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Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week. I don't really get the fascination with Bayonetta, but one guy likes it enough to put it on the top games list all by himself. Also, watching people play Racquet Sports is more amusing than it sounds.

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week. Not surprisingly, FIFA stays in the lead. But Final Fantasy X? Awesome.

Our colleagues at the University of Michigan Press have released "My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft" by Bonnie Nardi. Here's the blurb.

An article on the UMHS website explores how and why video games might help the new generation of medical students to excel in their preparations for becoming doctors - everything from helping them to choose their specialties to helping them learn how to perfect surgical incisions.

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

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

When you do a search on the University of Michigan Library's web site, you get not only results from the catalog, web site, online journal and database collections, and more, you also get a librarian who is a subject specialist related to your search term. While the matching is not perfect, it provides a human face on search results.

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

The Usability Group & its Usability Task Force conducted a series of evaluations of the Library Gateway during the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 semesters. We used a number of different methods, some new to us, to conduct our evaluations, including Participatory Design, Card Sorting and Guerrilla Tests.

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