A different library conference
With ALA Annual about to get underway, the professional press is entirely focused on that important event, it seems, and with good reason. But not everyone can attend nor even want to. I wanted to go...
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R U Game?
Back in June, I gave a short talk to some librarians from around the globe at the R U Game seminar. Beforehand, I wrote in these pages about “A Different Library Conference” and invited people to come...
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A View from Down Under
I met Phil Minchin first by email, and then in person at GenCon in Indianapolis this August. This serious-yet-humorous man asked thoughtful questions and has evolved considerable insight into how games...
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Change in Progress
If you keep up with your professional reading in the paper edition of Library Journal, you now know that I have chosen to step down as LJ’s games guru at the end of the year. (It’s in the issue with a...
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Xpress Reviews: Fiction | First Look at New Books, October 26, 2012
Week ending October 26, 2012 Lowenthal, Michael. The Paternity Test. Terrace Bks: Univ. of Wisconsin. 2012. 284p. ISBN 9780299290009. $26.95; eISBN 9780299290030. F Pat and Stu are a long-term gay...
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Rescuing Books, Remembering Harper Lee, Adding Rum | What We’re Reading
Stuff happens. I was in the middle of asking my colleagues at LJ/School Library Journal about the book they’d rescue from a fire (after the loved ones, human and otherwise, and the strongbox full of...
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After the Fourth | What We’re Reading
LJ, School Library Journal, and Junior Library Guild staffers climb back into the cockpit after a long holiday weekend in this post–Independence Day, postconference (the annual American Library...
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