Save Your Game?: Exploring Video Game Preservation in University Libraries and Archives
“Save Your Game?: Exploring Video Game Preservation in University Libraries and Archives” is a paper that distills the current challenges with and discussion around preserving video games in a university or archival space. The target audience is university librarians and archivists who are curious about beginning a game preservation program at their institutions. The paper begins with an analysis of why video game preservation is worthwhile, discusses current hazards of and pitfalls to preservation, and examines case studies of different approaches universities and archives have taken to establish video game preservation programs.
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