In the blog, The Shifted Librarian, she posted a blog entry about Gaming and Libraries Symposium Enthusiam. In it she makes the arguement for maintaining a video game collection or in lieu of that, a subscription to services like Gamefly.
With limited budgets and the diversity of game formats, I cannot see the justification for building a video game collection. When I think of the mission of a library, only a part of it is pure entertainment. Books, music, videos are all formats that include educational and entertainment components. Video games are almost all purely for entertainment. There are not too many educational games produced for Playstation or Gamecube. In these times of tight budgets, it is difficult to justify a gaming collection.
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