LITA Nashville -- General Session, Saturday morning

Libraries and Public Interest Entertainment
Thom Gillespie, Indiana University

Gillespie is a very entertaining speaker with lots of stories to tell—an experience that is completely impossible to re-create in a blog entry. His main interest is creativity and he thinks that libraries can be the place where people can create stuff. The model is Community Access television. In a number of communities, the public library has the lab where people can create the content for Community Access TV. Why not for You Tube? Or, easier, why not have libraries teach Photoshop and Flash instead of just Microsoft Word? If the librarians don’t have those skills, find someone else who does.

He mentioned Orange Blender—a site with open source software for creative pursuits.

He says that the real learning is not in playing games, it is in making games. Can the library support that?

Libraries have Book Clubs—why not a Game Club where participants discuss a different Game each month?

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