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The article reports on the author's initiative to design and share fun, paper-based math games for diverse age groups, utilizing tools like LibreOffice Calc, and details the evolution of the Pairs Math Game, its varied versions, and potential uses in educational and community settings. The author also emphasizes promoting playful conversations about numbers and fostering a sense of agency in students to invent their math questions.

The article focuses on the behavioral self-modification based on how an entity is measured and can lead to unintended consequences, such as gaming the metrics; and mentions that instances of gaming research impact metrics used to artificially inflate the level of impact of a given paper, author, journal, or other entity are well-documented.

The article offers information on the use of social media to promote Cumberland University's Vise Library. Topics discussed include starting scavenger hunts to make people come to library; starting scrawl wall to make people give some creative and meaningful answers; and creating a selfie contest social media campaign in library.

The article explores A 2017 Pew Research Center study (pewresearch.org/facttank/2018/09/17/5-facts-about-americans-and-videogames) found that 72% of men and 49% of women between the ages of 18 and 29 often or sometimes play video games. Video and mobile gaming is a growth industry, as evidenced by the nearly 2.7 billion mobile gamers reported worldwide in 2021, up 13.3% from 2019 (techjury.net/blog/mobile-gaming-demo graphics).

The article reports on virtual volunteering, or helping others without getting off the couch. The author describes many websites and sends out their information that she says could make the world a better place. She says, for instance, that someone who lives near a stream and carries an iPhone can monitor his local waterway by downloading a free application that takes a photo and approximates water flow and amount of trash from http://creekwatch.researchlabs.ibm.com.

The article exploresI'VE NEVER been much of a gamer. Growing up, I remember playing card games, particularly poker, with my parents. I won often enough to believe I excelled as a poker player. Poker face? Sure. Only as an adult did I realize they probably let me win. I know I played other board games as a child because I still have some of them.

The article describes electronic books (Ebooks), described as information easily accessible on-the-go. It describes several CD-ROMs, including Software Toolworks' The Animals CD-ROM, the Microsoft Bookshelf, and Minnesota Educational Computing Corp.'s (MECC) Oregon Trail. It discusses the involvement of Bob Stein, the director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, in the creation of the 21st-century book.

The article outlines some ideas about the potential for integrating for gaming with information literacy. First of all, it is important to recognize that gaming is not necessarily all about electronic or digital games. As an example, librarians at Williams College in Massachusetts challenge first-year students to solve the mystery of a rare book theft at the college by applying database search skills. Another possibility is playing evidence-based games, such as those being used at medical schools. Students could be instructed to properly diagnose a patient's symptoms using health databases, or perhaps to fix a car using the library's automotive technology resources.

The article offers a look on the potentiality of gaming in elementary education. The first-person shooter is the form of gaming that has the least application to education. The SIMS series has become one of the most popular gaming software in the 1990s due to the inclusion of educational standards in the game. A Multi-User Virtual Environment Experiential Simulator, called River City, has been created by Chris Dede and Diane Ketelhut of Harvard University and Kevin Ruess of George Mason University in an effort to enhance middle school students' motivation and learning through digitized museum resources.

The article reports on the Apps for Library Idea Challenge being launched by Elsevier B.V. in 2011, which is a contest engaging the community in creating SciVerse application ideas. It says that Elsevier is inviting librarians to submit app ideas for the SciVerse platform as part of the contest. According to the author, the contest focuses on apps that solve the challenges of search and discovery for researchers and librarians. The hackathons sponsored by the company are also discussed.