Library Blogs

Post by Maria Bonn. On Wednesday, the Scholarly Publishing Office activated more than 225,000 "buy a reprint" links in HathiTrust, increasing the number of public domain reprints available for purchase by more than 300%.

It's been almost 2 years since the archive first opened, when our game selection was a little limited. Now we have a few more games, and our shelves look a little less barren. It's amazing how quickly collections can grow.

Now is the time to register for next week's Retro Gaming Tournament.

Wired.com has images from this weekend's Game Over 3 art show in San Francisco: "Classic Videogames Mutate in Game Over Art Show."

Today I welcome three new contributors to Eaten by a Grue. Val Waldron is the manager of the Computer & Video Game Archive, and Doug Carmichael & Sarah Raezler are our two student workers. Val, Doug & Sarah will be posting on topics relating to the archive, offering their unique perspectives on what it is like to work in one of the few academic game archives in the world.

As a reminder, further information about the CVGA can be found at the following links.

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week.

Post by Catherine Soehner. It is my pleasure to announce the public debut of PictureIt Rare Book Reader. PictureIt is a web-based animation program that gives users the sensation of turning the pages of digitized rare materials that would be otherwise difficult, if not impossible, to view or obtain. Volume 1 of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was selected as the inaugural PictureIt book.