Robert Smith

Twitter

rosmith11

Research Interests

Twitter feed:

• @rosmith11 Canada
• Subject Specialist for Science & Engineering, Sociology & Anthropology Carleton University Library Ottawa Canada. Updates and posts expressed here are my own.

Presentations and Publications

• 2009 Fun and games: library promotes game literacy: https://library.carleton.ca/research/collection/games
• 2009 What’s your pleasure? Carleton library creates recreational reading program: https://curecreading.wordpress.com/
• 2012 CLA introduced a new award at this conference for Best Poster. The winners were Emma Cross and Robert Smith for their poster “Power Up! Building a Game Collection in an Academic Library: the Experience of Carleton University Library”: https://curve.carleton.ca/system/files/faculty_staff_research_publication/5eb1380b-c851-4d80-8930-1df39c7e93ae/fac_staff_res_pub_pdf/9c2da6103ac7830cb724aec01af4392c/crosssmith-powerup.pdf
• 2013 "More than Mario Kart: games and game-based learning at Carleton University Library": http://open-shelf.ca/130101-ocula-video-games-carletonu/
• 2013 CLA National Conference and Trade Show "The Evolution of Gaming at Academic Libraries": https://prezi.com/supsungb2uil/the-evolution-of-gaming-at-academic-libraries/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
• 2014 OLA Poster: "Level Up! Designing a Gaming Lab at Carleton University Library": https://dysartjones.com/2014/02/ola-poster-level-up-designing-a-gaming-lab-at-carleton-university-library/
• 2014 Spring Conference
• 2015 Creative Collaborations! Development of Game Services in Ontario Academic Libraries
• 2015 The protean challenge of game collections at academic libraries: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13614533.2015.1043467#.ViliYE3lu70
• 2017 My interview on local radio station The Mighty 93.1CKCU about the Library’s emerging technology collection. The interview begins at 1:19 and ends at 5:15: https://soundcloud.com/capital-news-online/midweek-march-1-2017