{"id":59,"date":"2007-07-08T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T21:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/2007\/07\/08\/library-games\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T15:43:00","slug":"library-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/59","title":{"rendered":"Library Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has seen those online Orbitz ads disguised as games &#8211; you know the ones where you have hit a home run or throw a football at a target? I have to say that I do occasionally play them (sometimes longer than I&#8217;d like to admit). It&#8217;s all in the name of promoting their product or service. Well, database vendors are no exception. Wiley Interscience has developed a few fun games to play that help to get their products out there. First, there&#8217;s <strong>Ms. Stackman<\/strong>, where as the Librarian, you must move around the library to help patrons get to computers before they get you. Try it, it&#8217;s not as easy as it sounds. If you figure it out, let me know how you did it. Then there&#8217;s <strong>Stack Attack<\/strong>, which is kind of like Tetris, only with the titles like <em>Elements of Information Theory<\/em> and <em>From Genes to Genomes<\/em> as your building blocks. My best score is 312. Can you beat it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/aboutus\/game\/\">Ms. Stackman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/aboutus\/stackattack\/\">Stack Attack<\/a> from Wiley Interscience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has seen those online Orbitz ads disguised as games &#8211; you know the ones where you have hit a home run or throw a football at a target? I have to say that I do occasionally play them (sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/59\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[220,288],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-the-library","tag-fun-stuff","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}