(8 Jan 2024) When someone hears the phrase “I work with video games for a living,” there are many different careers that may come to mind: YouTubers, streamers, and coders. One job that probably will not is librarian. However, that is exactly my purview at Mississippi State University (MSU). I act as the University’s Extended Reality and Gaming Librarian. This is a new position established in September 2023. But what is an Extended Reality and Gaming Librarian and what exactly do they do? In this post, I hope to answer these questions and delve deeper into video games in an academic library setting.
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