[game_preservation] List of libraries/archives that take donations?

[Judith Haemmerle]

Don't forget the museums!  We get very few donations of relatively current
(last 5 years or so) games, for example, and there are certainly a lot of
holes in our collection.

Judith

Judith Haemmerle, Executive Director
Digital Game Museum
3553 Ryder Street
Santa Clara, CA 95051
http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org




On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Mceniry, Matthew
<Matthew.mceniry at ttu.edu>wrote:


>  I've been discussing the idea of a video game collection with colleagues

> here at Texas Tech, and we are looking to get it off the ground during the

> summer. If you have anything left in terms of software after all the more

> established institutions have been serviced we wouldn't mind taking what

> you're unable to distribute.

>

>

>

> Matt McEniry

>

>

>

> *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org [mailto:

> game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Frank Cifaldi

> *Sent:* Monday, March 31, 2014 2:40 PM

>

> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG

> *Subject:* Re: [game_preservation] List of libraries/archives that take

> donations?

>

>

>

> Yeah, I really don't want to make a huge project out of this, I'm just

> asking the group to throw out some names of places that might benefit from

> these so I can start organizing. I'm obviously not going to send packages

> to everyone, but if there are like ten or fifteen places that would clearly

> benefit I'm happy to send out care packages before figuring out what to do

> with the excess. Thanks!

>

>

>

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Alex Handy <alex at themade.org> wrote:

>

> Yikes, lord no. That's going to be a big list, and a big project. We

> should use some sort of wiki, or something along the lines of

> hackerspaces.org: that is a big editable list of preservation

> institutions and their addresses...

>

>

>

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Frank Cifaldi <fcifaldi at gmail.com>

> wrote:

>

> Yes, I'm aware of The MADE and Stanford, I'm asking the group if there

> might be institutions and archives and universities I might not have

> thought of that I should send some of these to. My plan right now is to

> inventory and try to get one of everything to the places that need them. I

> doubt either of you need 200 copies of Shellshock: Nam '67 or Project

> Snowblind.

>

>

>

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Alex Handy <alex at themade.org> wrote:

>

> Frank, bring it to the MADE and we'll take whatever's left to Henry.

>

>

>

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Frank Cifaldi <fcifaldi at gmail.com>

> wrote:

>

>  Hey group,

>

>

>

> This is probably one of those things that we should be formally putting

> together anyway but, for now, does anyone want to help put together a list

> of places that could use software, mainly for PC, PS2 and Xbox? I have a

> U-Haul's worth of software from Eidos from around that era (and slightly

> before on PC) that I saved from being dumped, I want to make sure it all

> goes to the right homes.

>

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