With much gentle ribbing from me, my local library has some cautious interest in hearing more about this project. Is there a URL I can share with them or somewhere they can submit an email sign-up for updates on this project?
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Thatās great, Pinkunz! You can have them email me directly (ccpost@uncg.edu) for more information.
Iāve put in a grant proposal that would provide funding to host a bigger conversation and initiate a planning process for libraries to develop strategies for licensing digital games (both commercial and non-commercial), but that project wouldnāt start until the summer. If that project gets funded, Iāll be looking for both public and academic libraries interested in joining the project, so Iād love to start developing a contact list of potentially interested organizations.
In the meantime, Iām plodding my way through the information I collected from this first round of exploratory interviews. I hope to have more to share in this space and elsewhere in the months ahead.
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Iām excited to share that the results of this research have been published! And only two years after I conducted the research (a combo of academic publishing taking way too long and me taking on quite a few concurrent projects).
In any event, hereās a link to access the full article. The link is good for 50 free copies. If those 50 run out, um, DM me.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts on this topic. I am also working toward some of the strategies for collecting digital games in libraries mentioned in the article, but having federal funding for the project terminated set me back a bit. Stay tuned.
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A fantastic step forward. Thanks for sharing the publication.
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