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Dragons in the Stacks: A Teen Librarian's Guide to Tabletop Role-Playing(Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series)

Dragons in the Stacks: A Teen Librarian's Guide to Tabletop Role-Playing(Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series)


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A one-stop, complete guide to tabletop role-playing games for novice librarians as well as seasoned players. Tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) are a perfect fit for library teen services. They not only hold great appeal for teen patrons, but also help build important skills ranging from math and literacy to leadership and dramatics. Role-playing games are cost-effective too. Dragons in the Stacks explains why RPGs are so effective at holding teenagers' attention, identifies their specific benefits, outlines how to select and maintain a RPG collection, and demonstrates how they can enhance teen services and be used in teen programs. Detailed reviews of role-playing games are included as well, with pointers on their strengths, weaknesses, and library applications. Coauthored by an experienced young adult librarian and an adult services librarian, this is the definitive guide to RPGs in the library, and the only one currently available.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction Glossary Chapter 1: Let Me Tell You of the Days of High Adventure!; or, A Very Brief (and Admittedly Incomplete) History of Tabletop Role-Playing Games Chapter 2: Selection and Collection Development Chapter 3: Cataloging Chapter 4: Programming Chapter 5: Guide to the Games Appendix A: Games Listed by Genre Tags Appendix B: Resources Index

About the Author :
Steven A. Torres-Roman, MLIS, is teen librarian at DeKalb Public Library, DeKalb, IL. Cason E. Snow, MLIS, is metadata librarian/cataloger at University of Maine, Orono.

Review :
. . . [E]xcellent, user-friendly resource, especially recommended for librarians interested in incorporating table-top role-playing into the library's schedule of youth activities! For libraries looking to get started in programming gaming, this is a valuable resource. [Librarians] who are just experimenting with the medium will see [this] as an invaluable guide, and even those seasoned pros could use it as a handy desk reference.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781610692618
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Libraries Unlimited Inc
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 246
  • Sub Title: A Teen Librarian's Guide to Tabletop Role-Playing
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1610692616
  • Publisher Date: 17 Oct 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series
  • Weight: 454 gr


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