Saturday is National Gaming Day @ Your Library
Books?Who needs books at a library?This Saturday is gaming day in the stacks, baby.That's because the American Library Association has declared November 15th to be the first-ever National Gaming Day @...
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Utah Library Enforces Partial Game Ban
Today may be National Gaming @ Your Libary Day, but one local library in Utah has placed restrictions on game access.Utah's KSL-5 reports that officials of the Eagle Mountain Library found that teens...
View ArticleTV News, State Officials Investigate Rock Band-Playing Librarians... But...
Omaha's Action News 3 is running an exposé on some Nebraska Library Commission employees who posted a video of themselves setting up and playing Rock Band on company time. But did the workers do...
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Nebraska State Auditor Employs Fuzzy Logic to Zing Gaming Librarians
Last week GamePolitics reported that some Nebraska librarians were under investigation by State Auditor Mike Foley (R) for - horrors! - purchasing a PlayStation 2 and Rock Band set for use in the...
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In NYC, Teens Game Their Way to a Better World
Yesterday in the Big Apple, socially-aware teens held the first-ever NYC Youth Media & Technology Festival. The event spotlighted the work of teenagers who create video games and other digital...
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Pocono Pines Library Motivates Oldsters with Wii Fun
The Clymer Library in Pocono Pines is putting a $4,000 grant it received last year to good use. The grant came from the Federal Library Services and Technology Act through the Pennsylvania’s Office of...
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NCAC and Others Protest Video Game Ban in NJ Library
Do you like playing "direct-shooter" video games?Well, whatever they are, you can't play them at the Paterson Free Public Library in New Jersey anymore. Prompted by a petition from library staff...
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Poll: Should Public Libraries Allow Patrons To Play Violent Games On Its PCs?
Last week, the Paterson Free Public Library in New Jersey decided to ban the play of what it calls "direct-shooter" games on computers at its facilities.Whatchu think about that?read more
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ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom: Libraries Should Embrace Video Games,...
An interesting editorial penned by Barbara Jones, the director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom for the American Library Association, puts the brakes on all the talk about banning video games...
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