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[3rdragon]

I got my login information for my summer internship last week, and today I poked around at it. One of the links on the navigation bar is for Library, so of course I clicked on it. I'm going to be working in that library this summer, and I wanted to see what sort of library it is, so I did a subject search for Fantasy. And I got hits. Some of them things I might want to read. They appear to have some sort of arrangement with the McNaughton people, who deal with recent books for the FLP - that is, the Free Library of Philadelphia - and there's also a decent collection of children's books in "curriculum lab - juvenile fiction." So I might not be able to get to those, but at least they're there. However, the crowning find of this little search (so far, at least) is this:
Gaming As Culture Essays On Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games, Edited by J. Patrick Williams, Sean Q. Hendricks and W. Keith Winkler
This sparked my interest, so I clicked on it and discovered that it lists the essays in question in its little blurb.

-- Introduction: Fantasy Games, Gaming Cultures, and Social Life / J. Patrick Williams, Sean Q. Hendricks, and W. Keith Winkler
-- The Role-playing Game and the Game of Role-playing : the Ludic Self and Everyday Life / Dennis D. Waskul
-- Incorporative Discourse Strategies in Tabletop Fantasy Role-playing Gaming / Sean Q. Hendricks
-- Social Events and Roles in Magic : A Semiotic Analysis / Csilla Weninger
-- Consumption and Authenticity in the Collectible Strategy Games Subculture / J. Patrick Williams
-- Desktop Conquistadors : Negotiating American Manhood in the Digital Fantasy Role-playing Game / Kevin Schut
-- Playing With Identity : Unconscious Desire and Role-playing Games / Michelle Nephew
-- The Business and the Culture of Gaming / W. Keith Winkler
-- Online Gaming and the Interactional Self : Identity Interplay in Situated Practice / Florence Chee, Marcelo Vieta, and Richard Smith
-- Invoking the Avatar : Gaming Skills As Cultural and Out-of-game Capital / Heather L. Mello
-- Vicarious Experience : Staying There Connected With and Through Our Own and Other Characters / Tim Marsh

I need to find and read this book. I don't even know if I have a library card there, but I need to read this book. I could read it on my lunch break.

There's also one on contemporary women's fiction and the fantastic that might be interesting.

Also, the server for the e-mail client is camelot.