video game. When the video gamers are not playing, they enjoy playing uno, scrabble, checkers, chess, battleship, and more.
Here is the part you really want to know. Below are the fundamental keys to making a similar program work in any library.
1) Find out what the youth want to play. Involving them will increase their ownership of the program.
2) Don't worry about buying everything. If you can supply the TV, borrow the rest. I recommend borrowing the gaming console from a staff member if possible. They are less likely to hold you responsible if the machine suddenly stops working. But go ahead and feel free to ask teens to donate the use of their games, giving them a reward of some kind (food is the best reward for youth)
3) If at all possible, get a mature teenager who is familiar with these kinds of things to monitor. I know nothing of Yu-Gi-Oh, but we have recruited about four teenagers to help us out. This is a great opportunity to work with the school library's literary group! You do not have to do it all yourself.
4) Require advanced registration. Get their names and phone numbers, and then make a bracket out. You can download free tournament brackets at www.darters.com . Schedule players in the bracket and then notify them of what time their first game is set.
5) Leave room for alternate players. Is some one cancels or is late, don't dally. Go directly to an alternate who is their and ready to play.
6) A prize is not always necessary. Males ( who will be your primary audience in the video game and Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments) enjoy bragging rights above all else. A simple trinket or certificate will make their day.
7) Remember that this is fun.
8) Don't worry about whether the participants are checking anything out. Just make sure the resources are available. They will eventually grow curious.
9) Find the day that works best for your audience, wheter it be an evening or a weekend.
10) Requiring a library card is no problem, especially for the video game tournament. Teenagers will be begging their guardian to get them a library card.
This can be a low cost program. Use volunteers. If you want to provide refreshments, talk to your friends group or local businesses. They are often eager to help out with youth programming. The only true rule to how much you spend is that the bigger your library, the more elaborate and professional you must make it appear.
Beck, John C and Mitchell Wade. Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever. Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
Cassell, Justine and Henry Jenkins. From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. MIT Press, 1998.
Gee, James Paul. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Palgrave McMillan, 2003.
Johnson, Steven. Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today's Pop Culture is Making Us Smarter. Riverhead, 2005.
Prensky, Marc. Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning. Paragon House, 2006.
Journal Articles
Levine, Jenny. "Gaming and Libraries: Intersection of Services Library Technology Reports (ALA TechSource) Sep/Oct 2006, vol. 42, n. 5.
4Librarians A companion website developed for a Michigan Library Association presentation
Education Arcade Partnership between MIT and University of Madison WI investigating educational games
Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Organization responsible for video game ratings, regulation and more.
Game Professor Good collection of resources related to video games research, conferences, academic papers, etc.
Escapist Magazine Weekly online magazine covers industry issues and news with a personalized spin
Gaming Learning and Society Annual symposium associated with the University of Wisconsin Madison
Game Research A collection of professional research related to gaming]
Innovate Journal of Online Learning Regularly features articles about games in education
MLS Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Conference Conference Website - go here to register!
OpenContent Wiki This wiki was started by game researchers to help educators find information about using games in the classroom.
Pew Internet and American Life Project Many studies realate to teens, technology and gaming
Core Collection
Schwartzwalder, Jami. Mario Brothers Memorial Public Library: Game List
Schultz, Jack. Westmont Public Library: Game List
Tips N Tricks
- DDR Settings: How do you avoid having to reset the game.. going through the steps of selecting "game mode", 2 players, and choosing characters. Eli says: You're looking for event mode. Go into options, then game options, and turn event mode on. That ought to do it. We also usually set game over to 'end of music' to keep really bad players from the shame of failing in the middle of the song.
- If possible, using a projector screen for console play really gives that 'wow' feeling that most players don't get at home, and is useful for multi-player FPS matches that can look really small on TVs.
- If using a projector for fighting games such as Smash Bros. Melee or Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, make sure to test your projector for lag. Certain projectors may leave a bit of a trail when characters start to move fast, which can really hurt frame watchers and other highly skilled gamers. If possible, split the video feed between both the projector and a TV, so that the gamers participating can use the TV, and spectators can view the match on the projection screen.
- To find tips and walkthroughs for your patrons try Gamespot.com
Blogs/Websites to Watch
- Game On: Games in Libraries by Beth Gallaway and Jami Schwarzwalder, Kelly Czarnecki, John Scalzo, Chad Haefele and Matt Gullett.
- LibGaming Group
- Ann Arbor District Library (AADL). AXIS AADL Blog. July 6, 2005.
Blog for AADL, which publicizes and tracks their video game tournaments for adults, teens and children.
Site/blog for BPL (in Illinois) which promotes their quarterly Game Fests for teens.
- Gaming in Libraries Photos. Flickr group of photos tagged gaminginlibraries
- Animeted.org. Website featuring reviews by and for teens, and forums for teens with news and reviews by teens on Video Games, Anime and Graphic Novels.
- MBMPL. Website featuring Wii reviews and a collection policy for video gaming.
Specific Blog Posts/Articles to Check Out
Levine, Jenny. "Gaming and Libraries: Intersection of Services" Library Technology Reports (ALA TechSource) Sep/Oct 2006, vol. 42, n. 5.
Scalzo, John. "The Video Game Librarian: Year 2006 in Review". Gaming Target, January 29, 2007.
- Book review of gaming-related titles for library purchase
Scalzo, John. The Video Game Librarian: Book 'Em". Gaming Target, July 20, 2005.
- Book review of gaming-related titles for library purchase
Sutton, Lynn and Giz Womack. Got game?: Hosting game night in an academic library. College and Research Libraries News, March 2006.
- A success story about hosting game nights at Wake Forest University.
- Giz Womack also gave a presentation about Wake Forest's game nights at the Computers in Libraries 2006 conference. His PowerPoint presentation is available here.
Van Eck, Richard. Digital Game-based Learing: It's Not Just the Digitial Natives that Are Restless. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 16–30.
- Author outlines "why DGBL is effective and engaging, how we can leverage those principles to implement DGBL, how faculty can integrate commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) DGBL in the classroom, what DGBL means for institutional IT support, and the lessons we can learn from past attempts at technological innovations in learning."
- Available as html or PDF.
Libraries Hosting Gaming
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of Gaming: Monthly videogame tournament weekends for various age groups
Games: Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros., DDR, Karaoke Revolution, Pokemon, Retro Gaming, Guitar Hero, Monkey Ball, etc.
Contact: Eli Neiburger
Type: public
Size of library: small
Types of gaming: monthly board gaming group for junior high through adult
Games: Acquire, Puerto Rico, Transamerica, East Front, Victory in the Pacific, San Juan, Settlers of Catan, Aladdin's Dragons, Ingenious, Cartagena, Power Grid, Ra, Medici, Samurai, Guillotine, Union Pacific, Axis & Allies
Contact: Shaynie Klein
Type: public
Size of library: small
Types of gaming: Collectible card games; chess club; starting a strategy gaming club in May 2006
Games: Dueler's Guild, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic; will start D&D, Risk, and Settlers of Catan for the strategy gaming club; about 20 various board games; DDR on PlayStation 2; Mario Kart on GameCube
Contact: Melissa Willer
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: quarterly play and Game Fests in Library and community at large
Games: DDR tournament; Other console games like Guitar Hero, Mario Kart, Dead or Alive, NFS; Come for the company, stay for the Karaoke, board games (Monopoly, Chess, Clue) and puzzles like life-size Sudoku
Photos available at Flickr
Contact: John Fischer
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: starting this spring, we're starting by hosting some X-Box LAN parties after hours on Friday nights
Games: first one will be Halo on X-Box
Contact: Cindy Moriarity
Type: public
Size of library: large
Types of gaming: Weekly video gaming night (Xbox, games & snacks provided), Tekko (anime/gaming convention hosted at library), weekly Dungeons & Dragons campaign, weekly Dance Dance Revolution night
Contact: Carnegie reference desk
Type: school
Size of library: large
Types of gaming: not sure yet; we are hoping to host a gaming event, maybe in conjunction with National Library Week
Contact: Mindy Null
Type: public
Size of library: small
Types of gaming: tournaments and open play
Games: DDR, Mario Kart, Super Smash Brothers on GameCube; Unreal Tournament 2K4 LAN party on library PCs
Contact: Eric Currie
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: Carvers Bay High School Gaming Club and open play
Games: Current popular XBOX-360 and PC titles
Contact: Truman Winns
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: every fourth Saturday, we have Game Day where the kids play board games and card games
Games: bingo, Uno, Connect Four, puzzles, checkers
Contact: Kelley Nichols
Type: public
Size of library: large
Types of gaming: Weekly Magic: the Gathering events, Video Gaming
Games: ESRB E - T, Guitar Hero II, Dance Dance Revolution Supernova, Sing Star Karaoke
Contact: Trevor Oakley
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of Gaming: Monthly videogame days for various age groups
Games: Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros., DDR, Guitar Hero, Monkey Ball and other games upon request.
Contact: Megan Johnson
Type: public
Size of library: large
Types of gaming: Currently trying to organize a group of Runescape players for regular events.
Games: Runescape. Some interest has been expressed in console games and RPGs.
Contact: Karl Siewert
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: open sessions and tournaments.
Games: DDR on playstation Contact: Alexandra Tyle
Type: public
Size of library: small
Types of gaming: game afternoons with video games, online games, and board games
Games: DDR; Mario Kart; Karaoke Revolution 3; Runescape and other online games; board games (Connect Four, Scrabble, etc.)
Teen Interviews from gaming event--hear how they liked it, and what games they want!
Contact: Kelli Staley (IT) and Gail Guzman (Youth & Teen Librarian)
Type: academic
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: still in the planning stage
Contact: Susan Wardzala
Type: public
Size of library: large
Types of gaming: open play (DDR) and open LAN parties; after hours open internet play
Games: DDR; internet games; CD-ROMs
Contact: Cynthia Maxwell and Julia Driscoll
Type: public
Size of library: small
Types of gaming: online access; kids download video games - we usually do not put them off; they seem to know tons of resources
Games: whatever the internet offers
Contact: Victor Dixon
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: Young Adult Media Bar with 6 PS2s; LAN Parties daily on 4 dedicated PCs; online gaming in Teen Tech Lab; board and card games
Games: YAM Bar offers 20 PS2 titles rated E for Everyone; Battlefield 1942, Battlefield Vietnam, Rise of Nations are regular choices for LAN; Runescape online; Heroscape Table
Contact: Iris S. Garrott
Type: public
Size of library: large
Types of gaming: game nights - started in February 2006
Games: DDR on PlayStation; board and card games
Contact: Tom Kochinski
Type: Association
Size of library: small-medium
Types of gaming: Scrabble, chess, Yu-Gi-Oh. Coming soon - DDR, euchre, console games.
Contact: Patty Uttaro
Type: public
Size of library: large
Types of gaming: DDR for teens, console games, game nights for teens, trying senior gaming this summer.
Games: Circulating PS2 and XBox games in the collection, DDR for PS2.
Contact: Sheri Chambers
Type: public
Size of library: large
Types of gaming: DDR tournaments (for teens - trying families this summer); chess program for all ages; we also have public access computers that we use frequently for online gaming; certain computers have CD-ROM games pre-loaded (very popular with preschoolers); board game nights in the summer for teens (trying for younger this summer)
Games: DDR; chess; karaoke; board games
Contact: Kelly Laszczak
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: boardgame afternoons and video game days
Games: Gamecube, Playstation 2, XBox and XBox 360 video games for checkout, Mario Kart Double Dash and DDR tournaments beginning in August 2006, CD-ROM games pre-loaded on Youth Services Department public computers
Contact: Brian Vagt
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: drop-in after school program one or two days a week if staff available to mintor room
Games: Nascar; Spiderman; WWF Wrestling; various PlayStation games
Contact: [mailto: firstname.lastname@example.com Magan Szwarek]
Type: public
Size of library: small
Types of gaming: computer gaming; held one open play day so far
Games: letting kids play Runescape on library computers; DDR for Playstation 2 and Mario Kart for GameCube during open play; own X-Box systems but haven't used them yet
Contact: Dayna Tucker
Type: public
Size of library: supersize
Types of gaming: open play (nights); computer games in teen area; starting to circulate games; starting a 'Teen Gamers Group' in Fall 2006; game days with LAN parties; will start podcasting reviews in January 2007
Games: Sims 2, Madden, Tony Hawk, Midtown Madness, Life, and Monopoly on computers; DDR and Karaoke DDR; using Playstation 2 and X-Box systems
Contact: Amy Alessio or Amy Peterson
Type: public
Size of library: medium to large
Types of gaming:
Main Branch:
- Console game open plays and tournaments every 2nd and 4th Saturday (Spring Season), 1st and 3rd Satuday (Fall Season).
- Tournaments: Mario Kart: Double Dash, Smash Melee Singles and Doubles, DDR (Perfect Attack Style), and Pokemon Battles.
- Gamecube games: Mario Kart: Double Dash, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Pokemon XD with GCN > GBA connectors
- GameBoy DS games: Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing, Tetris
- PS2 games: DDR Max 1 and 2, Extreme 1 and 2
- Card games: Yu-gi-oh!
Other Branches:
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Computer LAN compatible games
- Yu-gi-oh!
Contact: Marianne Kruppa or Pedro Galicia
Type: public
Size of library: small
Types of gaming: board games, mostly for youth; card games for the monthly senior meetings
Games: for youth, bingo, Chutes & Ladders, Candyland, Uno, checkers (Chinese and American), puzzles, and whatever is on the computer; Connect Four; for seniors, bingo, PoKeNo, Big, Whist, Spade; on the computer, Solitaire, Bejeweled, etc.; Monopoly
Contact: Loretta Burgest
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: plan to offer a game day program in Fall 2006
Gaming: probably Euro games like Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne; plus open gaming; would also like to do some easy, fun group card games like Apples to Apples and Bang
Contact: Tom Sievers
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: console video games and board game days
Games: all board games (including Candyland and Risk); DDR; Mario Kart Double Dash; Lego Star Wars; we are planning a D&D program for summer read & a Magic the Gather card game event.
Contact: Jack Schultz
Types of gaming: Mario Kart Tournament at Con. Entrance requires library Card
Contact:Jami Schwarzwalder
Type: public
Size of library: medium
Types of gaming: tournaments and open play
Games: DDR, Mario Kart, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Superstar Baseball on GameCube
Contact: Scott Duimstra
Type: public-for kids and teens
Size of library: super duper size
Types of gaming: console video games, tournaments, open play, and board games
Games: DDR, RuneScape, Retro games (Space Invaders, PacMan, Asteroids, Tetris, Simon and Donkey Kong), Guitar Hero, Burnout, Madden 2005, various board games-checkers, chess, Twister, Scrabble, etc. The list keeps growing.
Contact: Kelly Czarnecki
Type: Public
Size of library: small
Types of gaming: Tournaments, open play, board games, regularly scheduled young adult programming
Games: Halo, Halo 2
Contact: Valerie Jensen
Size of Library: Medium
Type of Gaming: Teen Game Nights once a month in four locations. 2 PS2 and 2 XBox consoles and 2 DDR Mats (soon to be 4) are featured.
Games: All E and T, except for Halo 2
Contact:Andrew Cherbas
Size of Library: Medium
Type of Gaming: We had our first Teen GameFest in July 2006. The library purchased both a PS2 and a GameCube console and 2 DDR Mats. It was very successful with approximately 30 teens participating. We plan to do it again in October, and perhaps have them quarterly if not more often.
Games: DDR Extreme 2, Mario Kart Double Dash, Super Smash Brothers, and lots of board games, including Life, Monopoly, Fact or Crap, Chess, playing cards, etc.
Contact:Jessica Marie
Size of Library: Medium
Type of Gaming:
- The Juvenile Section has 7 old computers running several dozen games and educational software that get almost constant use. We also have many more kids games and software for circulation. (makes the older gamers jealous.)
- Teen After School Gaming twice a month. Currently using employee's xbox and PS2 hooked up to projectors in the program room.
- A new computer in the YA section loaded with donated and free games.
- For the little ones we have a ton; The Magic School Bus collection, Super Duper Music Looper, and the classic Oregon Trail to mention a few. We even have games En Espaniol.
- For the console after school program, no M games, then whatever the players bring in from home. Current big hits include; Tekken Tag, Magic: Battlegrounds, StarWars Battlefront II, (no library investment... yet...)
- As for computer games; AOE II, CIV III, Riven, Risk II, and a bunch of free downloads like Scorched Earth 3D.
Contact: Dan LeRoy
Wii Libraries
Benicia Public Library California
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Escondido Public Library (lends out Wii Games) California Lafayette Public Library System Louisiana
The Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County North Carolina
Rochester Hills Public Library (lends out Wii Games) Michigan
Ada Community Library (lends out Wii Games) Idaho
Blog posts:
Nintendo Wii at Your Library Alternative Teen Services
Librarian miis Timothy Grieg
First Wii impressions Silversprite
ReviewThe Rock and Roll Librarian
The New York Times How the Wii Works 12/21/06
Lafayette Public Library Library Draws Gamers
An Avatar's Reflection MBMPL
Libraries Circulating Games
Library: Wilbraham & Monson Academy Library
Donated by parent of student
Contact: Sarah Ludwig
The WMA Library is currently working with the parent of a student to collect and house at least 25 board games. We will house the games in the library and lend them to students for library use. Boarding students may take the games back to their rooms for a 1-night loan. We're trying to figure out how to make sure that students return games with all of their pieces---without asking staff to count pieces every time a game comes back. We've hosted several very popular game nights here at the library as well.
Library: Baltimore County Public Library
Purchased from: Baker & Taylor
Ratings: EC, E, E10+, T
Contact: Todd Krueger
Baltimore County Public Library (Md.) currently offers over 2000 videogames at 17 branches for 7-day circulation, with a limit of 2 games per checkout. It was decided to catalog the E and E10+ games in the kids collection, and the T games are in the adult collection. The platforms supported are Xbox, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo GameCube. Next generation platforms and portables are being considered. Limited programming at some branches has included Runescape and GameCube tournaments.
Library: Bloomington Public Library
Purchased from: EB Games (Game Stop) and Game Exchange
Ratings: E & T
Contact: Amy Richards
Bloomington Public Library now offers video games for check out. We have current and classic titles for X-Box, Playstation 2, or GameCube systems. You can take up to two games at a time and keep them for one week. If the game you want is checked out, be sure to place a hold on the title and we will set it aside for you when it comes back. If you want to play the games you have for another whole week, just renew them if no one else has requested them. Consider this your warm-up for Game Fest in July...Don't be shy! Game on, gamers!
Library: Guilderland Public Library
Purchased from EB Games, Wal Mart, Best Buy. Donations accepted.
Ratings: E - T
Contact: Trevor Oakley
As of February 2, 2007, the Guilderland Public Library in Guilderland, NY, circulates console games. The library is launching a circulating collection of 102 games for the following platforms: Playstation 2 (PS2), XboX, Xbox 360, Nintendo Gamecube (GCN), and the Nintendo Wii. In the future, I would also like to support handheld platforms and the Playstation 3 (PS3). All games are loaned for free on a first-come, first-served basis for seven days. The library's Teen Advisory Committee will be organizing and planning gaming events after its February 2007 meetings!
Library: Rochester Hills Public Library
Purchased from: Gamestop, GameRush (Blockbuster) Best Buy and Baker & Taylor
Ratings: E - T
Contact: Megan Johnson
News about Games at RHPL: Animeted.org
Rochester Hills Public Library offers games for Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, Wii, PSP, Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS for checkout. The games circulate for 1 week, and can be renewed if no one is waiting for them. You can place holds on the games and the library has more than 800 titles in this growing collection. For reviews from teen gamers in the community check out Animeted.org!
Library: Park Forest Public Library
Purchased from: Baker & Taylor and eBay
Ratings: Everyone & Teen
Contact: Brian Vagt
The Park Forest Public Library offers games for Xbox, XBox 360, PS2, and Gamecube for checkout. The games circulate for 1 week and cannot be renewed. Holds cannot be placed unless you are a Park Forest or Olympia Fields patron for the new titles. Older titles are available for ciruclation to other MLS libraries. The library has about 90 titles in this growing collection.
Library: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
Purchased from: EB Games
Ratings: All
Contact: David Ward
The University of Illinois Undergraduate Library started collecting video games in Spring 2006. We are looking to support student interests, curricular and teaching needs, as well as the research of many scholars on campus. We are starting with new and best selling games for platforms like Playstation 2, GameCube, XBox, and XBox 360. We also plan to collect portable games (Nintendo DS, PSP, etc.) and vintage games as well.
Library: Mobile Public Library
Purchased from: Ingram
Ratings: E - T
Contact: Lauryn Poynor
I am doing video game selection for the Mobile Public Library system in Mobile Alabama. We are currently putting together a start-up collection of console games (X Box and Playstation 2) for our Main and West Regional libraries. I am hoping librarians who are readers of this wiki might be able to give some guidance in the area of reviews and purchasing.
We are currently using these sources for evaluative reviews: PC Gamer Magazine, Game Informer, Official X Box Magazine, Playstation Magazine, Sound and Vision, Electronic Gaming Monthly. Given their target audience these are all heavily weighted towards titles rated for Teen or Mature with less coverage of E titles for Everyone and very little coverage of materials geared for children. Are there websites that are authoritative for reviews that we might use to supplement these print magazines? Also, do you know of print or web-based sources that review games for children (console, not PC)? Are there any review sources (for either children or adult games) which review in advance of release?
As regards purchasing, which vendor(s)are you using? In your experience, which provide the best discount and fill rate?
All suggestions / recommendations are greatly appreciated.
Library: McCracken County Public Library
Purchased from: GameStop, WalMart, Sam's Club, and Best Buy
Ratings: E - T
Contact: Iris S. Garrott
We are circulating Nintendo Gamecube, Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation2. Playstation2 is by far our most popular platform. These games are setup to circulate just as DVDs. They check out for one week and are not renewable. We also have been circulating PC games for a long time now. They are setup to circulate just as CDs which checkout for three weeks and are renewable.
We select titles from Xbox Platinum Hits, PS2 Greatest Hits, and Gamecube Player's Choice. We also buy games based on user ratings that are within our price guideline of basically under $25.00 per title. New releases are available for in-house play at our Young Adult Media Bar.
Since console game circulation is new for us, we consider it a demonstration project and thus have a limited budget until it is a proven success. We are evaluating customer response and request, overdue and billed items, as well as how often items are damaged or needing repair. Since the beginning this project in December, 2005, our customer response has been fantastic. We have doubled our collection twice during that time.
We currently hold about 300 games for circulation.
Library: Oakland Public Library
Purchased From: Baker & Taylor, Best Buy, and EB Games
Ratings: E-T
Contact: Susy Moorhead
We are currently circulating Sony PlayStation 2 games. We decided on PS2 as it is the most popular platform with our teen patrons. Xbox is a close second and some branches of Oakland Public Library (OPL) plan to purchase Xbox games for their collections soon. The games check out for one week only without renewals or holds. Fines are $1 a day. We have been circulating games since Summer 2006. We choose which games to buy through patron requests and reviews online and in print review sources. We do plan to purchase consoles for gaming programs in the future. We currently circulate a little over 100 games at 14 branches.
Library: Ada Community Library
Purchased From: Hastings, Wal-Mart, and Amazon.com
Ratings: EC, E, E10+, T
Contact: Dylan Baker
We are circulating Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Gameboy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 2 and Sony PSP games. Games rated "E" are shelved with our juvenile collection, while games rated "T" are shelved with our young adult collection. The games checkout for one week (limit of five per card).
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Tuesday's game schedule set; Italy to play the Dominican Republic in afternoon contest; Team USA vs. Puerto Rico in nightcap
MIAMI - With the First Round of the World Baseball Classic now complete, the schedule of games for this Tuesday in Miami has been confirmed.
Second Round games at Marlins Park begin on Tuesday with a split doubleheader. The first game, which features Pool D Runner-Up Italy vs. Pool C Champion the Dominican Republic, is set for 1:08 pm. The evening game, which pits Pool D Champions Team USA against Pool C Runner-Up Puerto Rico, will begin at 8:08 p.m.
There will be 24 Major League All-Stars playing on the four teams that are advancing to Miami. Team USA features former MVPs Ryan Braun, Joe Mauer, and Jimmy Rollins, and adds R.A. Dickey as the reigning Cy Young Award winner. In addition to those four, other All-Stars include Heath Bell, Gio Gonzalez, Adam Jones, Craig Kimbrel, Brandon Phillips, Giancarlo Stanton, Shane Victorino, Ryan Vogelsong, David Wright, and Ben Zobrist.
The Dominican Republic includes former MVP Miguel Tejada. The team has seven All-Stars, including Tejada, Robinson Cano, Nelson Cruz, Hanley Ramirez, Jose Reyes, Fernando Rodney, and Edinson Volquez.
Puerto Rico features three All-Stars in Carlos Beltran, Yadier Molina, and Alex Rios.
Italy is led by Major League players including Chris Denorfia, Jason Grilli, Nick Punto, and Anthony Rizzo. The team also has eight Italian-born players, including the first Italian born-and-raised player in Major League history, Alex Liddi. Liddi is a product of the MLB International European Academy.
Tickets remain for all games of the World Baseball Classic Round 2 in Miami. Box Office hours are 8 am to 8 pm on Monday and 9 am to one hour following the completion of games. Tickets are also available online at worldbaseballclassic.com.
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Up for Hall, Mussina hopes to avoid 'Mr. Almost' tag
Winner of 270 games with Yanks, O's among first-timers on Cooperstown ballot
NEW YORK -- It is almost difficult to believe that more than five years have passed since Mike Mussina stood in the visiting clubhouse at Fenway Park, his fingers digging into a container of McDonald's french fries with a satisfied grin spreading across his face.
Mussina had just logged his 20th victory of the 2008 season, altering a reputation that had him known as a "Mr. Almost" of sorts: He had been a runner-up for a Cy Young Award, fell one inning shy of being a World Series champion and was one strike short of a perfect game in 2001.
The results will be announced exclusively on MLB Network and simulcast on MLB.com live on Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET as part of a three-hour live show beginning at noon. On Thursday, MLB.com and MLB Network will air the news conferences featuring the electees live from New York at 11 a.m. ET.
In doing so, he finished on a high note, completing a career that now makes an interesting case for enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
"I think that's an argument that people are going to have opinions on both sides," Mussina has said. "There's some nice things that I've been able to do. There's both sides to the argument. My numbers match up well with guys that are in the Hall of Fame, and of course there are guys that have better numbers than mine."
This will mark Mussina's first turn on the Hall of Fame ballot, with his fate to be decided by the voting members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Pitching for 18 seasons with the Yankees and Orioles, Mussina compiled a lifetime record of 270-153 and a 3.68 ERA.
"There's no question in my mind he's a Hall of Famer," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. "What he's done in the period of the steroid era, unfortunately, in the American League East -- I don't care what that record is. Some people say 300 wins is an automatic plateau.
"What he did to get 270 total wins, with all those things combined -- in a division where the Red Sox and Yankees have been slugging it out ... [in] the toughest division in baseball for at least a decade -- I just think it has been spectacular for the length and consistency. He's one of the all-timers."
A candidate must receive 75 percent of the vote from the BBWAA to gain election to the Hall. No players reached that threshold in 2013. Second baseman Craig Biggio (68.2 percent), starting pitcher Jack Morris (67.7 percent) and first baseman Jeff Bagwell (59.6 percent) are the top returning vote-getters from last year's ballot. Results of the 2014 election will be announced Wednesday. Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Frank Thomas, Jeff Kent and Mussina highlight the first-time candidates.
A five-time All-Star and seven-time Gold Glove Award winner who toiled for his entire career in the American League East during an era marked by performance-enhanced slugging, Mussina was able to win at least 15 games in 11 seasons.
He enjoyed six top five finishes in voting for the AL Cy Young Award, finishing second to Pedro Martinez in 1999. Mussina's 270 wins are tied with Burleigh Grimes for 33rd place on baseball's all-time list, and he retired as the oldest pitcher to record a 20-win season for the first time.
Only five pitchers in the game's history have had as many wins as Mussina while matching his .638 career winning percentage: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Roger Clemens, Lefty Grove and Randy Johnson.
Some were surprised that Mussina walked away after his 20-win season in 2008, believing that he could have held on for a few more years to further bolster a Hall of Fame case that -- as it stands -- compares nicely to past inductees Juan Marichal and Jim Palmer.
That was never part of the equation for Mussina, who realized that his best days were behind him at age 39. There were no guarantees that Mussina would quickly be able to reach 300 wins; in his mind, it might have taken three more years of hanging on.
"I wanted to go out on my own terms," Mussina said. "I didn't want to go out with somebody telling me that it was time to go. I don't want to bounce around from one team to another to keep playing at 40, or 41, or 42, trying to scratch out eight wins this year and 10 wins the next year. I never wanted to do it that way."
Mussina spoke openly at the time about having decided to make his exit while he was still having fun.
"I just felt so good about the season, the way it was going, and enjoying it and not getting caught up in the bad times," Mussina said. "It was like the last year of high school. You know it's going to end, and you just enjoy the ride."
In the years since his retirement, Mussina has returned to life in his beloved hometown of Montoursville, Pa., where he continues to avidly collect John Deere tractors and classic cars while serving as the head coach of the local high school varsity basketball team.
The Orioles inducted Mussina into their Hall of Fame in 2012, and now it will be up to the voters to decide if Mussina's accomplishments on the field also warrant a road trip to Cooperstown in the near future.
"To ask if I should be compared to Greg Maddux or to Glavine or anybody that's played in this era, that in itself is an honor," Mussina said. "People are going to talk about it any number of ways. I'm just glad that I've achieved enough and made enough of an impression that people are going to include me in the conversation."
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* "Perl 6"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6> is an extensively refactored, super-modernized, and ultra-supercharged derivative of Perl 5. Simple things will still be simple to do, but you'll have enormously more "syntactic compound leverage" and "semantic overdrive" available for tackling challenging tasks.
* Chromatic has written a good introductory article on "why Perl 6 is needed, and what it is"<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/01/12/what_is_perl_6.html>.
* Also see Juerd's "Refuting Perl 6 Myths"<http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/talks/p6myths2.html>. (A slight correction to Juerd's slides: it is Perl 5.10 that will have many Perl 6 features you can start using. These will be in "feature.pm"<http://search.cpan.org/%7Ergarcia/perl-5.9.3/lib/feature.pm>, which is currently part of the "Perl 5.9 developer branch"<http://search.cpan.org/%7Ergarcia/perl-5.9.3/>.)
* See the documentation section below for much more information.
^^^ The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List
* [The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List] This list was moved to its own page so that there would be plenty of room for people at add additional explanations of what these features are, and to explain why they are Very Good Things (tm).
^^^ Other Answers
* Larry Wall (2006): Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to that.
* Damian Conway (2003): The Perl 6 design process is about keeping what works in Perl 5, fixing what doesn't, and adding what's missing. That means there will be a few fundamental changes to the language, a large number of extensions to existing features, and a handful of completely new ideas. These modifications, enhancements, and innovations will work together to make the future Perl even more insanely great — without, we hope, making it even more greatly insane.
* Perl 6 is still under construction. So don't make critical plans that depend on it just yet. However, please see other sections below about intermediate Perl 6-related solutions you can use now (or soon, as in Perl 5.10, which will feature several Perl 6 features).
* Crazy (in a good way).
* Perl 5 : Swiss Army Chain Saw == Perl 6 : Swiss Army T-X Terminator (on the side of humans in this case).
* ....
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** (<http://www.jwcs.net/~jonathan/perl6/>).
** (Pxperl.com appears to have stopped routinely updating their Win32 builds.)
* Pugs: (<http://www.pugscode.org/>)
* Parrot home page: (<http://www.parrotcode.org/>)
* FYI: Perl development server: (<http://feather.perl6.nl/>).
* Code repository:
** Live repository (<http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/>)
** Mirror (<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/>)
* Perl 6 code examples. (Once you've had a chance to play with these examples, you may want to contribute your own examples and tests.):
** Perl 6 examples (<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/examples/>)
** Perl 6 tests (<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/t/>)
^^ The Very Latest Perl 6 Information
(See the next major section for general information, including documentation, tutorials, and so on.)
^^^ Perl 6 News
* "Planet Perl 6 blog aggregrator"<http://planetsix.perl.org/> (The best general news source for Perl 6. It would be very helpful if others selectively copied the most useful information from this great resource into appropriate sections of this wiki.)
* "Planet Parrot blog aggregator"<http://planet.parrotcode.org/>
^^^ Perl 6 Mailing Lists
The currently active Perl 6 mailing lists are at (<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/>) and Google Groups (<http://groups.google.com/>):
* "perl.perl6.users"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users> # For users of (versus developers of) Perl 6.
* "perl.perl6.internals"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals>
* "perl.perl6.language"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language>
* "perl.perl6.compiler"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.compiler>
* "perl.perl6.announce"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.announce>
You can also get these by email; see (<http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl6-users)> for details (and make appropriate substitutions on "-users" for other groups).
You can access the mailing lists in several ways (we use perl.perl6.users as an example below, make appropriate substitutions for other cases):
* Subscribe by emailing email@example.com.
* Access the news feed by pointing your news reader to: <news://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl6.users>. Need a decent Windows newsreader? "Mozilla's Thunderbird"<http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/> works for me.
* We're also available at "Google Groups perl.perl6.users"<http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.users>. (Actually, *.users may be the only one not yet there.)
* Subject lines of mailing list posts with link to each post can be found in the "perl.perl6.users mail list archives"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users>.
* There is also a "RSS feed"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/rss/perl.perl6.users.rdf>.
^^^ Perl 6 IRC
IRC channels (and their archives) are a major source of useful information. NOTE: Please don't unthinkingly interrupt and pester the developers of Perl 6 with questions that you can just as well ask on perl.perl6.users, which they and others can then later answer at their convenience. (As always, it's good manners to search Google Groups and to check archival logs before posting questions.)
* The "#perl6" IRC channel is on (<http://freenode.net/>).
* "Daily logs"<http://colabti.de/irclogger//irclogger_logs/perl6> are available.
* "TimToady" is Larry Wall's nickname on #perl6.
* Need an IRC client on Windows? Try "Chatzilla"<http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/>, a "Firefox"<http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/> extension.
* Some handy #perl6 "bot-isms":
** ?eval <Perl 6 expression> # Replays with evaluated expression.
** perlbot nopaste # Use to paste blocks of text offline; it replies to IRC with URL to it.
^^ Perl 6 Docs
^^^ General docs
* [Glossary of Perl 6 Terms and Jargon].
* "Official Perl 6 Documentation Page"<http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/> (Which means, documentation that is officially bundled with Perl 6 builds and releases.) (on feather, a Perl 6 development server)
* "Perl6 Community Development Server"<http://feather.perl6.nl/> (on feather, a Perl 6 development server)
* "Perl's Official Home Page"<http://www.perl.org/> (at perl.org)
* "Perl 6 Synopses"<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/synopsis.html> (This is the official Perl 6 specification, which supersedes the apocalypses and exegeses, and which is bundled with Perl 6 builds. The rapidly growing Perl 6 test base is another {very important, complementary, and emerging} part of the Perl 6 specification as well.)
* "Perl 6 Development Info"<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/> (at perl.org)
* "Another Perl 6 Wiki"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6> (For a long time, the Perl 6 Wiki at perl.net.au was the best general introduction to Perl 6, and a great point of departure to other Perl 6 resources around the web.)
* "Perl 6 Users FAQ"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6_Users_FAQ> (The initial large batch of text and links on this Wiki originally came from this FAQ on the perl.net.au Perl 6 Wiki. The folks there deserve much thanks for "Wikifying" my original ugly ASCII Perl 6 Users FAQ, which was developed at the inaguration of perl.perl6.users.)
* "Perl 6 Tutorial"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6_Tutorial> (at perl.net.au)
* Most of the information on getting started can be found on this "getting started"<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/docs/getting_started> page. You may also find the following links useful:
** Debian Linux (guide in "English"<http://dresden-pm.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/PM/PugsFirstBloodEnglish>, "German"<http://dresden-pm.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/PM/PugsFirstBlood>).
** "Ubuntu Linux"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users/36>.
* Russian language "Perl 6 website"<http://perl6.ru/>.
^^^ Articles on Perl 6
* "Who's Who in Perl 6, Parrot, & Pugs"<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/people.html>
* "What is Perl 6?"<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/01/12/what_is_perl_6.html>
* "Refuting Perl 6 Myths"<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/docs/talks/p6myths2.html>
* "Present Continuous, Future Perfect"<http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Larry_Wall_-_Present_Continuous,_Future_Perfect> Larry Wall's 2006 Perl talk.
* The O'Reilly "Perl website"<http://www.perl.com/> sometimes has interesting articles about Perl 6. (Need to search for them.)
^^^ Some design influences on Perl 6
* "Perl Best Practices" by Damian Conway. Even though this currently applies to Perl 5, most of the principles also apply to Perl 6. This book is a semi-officially recommended guideline for people doing develop core Perl 6 modules and tests.
* ""Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman; Getting the Masses Hooked on Haskell"<http://research.microsoft.com/%7Eemeijer/Papers/ICFP06.pdf>" (Warning: PDF link) by Erik Meijer.
* "Traits"<http://www.iam.unibe.ch/%7Escg/Research/Traits/> are one of the "Big Ideas" that have had some influence on #perl6 design discussions.
* ""The 100 Year Language"<http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html>" Useful information on how we should view Perl 6 (although it's not about Perl 6).
^^^ Helping hack the Perl 6 production docs
* "Read this first"<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/docs/README>.
* "The evil plan"<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/docs/notes/docs_evil_plan.txt>. This mentions many things you can do to help out with docs, although it is a bit dated.
* This plan is still current AFAIK: "Perl 6 developers are refactoring relevant introductions, tutorials, specifications into the Perl6::Doc namespace; expect to see this module subsumed by it in the near future.":
** (<http://www.annocpan.org/~AUTRIJUS/Perl6-Bible-0.30/lib/Perl6/Bible.pm>),
** (<http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/Perl6-Bible-0.30/lib/Perl6/Bible.pm>).
^^^ Helping hack on (versus hack with) Perl 6
* "Pugs Apocryphon 1"<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/docs/01Overview.html> Overview of the Pugs project.
* "Doing Pugs-related development"<http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/getting_started>.
* "A Peek Into Pugs Internals"<http://perlcabal.org/%7Egaal/peek/start.html>
* "German language notes about compiling Pugs"<http://dresden-pm.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/PM/PugsFirstBlood>
* "Pugs SVN repository"<http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/>.
* "Parrot"<http://planet.parrotcode.org/>.
* "Parrot FAQ"<http://www.parrotcode.org/faq/>
^^^ Perl 5 modules implementing Perl 6 features
* In Perl 5.9 (development branch) and Perl 5.10 (production release), "feature.pm"<http://search.cpan.org/%7Ergarcia/perl-5.9.3/lib/feature.pm> provides some Perl 6 features that you will be able to selectively turn on.
* There are many modules that currently implement parts of Perl 6 in Perl 5. Go to "CPAN"<http://search.cpan.org/> and do a "module search on perl6"<http://search.cpan.org/search?query=perl6&mode=module>.
* (Note: (<http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Perl6>) is missing many entries. Use the search above for the time being.)
* Some of these are listed on the "Perl 6"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6> page.
* ....
^^ What are people doing with Perl 6?
* PITA — The Perl Image Testing Architecture (<http://ali.as/pita/>).
* Darren Duncan's work on a Perl 6 Relation type (as in relational algebra and data structures).
* ....
^^ Wiki 101
* If you'd like an *introductory tour* of the Socialtext Workspace, [start here].
* Visit *Recent Changes* every once in a while to see what's new, and see {link: help [Socialtext Documentation]} for tips to use this Workspace.
* Make links by putting words or phrases in square brackets. Click on *Edit This Page* to see some examples. Note from wiki novice: If you (or someone else) later changes the title of a page you create this way, you'll need to update the original link too. The Wiki's Recent Changes link will show you the new name, if you forget what it was, or otherwise lose track of your renamed page.


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Looking to permanently mount your CGEM telescope? You'll want this adapter kit to easily attach the CGEM equatorial mount to a permanent pier.
The top plate of the adapter kit is designed similar to the original CGEM tripod top. It has a cylindrical recess to accept the mounting post on the bottom of the CGEM mount head. An included bolt is used to secure the mount to the adapter plate in a similar fashion to how the CGEM normally bolts to the tripod. There is also a pre-drilled hole on the top adapter plate to accept the azimuth-adjustment post. (The post from the original tripod is used on the adapter kit.)
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If you've ever wondered whether it was true that pregnant women should stay away from cats because their feces can cause birth defects, here's the somewhat surprising answer: yes and no.
It turns out that cats do expel a parasite in their feces that can be harmful to a fetus. But this parasite is also easily contracted in other ways, not just through cats. And there are plenty of ways to prevent this parasite from affecting a fetus, so expectant mothers don't need to shoo away cats for fear of their babies' health.
Evidence for the health claim
Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by a specific parasite which normally causes minimal symptoms or goes entirely undetected in most humans and animals. Cats spread the parasite via their feces after eating contaminated small animals like birds or rodents. While the cats are rarely affected by the infection, the parasites they expel are potentially dangerous to human pregnancy.
If a pregnant woman cleans an infected cat's litter box, she is exposed to the parasite. If the woman touches her mouth after coming in contact with the parasite, she may become infected and place her fetus at risk for serious complications, either at birth or later in life.
At or before birth, the parasite can cause serious eye infections or other eye problems, brain damage, or even stillbirth or miscarriage. And while many babies infected with toxoplasmosis may not exhibit any symptoms at first, they may eventually suffer from blindness or intellectual disability as a result.
Any cat let outdoors or fed raw or undercooked meat may also carry the parasite. Any contaminated feces from cats that have contracted the infection are a danger to a woman's pregnancy.
Evidence against the health claim
Toxoplasmosis is not only spread in cat feces, but also through contaminated meat. A person is just as likely, if not more likely, to contract the infection by eating infected raw or undercooked meat. Even just handling the meat and failing to wash hands afterward can spread the infection.
Interestingly, if a woman contracts the infection prior to her pregnancy, she becomes immune and will not pass the infection to her fetus during pregnancy. A blood test can confirm if a woman has already been exposed to the parasite.
The chances of most women contracting the infection from their cat are fairly low. First, indoor cats fed commercially-packaged cat food have a very low risk of being exposed to the parasite. Most cats that carry the parasite are outdoor cats who feed on contaminated prey.
Women don't need to avoid cats and certainly don't need to give up their beloved pet if they are a cat owner. A few simple precautions can prevent the spread of the parasite, including special care when cleaning the litter box or avoiding it altogether. If you are pregnant, have someone else clean the litter box. But if you absolutely must do it yourself, you may reduce your risk by wearing disposable gloves and immediately and thoroughly washing your hands when you're finished.
While some cat feces do have the potential to cause serious or even fatal complications in a developing fetus, the fact remains that women do not need to avoid cats altogether during their pregnancy. Staying clear of the litter box will dramatically lower the risk of toxoplasmosis.
Furthermore, expectant mothers should not only be cautious around cat feces, but be careful when handling raw meat as well. The risk of toxoplasmosis infection is higher if pregnant women eat raw or undercooked meat, or handle raw meat without immediately washing their hands.
So when the joyous news of an upcoming arrival is announced, there's no need for Fluffy to pack her bags. Keep her indoors, only feed her prepackaged cat food and do your best to avoid her litter box.
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Wing IDE is a software development environment for Python. It provides powerful editing, code intelligence, refactoring, testing, debugging, and search capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down on coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code.
Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C++, and Java. In Seed7, new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other solutions are more obvious. Although Seed7 contains several concepts of other programming languages, it is generally not considered as a direct descendant of any other programming language.
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the latest USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
SmartGit/Hg is a graphical user interface for Git and Mercurial which can work with SVN repositories. It supports cloning from common repository providers (e.g., GitHub, Assembla), assists Git newbies, and also offers the advanced, powerful Git features. It provides several tools to help create clean commits, for example by allowing the user to commit just parts of changes files and reordering and squashing unpushed commits. If you are using GitHub or GitHub Enterprise, SmartGit/Hg can work easily with pull requests (creation, resolving) and commit comments. SmartGit/Hg ships with a built-in SSH client, file comparer, and merge tool which are capable of syntax coloring for many languages.
DeleGate is a multi-purpose application level gateway or proxy server that mediates communication of various protocols, applying cache and conversion for mediated data, controlling access from clients, and routing toward servers. It translates protocols between clients and servers, converting between IPv4 and IPv6, applying SSL (TLS) to arbitrary protocols, merging several servers into a single server view with aliasing and filtering. It can be used as a simple origin server for some protocols (HTTP, FTP, and NNTP).
Pen is a load balancer for "simple" TCP-based protocols such as HTTP or SMTP. It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside. It automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance.
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is an N-way messaging server and networking API. It includes client-side networking APIs for various languages, including C, C++, C#, Delphi, Java, and Python. MUSCLE lets programs communicate over a network via streams of serialized Message objects. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other and store information in its server-side hierarchical database. The database supports flexible queries via hierarchical wildcarding, and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism.
A simple but relatively effective trojan scan tool.
A command line FOURCC changer for MPEG4 or DivX files.


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