iSchool Capstone

Tabletop Game Nights: Co-Curricular Engagement in Academic Libraries

Project tags:

digital youth & youth services

information behavior & user research

Project poster

With this project, I have conducted a literature review of academic library outreach and how it needs to adapt to entice Millennials and the popularity of nonacademic outreach. I also looked at how libraries have readily adopted tabletop game nights and use this to actively engage with their community of users. Overall, tabletop game night nights in academic libraries is an interdisciplinary topic that draws on scholarship from a variety of fields. I brought these threads together to make the case that academic libraries should consider tabletop game nights as a positive and successful outreach opportunity.

Project participants:

Cari Lyle

MLIS Online

Video Link :

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