News item published on: 2025-10-10 14:07:00

banner reading ‘International Games Month’ in red cursive text with a swoosh underline. To the left are four overlapping playing cards in yellow, blue, green, and red, and to the right are three dice in red, blue, and green on a light background.

International Games Month is an initiative to reconnect communities through their libraries around the educational, recreational, and social value of all types of games. Cook Library is celebrating by partnering with groups across campus to host three events throughout the month of November.

World of Cards: Trading Card Event
Thursday, November 6 | 6 – 8 p.m.
Cook Library Room 209A

Join Cook Library and the new campus club, the Trading Card Games Club for a trading card event. If you have your own deck, bring it, and if you don't come join us anyway.

Pokémon, Magic the Gathering, and One Piece TCG cards will be provided for those who wish to learn to play. The event is come and go, and light snacks and beverages will be provided.

A collaboration with The Trading Card Games Club.

International Games Night
Tuesday, November 11 | 7 - 10 p.m.
Cook Library Room 209A

Join us for cultural games, food, and music as we celebrate International Education Week. Student representatives will be on hand to coach you through games from their home country. The event is come and go.

Here are just some of the games that will be provided:
• Parqués
• Ludo
• Tiến lên
• Carrom
• Chinese Checkers
• Tombola
• Cards Against Humanity
• Stiga Table Soccer
• Bagh Chal
• Dominoes
• Catan

This event is in collaboration with African Caribbean Society, Bangladeshi Student Association, Eagle Gaming Club, Indian Student Association, International Student and Scholar Services, Latinx Student Association, Muslim Student Association, Nepalese Student Association, Nigerian Student Association, Pakistani Student Organization, Spanish Club, The Nations, and Vietnamese Student Association.

Tales Without Borders: International TTRPG Night
Monday, November 17 | 6 - 8 p.m.
Cook Library Room 209A

Join Cook Library and To The Top TTRPG Club for Tales Without Borders: International TTRPG Night. It will be a fun time roleplaying and telling stories together. Light snacks and beverages will be provided.

Here are the TTRPGS that will be running:

• Grandma's Drinking Song: A game written about the Jewish diaspora during the prohibition era in the US. You write a song together as a group that's a "family drinking song" based around the roleplay scene you're participating in. It's from Doikayt: A Jewish TTRPG Anthology and is run with four players.

• Diàn Xīn (电心) Electric Heart: A cyberpunk TTRPG trying to survive in a world that doesn't want you to thrive, without losing your sense of self worth or your will to keep going. It explores the cyberpunk genre through a Chinese diaspora lens. It is run with four-six players.

• This Body of Mine, I Will Make it a Temple: A solo roleplaying game led by a game master for a group of players. It's an allegorical exploration of being trans and coming to terms with your body. Written to be an exercise in self-reflection and meditation through a fictional lens, and instead of dice you play with tarot cards.

• The Librarian's Apprentice: A solo journaling roleplay game. Your task is designed to test your skills at traversing the Library and finding information. Retrieve the six documents requested by your Librarian before the day is out and you will have completed one more step on your journey.

Registration is required for this event.

A collaboration with the To The Tabletop TTRPG Club.

International Games Month events are supported by a Game On! Grant from the American Library Association's Games and Gaming Round Table.