Podcast about libraries, literature, and whatever strikes our fancy. Total Length: 00:50:00 00:01:00 Playing Video Games -- 00:01:47 Games we play, and games our patrons play -- 00:12:48 Reading literacy and book tie-ins -- 00:15:36 Developing a video game collection -- 00:18:57 Using bandwidth -- 00:21:35 Video games turned into movies -- 00:22:58 How we got started in gaming -- 00:27:38 Gender and video games -- 00:40:58 Implementing programs Games mentioned: Minecraft, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Street Fighter series, Halo series, Grand Theft Auto series, Lara Croft series, Tetris, and more.

Podcast about libraries, literature, and whatever strikes our fancy. Length 1:04:43 00:00:48 Comic Books and Graphic Novels in 741.5 with JP, Ronya, and Scott - Our comic book pasts, featuring a lot of stuff from the 80's - Graphic novels in other mediums - Parsing grahic novel vs comic book vs picture book in publishing vs libraryland - How the Comics Code Authority skewed our ideas about comics - Cataloging and circulating graphic novels, etc. - The wide variety of comics available - Banning graphic novels - Comics and women - Comics as art and literature, with revisiting the Comics Code Authority - A glancing mention of manga and anime - What we are reading now 01:04:04 Stinger BINGO Titles mentioned include Maus, Ghost World, iZombie, Batman, Walking Dead, Wolverine, X-Men, Spiderman, Sandman, Fun Home, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Captain Underpants, Calvin and Hobbes, Cartoon Guide to Physics, works of Harvey Pekar, Fatale, a host of independent titles, Persepolis, Dark Knight, works of R. Crumb, Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, Scout, Y: The Last Man, Saga, Sex Criminals, Ex Machina, From Hell, the works of Shakespeare in graphic novel format, Dragonball, Ranma 1/2, Chew, Lumberjanes, Revival, Battle Pug