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		<title>Show Me the Awesome: Immersive play in the 21st century library</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 03:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! Some of you visiting today will be regular readers of this blog; others may be here as part of Show Me the Awesome: 30 Days of Self-Promotion for libraries and librarians, a great project to help librarians around the world to celebrate their work. So if you don&#8217;t know me, this is the Big [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1374&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City of Souls: Gaming and Augmented Reality in Auckland Libraries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Auckland Libraries has just launched its first online game, City of Souls &#8211; an interactive zombie adventure for ages 14 and over. Written by my colleague Danielle Carter using the free Twine game design software, City of Souls takes place in the same universe as both our Tupu Youth Library zombie siege and the recent [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1381&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#039;s a Library?: Written by a man rich enough to live on W. 53rd St. who&#039;s never been to the library and Googles everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from The Magpie Librarian: A Librarian&#039;s Guide to Modern Life and Etiquette: There are several things you can count on in this world: Every now and then, the New York Times will write a 10 years too late article about hipsters and Brooklyn; someone will start an essay about graphic novels with the phrase "Comics! [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1379&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 09:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I alluded to my busy Auckland week in Friday&#8217;s post announcing my New Zealand Book Domino Challenge &#8211; for which the prize is cake, so if you are a Kiwi librarian and feeling adventurous, please join in. Last Saturday saw Auckland Libraries take their services into the city&#8217;s comic stores for Free Comic Book Day, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1369&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Kiwi Book Domino Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of adventures to report this week, but it will all have to wait until Monday. For now, I want to repeat a challenge I&#8217;ve set New Zealand&#8217;s librarians on Twitter. A couple of years ago, the amazing Arizona retail chain Bookmans made a promotional video with an elaborate sequence of book dominoes. There&#8217;s been a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1366&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From paints to puddings &#8211; Art and sensory play in Parkes Library, New South Wales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Libraries need to understand literacy in the broadest sense – exploring all of the senses in the way kids and teens relate to the diverse services they have to offer.&#8221; There&#8217;s coverage of some amazing work from my colleagues in Parkes, New South Wales over at the Library as Incubator Project.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1362&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Librarians in comic book stores &#8211; Free Comic Book Day and Star Wars Day in Auckland, New Zealand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 01:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Librarians in Auckland ventured into comic book stores to celebrate Star Wars Day and Free Comic Book Day by issuing memberships and loaning items from their collections. More soon, but in the meantime here&#8217;s Twitter coverage via Storify. [View the story "Auckland Libraries goes mobile for Star Wars Day/Free Comic Book Day" on Storify]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1358&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are New Zealand libraries letting their enemies write &#8220;the final chapter&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A local politician in Marlborough, New Zealand, has suggested ditching the district&#8217;s libraries in favour of distributing e-readers to residents. The Kiwi TV show Breakfast on One reported this news in a piece titled &#8220;The final chapter for libraries?&#8221; Although Kiwi librarians are attempting to push back with the Twitter hashtag #morethanbooks, responses have tended to focus [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1346&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://matthewfinch.me/2013/04/28/zombies-at-tupu-library-south-auckland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday in Tupu Youth Library, South Auckland, I ran an interactive live-action zombie event for teens on their school holidays. The &#8216;survivors&#8217;, aged from 12 to 18, found themselves besieged in a meeting room while zombies feasted on hapless victims outside. Teens made barricades from furniture, used library resources to plan their escape from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1336&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Library Chat Podcast &#8211; on Nerf guns, literacy and boisterous play</title>
		<link>http://matthewfinch.me/2013/04/21/library-chat-podcast-on-nerf-guns-literacy-and-boisterous-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week you can find me talking about libraries, literacy, and immersive play on Corin Haines&#8217; Library Chat podcast. Corin is head of digital services with my current employers at Auckland Libraries in New Zealand, where I&#8217;ve been encouraging youth librarians to embrace play, performance, and forms of literacy which needn&#8217;t involve books on shelves. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewfinch.me&#038;blog=21331099&#038;post=1301&#038;subd=booksadventures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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