Current Gaming Events @ Your Library

Giant Checkers
Show us your moves on our giant checker board. King me! Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Learn, Quest, Play: Gaming with Kinect
Looking for something to do on your day off from school? Teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking have never been so much fun. Join your peers to develop your skills and engage with the library. Be sure to register because there will be pizzaAudience: Teens (12-18)

 

Learn, Quest, Play: Settlers of Catan
Teamwork, critical thinking and learning have never been so much fun. Settlers of Catan is a strategy board game based on economics and diplomacy. Players can adapt their game play with every roll of the dice to sabotage or cooperate with others.Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Learn, Connect, Play: Online Gaming & Board Games
Children participate at the library in Wii and board games that encourage cooperation, problem solving, word and letter recognition, and critical thinking skills. Audience: Elementary (5-11), Family/Youth & Caregivers

 

Learn, Quest, Play: Gaming
Teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking have never been so much fun. Join your peers to develop your skills and engage with the library on a whole new level. Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Learn, Quest, Play: Wii
Teamwork, problem solving and critical thinking have never been so much fun. Join your peers to develop your skills and engage with the library on a whole new level. Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Kinect- Joy Ride
Learn, Quest, Play- Come play Joyride on the XBox 360, and enjoy the thrill of stunts in the world of racing without a controller.Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Learn, Quest, Play
Teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking have never been so much fun. Join your peers to develop your skills and engage with the library on a whole new level. Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Kinect- Dance Central
Learn, Quest, Play- Learn about controller free technology as you show off your dance moves with the Xbox 360 Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Learn, Quest, Play: Gaming with Kinect
Teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking have never been so much fun. Join your peers to develop your skills and engage with the library on a whole new level. Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Learn, Quest, Play: Xbox and Wii Gaming
Teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking have never been so much fun. Join your pers to develop your skills and engage with the library on a whole new level. Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Board Games
Teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking have never been so much fun. Join your peers to develop your skills and engage with the library on a whole new level. Audience: Elementary (5-11) Audience: Elementary (5-11) Audience: Elementary (5-11) Audience: Elementary (5-11)

 

Giant Scrabble
Show us your big vocabulary on our giant scrabble board. Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Rock and Read Bingo
Teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking have never been so much fun. Join your peers to develop your skills and engage with the library on a whole new level. Audience: Elementary (5-11) Audien Audience: Elementary (5-11)

 

Learn, Quest, Play: Video Gaming
Teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking have never been so much fun. Join your peers to develop your skills and engage with the library on a whole new level. Audience: Teens (12-18)

 

Neocubes and puzzle-palooza
Join us in the teen zone for fun puzzles and try out Neocubes- use them to learn engineering basics by replicating complex structures into two and three dimensional shapes. Audience: Teens (12-18)

18 Responses to Current Gaming Events @ Your Library

  1. Rajeev | December 14, 2007 at 3:19 am | Reply

    sir,

    Kindly get the details for setting a virtual gaming zone

    Rajeev

  2. Anonymous | December 17, 2007 at 3:51 pm | Reply

    Dear Rajeev,
    Thank you for your comments. We offer many kinds of game programs at our library branches for adults, teens, and children. The Gaming Zone programs offer console, PC LAN gaming and board games. We network a group a laptops specifically for LAN play inside the library. Other programs offer the Nintendo DS, which users can play against each other over the library’s wireless network. I hope this has answered your question about what we do here at PLCMC. If you have any other questions you would want to use the gotgame@plcmc.org email to get a response from the Gaming Zone team leaders.

    Sincerely,
    The Questing Librarian,
    Gaming Zone Blog Administrator

  3. shaun m. robinson | January 14, 2008 at 3:09 pm | Reply

    interested in playing

  4. questinglibrarian | January 24, 2008 at 7:57 pm | Reply

    Hi Shaun,
    We would love to have you stop by and participate in one of our gaming programs. Branch locations, dates and times are listed under the Current Gaming Events Tab on the Gaming Zone Blog and also at the PLCMC Website under the Programs tab. Here is the link: http://www.plcmc.org/Programs/
    If you have any other questions or comments please let us know.
    Sincerely,
    The Question Librarian,
    Gaming Zone Blog Administrator

  5. Daniel Cole | August 20, 2008 at 5:36 pm | Reply

    You should start an anime club for adults. I’m thirty so it would be very odd and out of place for me to show up to the teen one (especially since I teach and some of them there could be my students) but I am a big anime freak. Thanks!

  6. questinglibrarian | September 3, 2008 at 12:04 pm | Reply

    Hi Daniel, You can contact your local library branch about wanting to start an Anime Club for Adults. I am sure that they would be delighted to have an Anime expert from the community to start this club. There could also be staff available to partner with you to start the club. Here are the locations so you can find the branch closest to you: http://www.plcmc.org/Locations/ Give them a call to get started!

  7. vlady | November 6, 2008 at 7:39 pm | Reply

    u need to add more events to mint hill

  8. questinglibrarian | November 6, 2008 at 7:54 pm | Reply

    Hi VLady, I’m sure that if you contact Mint Hill library (704) 416-5221 and let them know what kind of gaming programming you are interested in they could see about adding those types of programs. You could even ask about volunteering at the library to assist staff in being able to provide the kinds of programs you love. Happy Gaming!

  9. robert | April 2, 2009 at 9:59 am | Reply

    You need a Halo 3 tounament at north couty regional.

  10. questinglibrarian | April 2, 2009 at 3:56 pm | Reply

    Hi Robert,
    Thanks for your recommendation about a Halo 3 tournament at North County Regional Library. You might want to contact the North County reference desk to see if that is something that can be arranged. Their phone number is 704-416-6000, option #4. Since Halo 3 is a rated M game it may require registration and showing proof of age with a state issued photo ID. It would be have to be limited to adults ages 18+ unless the program preparer has concent forms that a parent can pick up and sign for their minor. The library limits purchases to games with an ESRB rating from E (Everyone) to T (Teen) so you may have to bring in your own copy of Halo 3 for the XBox 360 and coordinate that with the staff person doing that program at North County.
    Happy Gaming!

  11. Chris | June 18, 2009 at 10:18 pm | Reply

    Maybe you could get more events for the portable systems, like DS or PSP.

  12. questinglibrarian | June 19, 2009 at 11:40 am | Reply

    Hi Chris!
    Contact ImaginOn for gaming events for portables. I know that they have 3 DS’s for programming. I’m sure that it will be a BYO Portable event. If you let them know your interests I’m sure they could arrange some programs for those portables!
    Here’s their number: (704) 416-4660. Also if you are interested in volunteering call (704) 416-4604 to see what opportunities are available.

  13. nikky906 | July 30, 2009 at 9:52 pm | Reply

    they should have a ds copitition with the ds some how projected on a sreen some how.

    that would be the coolest.

  14. questinglibrarian | August 8, 2009 at 2:25 pm | Reply

    Hi Nikky906,
    I spoke with library staff who do gaming programs with the Nintendo DS and none of us know of an AV cable available for the Nintendo DS. If there was then we could hook up the DSs to a projector with the AV cable. Maybe the next time the DS is upgraded it will have that capability.
    Thanks for asking!

  15. Menchie | November 22, 2009 at 12:50 am | Reply

    Hello,
    I work at one of the military library and would like to ask some ideas of what kind of XBOX 360 game is useful for game competition these coming holidays and I would like to contribute, or help the marines beating the blues. Any ideas in how I can set up a group competition will be highly appreciated.

    Thank you for your assistance,
    Menchie

  16. questinglibrarian | December 2, 2009 at 11:26 am | Reply

    Hi Menchie,
    Here is the response from our resident XBox 360 specialist (Writer Ed – Twitter @Zzazazz) who has done tournaments for our libraries:

    ***
    One game we have been successful with has been the Madden football game. It’s very popular and it really shines in head to head play. Also any of the 2K sports NBA games are good for a tournament type setting.

    Any of the popular shooter games like the new Modern Warfare 2 or Halo 3 are good for that also. If you have a big TV or a projector you can have four playing at once. If you don’t have a real big screen a sporting game might be the best way to go. That way you can have two players playing at once.

    That was just a couple of quick thoughts. Hit me back up if I can help in any way.
    ***

    Good luck Menchie and thank you for helping our military folks have an enjoyable holiday since they will be away from home.

    Best Regards,
    QuestingLibrarian

  17. Memsfeemn | May 31, 2010 at 2:04 am | Reply

    You’ve probably heard of the massive oil leak nearby the Gulf of Mexico. Do you think it will have a substantial damaging effect on our animal population near Mexico?

  18. questinglibrarian | May 31, 2010 at 8:25 pm | Reply

    Hi Memsfeemn,
    We appreciate your concern for the effects of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico on the local animal population. I am sure that the spill will have lasting effects that will take a long time to recover. However, this is a gaming blog and we would ask that you ask questions or offer comments that pertain to gaming since that is the focus of the blog.
    Many Thanks,
    Questing Librarian

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