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timewasters

Bizarre Timewaster of the Day: I'll Get It!

Ever wondered what it's like to be a librarian at an institution where your patrons are incapable of finding the most basic of materials on their own? No? Me neither. But just in case you're dying to find out, the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries have put together the 'Library Arcade' (no, really), where you can test your shelving skills following the Library of Congress call number system or try your hand at a Diner Dash-esque fetch it game, where you have to keep hapless patrons happy and find appropriate materials for their "research." What sort of researcher can't use an online library catalog, I don't know. I can tell you I'd be horsewhipped by my advisors for wasting the valuable time of our librarians by asking them to find me the answer to 'Does daylight savings time really save time?'. [via Water Cooler Games]

3:30 PM on Sun Oct 14 2007
By Maggie Greene
2,539 views, 14 comments

Latest by OtakuboyT: Brings back memory of my college job...libraian. Wasn't too bad I worked weekends and evenings. more »

i play banned games

Library Offers Halo 2 Competition, People Freak

To attract a teenage readership, an Illinois library has planned a Halo 2 competition for this weekend. Minors can come and participate as long as they've had a permission slip signed by an adult. But to the National Institute on Media and the Family, that's just not enough. President David Walsh claims:
...it borders on irresponsibility for a public library to sponsor an activity for kids as young as 12 that the industry itself has said is for adults.
And while the permission slip doesn't specify the game is rated M, how many books in that library—perfectly accessible to children—hold the same level of violence, maturity or societal subversion without any designation? Ah, nevermind. Books like that are better off banned, anyway.
Critics say 'Oh no' to Halo [via gamepolitics]

12:00 PM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By Mark Wilson
2,903 views, 64 comments

Latest by aslum: Someone asked why Anne Frank was banned. It hasn't been banned to my knowledge, but it has been a target of frequent challenges. Note that not all of the books on that shelf have been successfully banned. Many have been more »

libraries

Should Libraries Offer Gaming?

Over at The Shifted Librarian blog, Jenny Levine poses this stumper: More »