Dragons in the Library: Tabletop Gaming and the Public Library
This was another fascinating and fun program and a great way to end the conference, presented by two Librarians from Fresno County Public Library. I'm not a gamer, especially RPG, but this was still really interesting. This coming weekend FCPL is presenting their annual 2 day gaming con, BookWrym! In 2014 186 people attended over two days. In 2015, 320 attended. They have many many tables and many DMs (Dungeon Masters). People register in advance and there is a number of different games, not just D&D, but most are still RPG. I could see us doing a program like this as a Cultural Arts Night with games in Teen, Non-Fiction, and Children's. Can't you just see a group playing Bean Farm? Or Codenames? (I feel much cooler just knowing what these are now)
April 30th is tabletop gaming day. Just saying...
The idea behind alternative programming like this is to bring non-traditional library users to programs. Studies show "those people" are coming to the library. But, they do not attend programs. So, new programs=new users. Also, these alternative programs help to build a community, beyond books.
Other programs beyond gaming are:
Santa Clara offers fitness classes
coloring books for adults (I think we're already looking into this)
trivia nights (hello, San Jose!)
Denver offers "Overdue" Beer, Books, and Bands Together at Last (would Risk Management go for that?)
How to: caching in on the Pinterest and How-to crowd.
From one great iconic nerd:
http://wilwheaton.net/2011/01/librarians-are-awesome/
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