Video Games in Libraries?
Video Games are becoming more and more popular and the latest place that you will find them could be in your local library. A recent article from the Los Angeles Times states that about half of the libraries in the county have some form of video game activity at least once every month and that this has helped increase the teenage attendance of those libraries by about 50% since they started the program.
Not only are video games in libraries getting gamers in the doors but they are getting them to come back.
“A 2007 survey of 400 U.S. libraries by Syracuse’s School of Information Studies found that three-quarters of those who took part in game events returned for other services.”
This seems to be a very good way to reach out to the youth and young adults of today, after all the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow (kind of cliche i know). Finding a way to connect to them through something they enjoy to promote education seems to be a great idea. I know that if they they had a “video game night” at my local library when I was growing up I would have been a lot more likely to go.
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That’s interesting. Libraries can get much more visitors as well if there are only more educational video games made which can be as fun as those much-played games today.
Yes, I agree. The day that educational games catch up to games that are made for entertainment will be a very good day for education.