The Calvert Library has recently held some family gaming nights with a Wii. From the flickr photoset it looks like everyone had a great time.
(On a related note, if your library has a flickr account be sure to fill in your profile and include things like where you’re located and a link back to the library’s Web site. I would have loved to link back to the library’s site in this post but I didn’t want to guess as to which one Google listed was the right one.)
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Wii Play Family”
We had a BLAST with the library’s Wii over the Thanksgiving holiday. My boss let me take it home, and even The Spouse, who never plays video games, got into it, especially the baseball game. The library has taken it to retirement homes and the residents have had a ball with it! It’s been a HUGE success among that population. One of the women only wanted to play if she could box one of the male residents! They hadn’t taken the nunchucks with them, so she couldn’t box, but they’ll be going back in a week, and she’s delighted. So, so funny!
We had a BLAST with the library’s Wii over the Thanksgiving holiday. My boss let me take it home, and even The Spouse, who never plays video games, got into it, especially the baseball game. The library has taken it to retirement homes and the residents have had a ball with it! It’s been a HUGE success among that population. One of the women only wanted to play if she could box one of the male residents! They hadn’t taken the nunchucks with them, so she couldn’t box, but they’ll be going back in a week, and she’s delighted. So, so funny!