| Description | The four developers of Collect/Connect have worked with teams of student programmers to develop beta versions played singly or in groups of 3 or 4, in person on a 6' touchscreen, and virtually on hand-held devices. Our challenge: to create a digital board game that would make students interested in making new discoveries and exploring connections between intriguing finds at the University of Michigan libraries and museums. The 20 slides of this pechukucha microtalk would show how the Cambodian sculpture "Apsara Warrior" at the UMMA has been connected to the "formally unusually book" about KKK-themed "The Day of the Rope" through the keyword "lethal," and to the pretty, 19th-century arsenic-laced wallpaper sample from Kalamazoo stored safely in library vaults. We will show how Collect/Connect has brought librarians, instructors, and students out of their enclosed spaces and helped them see what they have in common with others beyond the usual categories. |
