Children's Services Librarian
Naperville Public Library
Rebecca Strang (she/they) is a Children’s Services Librarian at Naperville Public Library in Illinois where she runs monthly gaming programs like Family Game Night, Video Game Club, Pokémon Club, and Adventurers’ Club (a kid's RPG club) and maintains a circulating board game collection. She is also the Past President of ALA's Games & Gaming Round Table and has previously taught Game Studies at Loyola University Chicago. Rebecca believes play and storytelling are essential and strives to carve places for both in her communities. She runs a local gaming group with her partner and their four cats. In her free time, Rebecca enjoys gaming, drinking tea, writing postcards, and sorting washi tape.
Rebecca has co-written a guide on running tabletop roleplaying games for kids in the library, which is published in the Professional's Guide for Venture Society, a TTRPG published by 9th Level Games. She is co-designing a TTRPG to be published in Roll for Learning: Micro Tabletop Role-Playing Games to Use in the Classroom, from Carnegie Mellon's ETC Press. She creates TTRPG fragments and tools, available at https://toplayishuman.itch.io/. Library and gaming resources can be found on her website, To Play Is Human, at https://toplayishuman.com/.
Won't You Be Our Player?: Building Queer Community with Games
Saturday, June 29, 2024
2:30pm – 3:30pm Pacific
Welcome to the Puzzledome: A Program Demo on Jigsaw Puzzle Competitions
Sunday, June 30, 2024
2:30pm – 4:30pm Pacific
Connecting for play: Outreach, instruction, and programming with games
Monday, July 1, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific