The Ann Arbor District Library has had great success staging videogame tournaments, which can appeal simultaneously to children, teens, families and seniors.  Eli Neiburger has tips for producing these events, including soliciting advice from local experts and borrowing equipment to reduce overhead costs.

The Ann Arbor library uses a website to help organize and manage their tournaments.  You can see it at http://www.aadl.org/aadlgt .  The framework and web tools will be made available at http://gtsystem.org.

Eli Neiburger is the author of Gamers ... in the Library?!: The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages.  In March he will be presenting workshops at two NTRLS libraries.  See the Continuing Education page at www.NTRLS.org for details.

Kathryn Sturtz and Vivienne Beckett from the Alamo Area Library System, discuss tips on how to use some advanced Google tools.

Kathryn discusses various ways to use advanced search options within Google to get a more defined result.  Vivienne discusses the following Google tools that librarys may find useful:

 - Google Book Search 
- Google Scholar 
- Google Sketchup 
- Google Earth