BiblioBouts Project

The BiblioBouts Project is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Studies. Researchers at the School of Information (SI) of the University of Michigan (U-M) have partnered with the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University to conduct the BiblioBouts Project, a 3-year project (October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2011), to support the design, development, testing, and evaluation of a computer game to teach incoming undergraduate students information literacy skills and concepts. The game will be a pervasive and unobtrusive presence beside the online tools and collections students use to do their assignments. A well-designed game could break students of their habitual research patterns: Google and the web. The game would be efficient and fun, and it could scale from one classroom to hundreds.