ALA Collaborates with DEMCO for National Gaming Day

From American Libraries Direct, October 6, 2010

The American Library Association (ALA) announced that DEMCO is partnering with ALA to help one lucky library level up its gaming program with a $5000 shopping spree! Here's the deal.

Libraries who are registered with ALA for National Gaming Day 2010 (NGD10) are eligible to submit an application to win the prize. During the NGD10 activities, take pictures, maybe get some video, talk with patrons to get ideas, etc. in order to show DEMCO the library's vision for a next-level gaming program for the community. Planning ahead and thinking big will likely be one of the keys to victory, because librarians will want to show the great things that happened during their 2010 event in order to tell ALA how they'll build on it for next year. Make sure to register to participate in National Gaming Day to be eligible for the contest at http://bit.ly/ngd10reg.

Then sign up for the DEMCO contest. For more information and the application form go to www.demco.com/goto?gameshopspree.

A panel of judges will choose up to 15 finalists from all of the submissions, and then one winner will be randomly drawn from the finalists at ALA's Midwinter Meeting in January. The winning library gets the shopping spree, and the fun job of figuring out how to spend $5000 to make that vision happen. hen give a thumbs up for DEMCO on Face book or reach out to them in another way to thank them for supporting gaming libraries in general and National
Gaming Day in particular. ALA definitely appreciates their support.

Game on!

The American Library Association is coordinating its second annual National Gaming Day @ your library national video game tournament for Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. Gamers in your library can compete against those in other libraries across the country.

Registration is free, and we'd love to have your library participate in whatever way works best for you. Please fill out this survey to add your library to the national list and map of participating libraries and request free donations at http://bit.ly/ngd2009.

Also, free National Gaming Day @ your library publicity tools are available at http://tinyurl.com/ngdmembers .

For more information about National Gaming Day, visit the National Gaming Day @ your library site at http://ngd.ala.org , or ILoveLibraries.org at http://ilovelibraries.org/gaming .