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 study computers games for solving the problem of teaching undergraduate students information literacy skills and concepts. We have designed, developed, and deployed BiblioBouts, an online social game that covertly teaches students how to do library research while they go about the business of completing a research-and-writing assignment. We partner with instructors and librarians to deploy BiblioBouts in both academic and information literacy courses and use evaluation results to improve the game. BiblioBouts is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Studies (IMLS). Please message us at info@bibliobouts.org for more information.