Comments on: Gamify Your Library Fines http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:22:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: eli http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2873 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:09:59 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2873 We’re two weeks into our fully gamified summer game. This stuff works! Don’t waste it trying to get people to adhere to circ rules, use it to encourage service discovery, community contribution and social metadata. See a player’s public page here:

http://play.aadl.org/summergame/player/594

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By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2533 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:35:24 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2533 @Dave: I do like your model – anything fun and interesting is worth a shot. I think whatever it is needs to be simple to understand and implement – or, we could implement multiple rewards models, for that matter: one for younger people and gamers for who a complex rewards system is fairly intuitive anyway, and a more basic one that is more obvious. In any case, I think something like this would be a change welcomed by many patrons.

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By: Dave Puplett http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2523 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:04:17 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2523 Fascinating – I had a similar idea a few weeks ago, along the same lines – give people incentives to play by the rules:

http://puplett.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-bring-your-books-back-on-time.html

I really think this could work!

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By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2459 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:39:38 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2459 @Meela: I think the reward could be just about anything your patrons would value – we accept purchase requests all the time, but maybe getting their name on a bookplate would be an incentive.

@Julius: That’s great – please let me know how it goes.

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By: Julius Dondi http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2456 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:58:38 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2456 hate it or like it, this idea seems good.Why not try it in our local libraries here in Kenya! Rewarding compliance to set conditions is the best method of eradicating non-compliance.Therefore Library users who fully comply with library rules and regulations should be rewarded to ward-off tendency of non compliance in our libraries.I am sure no single library is happy dealing with cases after cases of disregard to library Rules and Regulations despite the fact that it is a source of revenue for most libraries in Kenya today.For me at Gusii Institute of Technology I want to try-out Gamification as a twin method of curtailing non compliance as well as rewarding compliance to Set Rules and Regulations in the library

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By: Meela http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2450 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:17:52 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2450 I love this! I always slow down when you get those roadwork signs that say “thankyou” when you are under the speed limit.

How about giving away the chance to select a purchase for the library?

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By: Friday Reads – Birthday Edition « Matt Phillips http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2433 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:44:26 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2433 [...] Swiss Army Librarian » Gamify Your Library Fines [...]

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By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2429 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:04:32 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2429 @Tom: thank you. I like your idea of posting by letters – and I’m happy to have made the list.

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By: Tom http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2422 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:09:18 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2422 Great idea for rewarding good behavior. I posted a small blog about it for one of my G entries in the a-z April blogging challenge, thanks for the post.

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By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/31/gamify-your-library-fines/#comment-2416 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:41:25 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1731#comment-2416 @Victoria: I agree that overdue fines would have to generate a huge amount of revenue to justify the negative experience associated with them – both patrons and staff. We also have a donation jar on the counter, and many people who bring things back late “fine” themselves with a donation, which just works so much better.

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