~Games and simulations are great ways to learn. Over the years, I've learned a lot from playing games, from geography in Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, to Ancient Egyptian history in Pharaoh. Library Science is an interesting area where simulations could be of value. Here are two library arcade games I've found on the Internet, developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
The first game is titled "I'll Get It!", and is a reference librarian simulation. The second, "Within Range", teaches the Library of Congress classification system, which is used by most academic libraries*. Feel free to try them out, and see how well you'd work in a busy library!
To play the games, click here, then select which game you want to play.
(* - but not Duke University libraries, for some reason, which still use Dewey Decimal...)
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