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11/15/08
Sounds like someone needs to give Utah that same speech about kids.
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But people are constantly using them for games and social networking sites. People with actual assignments to do are SOL from all the recreational users on them constantly. I was lucky as a student because the computing program had their own labs, but sometimes I'd go into the library, wander around, up and down the rows, looking for a free PC, then give up and go to our more private labs.
I think it's cool that libraries are coming to house various mixed media, and as long as pop culture doesn't push reference material and literature off the shelves, it's a good thing. A ban on games in libraries though? Well... good. It's not an arcade. You can game almost anywhere.
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Plus, kids nowadays tend to read zero books. I don't think having a 360 on the next room when you're trying to enjoy Moby Dick will help change that fact.
11/15/08
But I agree. When I go to a library, it's to research something I can't find online, or just kick back at a table with a good book.
11/15/08
Maybe not a 360, but for a couple of kids trying to escape home/the streets/noise to sit together and play some DS/PSP? I gots no problem with that.
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Although I do agree, I'd be pissed if I had some important research to do at a library and people were monopolizing them for hours.
The problem here seems to be that they were occupied for hours and people who did want to use them couldn't. I really have no problems with this rule. You can still game, but there are times when high usage means you can't hog them for games.
11/15/08
Judging by the education and culture status in the US nowadays, people need to read more books, become interested in more mind-moving things.
Computers, need to be divided. Recreation computers, and research computers. The research ones can have a ban on installing products, or something.
Books are still the form of fiction with the best quality there is nowadays. Let's introduce more people to them before everyone starts "waiting for the movie to come out" everytime they want to know about a story.
11/15/08
I've always seen some video games go 'either way' on the education and library-worthy factor. Hell, if the library could stock 'Choose Your Own Adventures', it could certainly have an area for their visual cousins.