Shush! We're Trying to Play Guitar Hero in Here

Today's medianote comes from a Los Angeles Times story about the growing use of video games in libraries. As public libraries try to redefine their role in the community, some are embracing interactive media (video games) as an emerging mass medium that is particularly attractive to adolescent and teenage males, who are exactly the people that libraries have had trouble drawing in with paper books.

But the question remains: Do video games have any legitimate place in a library?

Gabcast! Club MediaNote #38