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mdo7
 Posts: 6372 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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Whew, nice to see the library is being defiant, yeah fight the power.
 
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partially
Posts: 702 Location: Oz |
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I love these community groups. They don't want to remove all M rated games, just remove the ones they don't want.
Who on earth will create these "selection criteria" and who judges them? |
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GiriOni
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Libraries carry video games? God... news to me. Maybe it's a big city thing. Cause my library certainly doesn't. It only carries a shelf of manga and a shelf of anime. Which, sadly, Evengelion manga is positioned on top of the shelf, which is located in the kids section... *sigh*
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Thatguy3331
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Same here bro, though as for this in of itself it made my day, my faith in humanity has risen a little...
and it went back down again, but in a different manner also made my day.
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KENZICHI
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Ridiculous. It's like parents these days are so lazy they can't supervise what their children watch and play. I just don't get it. You might as well tell the video game stores to stop carrying M rated games too. It's the same damn thing. Don't let your children play if you feel so strongly about this. It's not like the cover will cause them to go violent.
Also, yeah, it's weird for me to discover that games are in libraries now... not surprised though, but wow. Well it hasn't happened at the libraries here in Colorado yet lol. |
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switchgear1131
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It's good to see academic stubbornness extending beyond the books on shelves to everything in the library.
There is no way the library is going to remove the one thing that might still be bringing people to borrow stuff. I know my university library had a media floor where gaming consoles among other things were set up to help students unwind, but I've never heard of of one renting out games. |
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miyako60
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It's like Toshokan Sensou in action. Good for the Library!
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JohnathanEnder
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Speaking as a librarian, libraries have been carrying games for a while now. It's not really a "big city" thing, I work at a small -- but rather wealthy -- community in northern New Jersey, and a lot of it is based on what patrons want to see the library offer. Ours wanted video games, so that's what we offer, and we've been doing it since 2005. With regards to M-rated games, this does not surprise me. We carry M-rated games too (the Call of Duty games from Black Ops on, Skyrim, Gears of War 3 and Judgment, Halo Reach and 4, and recently Bioshock Infinite, among others), and we put them on their own designated shelf with the Adult DVDS, while the rest of the games we keep near the Juvenile DVDs. We do stress the M-rating though, and make it so that patrons cannot check those games out unless if they're adults. The kids don't like it, but the parents do, and it has not hurt our circ. |
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Spotlesseden
Posts: 3514 Location: earth |
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move to better city. |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7994 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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This story restores my faith in humanity a bit.
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Gyt Kaliba
 Posts: 712 Location: Arkansas |
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This was the first I'd heard of a library carrying games too. Then again, my local library is so pathetically small that I'm amazed they finally moved up to DVDs...
I have to give a lot of respect to this library for not caving in. It is not their responsibility to make sure kids don't check out something they shouldn't get. Or rather...okay, getting ahead of myself here. Yes, the library should only check out materials that are appropriate to the age of the person checking it out. But that's the end of their responsibility. If the parents don't want their kids checking out those materials, then...don't let them, don't check it out for them, and it's done. No library or store or anything else should have to cater to the easily offended and miss out on more rental possibilities because of it. |
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albanian
 Posts: 133 Location: UK |
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Let's begin:
"Jim Schuetz, a speaker for the citizen group, asserted that they were not looking to ban Mature-rated games, but asking the library to create "selection criteria and procedures" for which titles to carry." OK. And the librarian says: "Mature titles are only checked out to individuals who provide proof of age (17 or older) and cannot be rented via self checkout... ...The library currently chooses titles based on popularity and community requests." Can someone tell me exactly which definition of 'selection criteria and procedures' some block-headed, eye-blinkered, bowdlerising puritans can't (or won't) grasp? |
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Conorvansmack
 Posts: 33 Location: Muskego, WI |
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Huh? Adult DVDs at a library? I guess it's up to the constituents to determine. |
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streexanime
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"'selection criteria and procedures'" ?!
Really? You need a clearer definition of "We pick out best selling and popular titles?" Go to a Wal-Mart, Game Stop or any other store in America. See what they're advertising in games to sell this week, there is your process on selection! |
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Haterater
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Sounds to me like these people wanted to pick the games, and not let the community and such decide. Not a fan of that in the slightest, especially for libraries.
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