Applying Gamification to the Library Orientation

Reed, Karen; Miller, Alexis J.

doi:10.6017/ital.v39i3.12209

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“…Interactive storytelling has previous applications in librarianship to create an immersive and self-guided user experience. 15 Gamification addresses engagement issues, emphasising the enjoyable aspect and honing linguistic abilities. Library orientation, website, databases, and education are a few instances of gamified e-library services.…”

Section: Gamification In Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of digital humanities in libraries

Moid,

Masoom Raza,

Javed

et al. 2023

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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Libraries have started incorporating game-like elements into their services, while the latter have added game-based facilities to their collections. Now a days, Gamification is a well-known concept in education and marketing. It entails incorporating game-like features into a certain process. It can serve to attract people’s attention, interest them in a specific activity, and affect their behaviour. Gamification can be used to grab library users’ attention, engage them in game-like library activities, and impact their overall library user behaviour. Ten years of data from 2013 to 2023 was extracted from Web of Science, and R Software (Biblioshiny) has been used for visualising the extracted data. Findings are mainly based on indicators like- most relevant sources, authors, globally cited documents, affiliations, country scientific production, three field plot, word growth, keyword plus and co-occurrence network. This study emphasises the importance of Gamification in library culture as it motivates users and makes learning more engaging.

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Section: Gamification In Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of digital humanities in libraries

Moid,

Masoom Raza,

Javed

et al. 2023

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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“…Implementation of gamification within instruction requires a change in design thinking to meet the outcomes and be accessible to all (Reed & Miller, 2020). Gamification of instruction can be controversial for some, seen as manipulating extrinsic motivation and devaluing the knowledge journey by focusing only on outcome (Hughes & Lacy, 2016).…”

Section: The Academic Library and Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Playing in Limbo

Monnier

Winters

2022

The Journal of Play in Adulthood

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University libraries are stereotyped as a quiet space for studying and reading in the stacks, but they can be a vibrant hub for learning and play, especially when they contain writing centers, tutoring programs, and other support structures for students. At our university, the writing center and student success office are housed in the main library location. Efforts are made by these offices to engage students, who regularly use the library to study, with their services. Due to the physical boundaries and location within the library, students seem to intentionally come to the physical location to utilize only one of the services, either the writing center, tutoring, or the library’s physical space and resources. We have tried to add playful elements to the liminal space between the library and the writing center’s boundaries by using a variety of attention-grabbing activities to encourage students to engage with both services and support their own well-being. While these activities generate some level of engagement, some work better than others because the activity encourages participation between students, writing center staff, and library staff. Creating elements of play with liminal space and within the library contributes to keeping the atmosphere of the library vibrant, social, and engaging.

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