International Games Day event held at Morris Library

8:58 a.m., Nov. 19, 2015--The University of Delaware Library held an event called International Games Day on Nov. 14, drawing over 80 students, faculty and community members to the Morris Library to celebrate and learn about gaming activities on campus.

This was the second year that the library participated in the event, which is centrally organized by the American Library Association and celebrated by over 1,000 libraries across the world.

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Activities at the University Library event included:

• Phillip Penix-Tadsen, assistant professor of Spanish, spoke about “Highlights from Latin American Video Game Design.” Penix-Tadsen then ran an open gaming session where participant could try out the games from his talk for themselves.
• Jacob Aimino of the Computer Animation and Game Design registered student organization (RSO) demonstrated an educational game he built with other students for their Educational Game Design Course at the UD. The game was called “Road Trip” and had the goal of helping elementary school students practice fractions.
• The Board Game Club RSO and local game store The Days of Knights ran a board and card game room with many different games to play.
• Mica Corradin of The Days of Knights ran a tabletop role-playing game.
• The Video Game Tournament Club RSO brought two Wii U consoles running Mario Kat 8 and Super Smash Bros. at the Student Multimedia Design Center’s Group Link Tables.
• Film and Video Collection had open gaming on their PS3, PS2, Xbox 360 and N64 consoles, and library staff members were on hand to suggest and circulate games from the collection.
• Game-related prizes were given away at both the opening and closing sessions. Prizes were won by participating in a visual trivia game.

The event was organized by Nico Carver, assistant librarian and coordinator of Student Multimedia Design Center Services in the Multimedia Collections and Services Department, and would not have been possible without the help and assistance of many people in the UD Library, including:

• Meghann Matwichuck, interim head of Multimedia Collections and Services Department;
• Deavon Church, computing support specialist II in the Library Information Technology User Support Department;
• Michael Gates, technology support specialist I in the Multimedia Collections  and Services Department;
• John Stevenson, associate librarian in the Multimedia Collections and Services Department;
• Julia Hamm, assistant director, Library Operations in the Office of the Vice Provost;
• Shelly McCoy, interim associate university librarian for Services, Outreach and Assessment in the Office of the Vice Provost; and
• Sandra Millard, interim vice provost and director of libraries in the Office of the Vice Provost.