LITA’S GAME MAKING INTEREST GROUPMaking games for library users.

Pirate Information Literacy Game

Breanne Kirsch, University of South Carolina Upstate

USC Upstate• 5,500 students, 820 transfer students each year.• Transfer students miss the library instruction sessions in the first year

program.• Created a BlackBoard “inventory of information literacy skills.”• Suggestion of using a game, inspired by Mary Broussard’s Goblin

Threat Plagiarism Game.• Collaboration with Sebastian Vandelden, Computer Science

Professor.– One of his students, Cory Bohon worked on creating the game as a project

for class.– A group of librarians created a story board. – Cory used Hype on his Mac to create the pirate game this past semester. It

is now complete and in the testing phase.

http://librarygame.uscupstate.edu/

The Game

• Better than the BlackBoard Quiz.– Hopefully the game format will motivate more

students to play the game.• Follow Up

Thank You

• Pirate Game Access- http://librarygame.uscupstate.edu/

• Breanne Kirsch, Public Services Librarian, University of South Carolina Upstatebkirsch@uscupstate.edu864-503-5613