Tuesday November 20th, 3:54pm-4:01pm @ Soundings Theatre

From Scrabble to Candy Crush, PlayStation to poker, games are as much as much a part of our adult lives, as they are of our childhood memories.

This project uses something intentionally and famously analogue - Dungeons and Dragons - to talk about contemporary gaming culture. As such, it offers opportunities and insights for contemporary digital GLAM. In this presentation, we'll discuss some of the things that excite us about researching and recording gaming culture: the perspectives it offers into personal narratives, how much there is out there to be captured and (most of all) the community's passion for sharing their stories. We’ll also discuss the opportunities and complexities of using oral history as a medium for collecting contemporary culture.

Hannah Benbow, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand , Research Librarian, Cartoons

Chantalle Smith, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand , Librarian