This article is from the first edition of The Video Game Librarian website I published between 2008 and 2010. It was originally written on June 6, 2008.

I stumbled across this bit of news on the LibGaming discussion group a few days ago and it is too cool not to share. Dave Carter, a librarian at the University of Michigan’s Art, Architecture & Engineering Library is working on a Computer and Video Game Archive for the library.

The Archive will be a “usable” game room that will be filled to the brim with games that can be played on in-house gaming stations as well as a full library of books on everything related to gaming. The available games and systems will run the gamut from classic PC games to the Atari 2600 to the NES all the way up to the current big three (PS3, Wii, Xbox 360).

He’s also writing about the experience of building the archive at libgames.blogspot.com. I can’t wait to see how it goes.