On November 6, 2025, the Curation & Exhibitions Interest Group visited the University of Chicago Library’s Charting Imaginary Worlds: Why Fantasy and Games are Inseparable and participated in a digital preservation-themed tabletop game event.

The exhibition examines the reciprocal relationship between the fantasy genre and role playing games and is part of UChicago Library’s wider Year of Games initiative to celebrate all forms of games throughout this academic year. Attendees toured the exhibit before or after the World Digital Preservation Games Event. The game event was led by UChicago Library’s digital preservation archivists and data service librarians and featured four different tabletop games that taught players various aspects of digital preservation work and concepts.   

Curation & Exhibitions Interest Group moderator Patti Gibbons and two attendees participated in the event, along with twenty UChicago library staff members.