Librarygame™

Gamification for libraries

Enhance your library through play

Three images of the Librarygame Lemontree interface for the University of Huddersfield Librarygame progress bars and achievement icons Patrons can enrich the library catalogue by commenting, annotating and rating items Librarygame features a beautiful selection of achievement badges to collect
The Librarygame interface and achievement icons for the University of Huddersfield's Lemontree version
Librarygame is a library enhancement suite incorporating game mechanics Progression mechanics and achievements transform low engagement to high engagement Patrons enrich the library catalogue with their reviews, recommendations and annotations Patrons can compete with each other, earn achievements and share activity on their social streams

What is it?

Librarygame™ adds elements that make games engaging and delightful, directly into the library experience. As well as giving library users a fresh and useful social discovery interface, librarygame provides librarians with useful at a glance statistics on how their library is being utilised.

Why?

We think reading has the propensity to transform lives and Librarygame is there to help non-users turn into users and reward regular users with new ways to discover and interact through the compelling mechanics and social constructs of gaming as well as the delights of an attractive interface.

A game with deep engagement

All flavours of Librarygame are pervasive and reside on a users most used social channels. They are tailored to make users feel welcome and with some clever interaction design they meaningfully encourage them to be social in their use of their library.

Librarygame's game-like features encourage users to contribute and be active, ultimately leading them to discover new things and return for more.

Game like facets

  • Set Collection
  • Points & Achievements
  • Virtual currency
  • Friends & Messaging
  • Serendipitious Discovery
  • Competition & Leaderboards
  • Progressive disclosure
  • Reward schedules
Grow your own lemon or orange tree as you play Librarygame A Lemontree achievement on a users Facebook wall
Grow your own lemon or orange tree as you play Librarygame

Available in two finely tuned flavours

The night owl achievement The weightlifter achievement Orangetree - for public libraries

Orangetree key features

  • Fine tuned for your readership development agenda
  • Designed to engage non and low-usage users effectively
  • Publish to your library's existing social channels
  • Discover and measure what users are doing
  • An attractive and contemporary visual interface
  • Quick, easy and effective moderation
The early bird achievement Lemontree - for academic libraries

Lemontree key features

  • Embedded directly into the academic agenda
  • Helps document educational journeys
  • Reading list integration
  • Encourage and facilitate cross-disciplinary study
  • Help create annotated citation lists
  • Visualise how each department uses the library

Core Librarygame features

Librarygame is fined tuned and customised for each individual setting. We take into account the direct needs of your institution and its users.

Here are some of the core features of Librarygame regardless of the flavour:

  • Integrates with your LMS
  • Enrich your existing catalogue
  • Allow users to Rate, Review and Recommend
  • Social view for every item in your collection
  • Human powered recommendations engine
  • Realtime usage analytics
Item information view showing who has previously borrowed, commented and annotated the item Lemontree points, visits and achievements leaderboards for each school at The University of Huddersfield

How it works

Librarygame works best when it integrates directly with your library management system, pulling in borrower data and writing data back to the catalogue to enrich it.

It can also interface with a whole host of other systems like turnstiles and self check-in machines to track user interactions.

The technical hooks required to interface with your LMS are well documented and can be provided on request. We can either work with your in-house team directly or our trusted third party integrators to setup Librarygame in the shortest time possible.

A venn diagram showing where Librarygame is positioned

Find out more

Librarygame is being developed and constantly refined by us at Running in the Halls (RITH). We care about libraries and the pivotal role they play in society.

Through catering for generations of readers and learners, we think libraries have historically had a transformative effect on society and we consider ourselves a product of them!

We'd love to partner with interested libraries, individuals and LMS vendors, so get in touch and say hello.

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