Comments on: Video games lure teens into the city’s libraries http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/09/08/video-games-lure-teens-into-the-citys-libraries/ The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:33:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrick http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/09/08/video-games-lure-teens-into-the-citys-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-25343 Patrick Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:03:23 +0000 http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/09/08/video-games-lure-teens-into-the-citys-libraries/#comment-25343 It seems to me that the games they listed don't require any reading whatsoever. Games like Zelda: The Twilight Princess and any game from the Final Fantasy franchise are full of sections where the gamer must get through loads of text in order to proceed to the next section of the game. Rock Band and DDR, albeit are extremely popular, don't require any reading besides navigating through the menus to get to the games themselves. Maybe having these popular games to entice young people to visit the library is the goal in and of itself. Once the young people are in the library, maybe they'll be tempted to stay and pick up a book. It seems to me that the games they listed don’t require any reading whatsoever. Games like Zelda: The Twilight Princess and any game from the Final Fantasy franchise are full of sections where the gamer must get through loads of text in order to proceed to the next section of the game. Rock Band and DDR, albeit are extremely popular, don’t require any reading besides navigating through the menus to get to the games themselves.

Maybe having these popular games to entice young people to visit the library is the goal in and of itself. Once the young people are in the library, maybe they’ll be tempted to stay and pick up a book.

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