ALA President Jim Rettig’s Connections Salon with Scott Nicholson

December 7, 2008 Uncategorized No Comments

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Friday, December 19, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT/UTC/Zulu:
ALA Connections Salon: Gaming Connections with Special Guest Scott Nicholson

The December installment in the series of ALA President Jim Rettig’s ALA Connections Salons will be a free informal online discussion with Scott Nicholson an avid expert on gaming in libraries. Nicholson is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and the Chief Scientist of the Library Game Lab of Syracuse. In addition to gaming, Scott’s interests include the assessment of library services through data mining and participatory librarianship. Nicholson is also the host of the Board Games with Scott video series, the On Board Games podcast and the Gaming in Libraries podcast.

Like European discussion salons, the ALA Connections Salon provides a relaxed environment (online, of course) where ALA members can participate in formal and informal discussions centered around a timely topic.

Host: American Library Association

Location: ALA OPAL 100-Seat Online Room

More information at http://www.opal-online.org/index.html