The Geneva Public Library in Geneva, NY has come up with the most amazing way to gamify the library: The Fantasy Library League.
In the Fantasy Library League (FLL), you test your ability to purchase books that your community wants to read just like a librarian. Players go online (or complete a paper form available at your Library) to choose an assortment of popular books that are currently available in or coming soon to libraries throughout the Pioneer Library System. We’ll track how frequently your specific collection of titles circulates throughout the Fall. The players whose collections have the most total circulations will win fun prizes and, more importantly, bragging rights.
If I was in a public library I would be setting this up right now! Read all about it @ GenevaPublicLibrary.net.
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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The Geneva Public Library in Geneva, NY has come up with the most amazing way to gamify the library: The Fantasy Library League.