James, The person I know who has the most experience with this (and on a large scale) is Sandy Farmer at Houston Public. She's done presentations on games in libraries and is pretty much an expert.
Norm -- Norman Howden, Ph.D. Assistant Dean, Educational Resources El Centro College 214-860-2176 [email protected] Please visit our website at: http://www.elcentrocollege.edu/library/ "It may plausibly be urged that the shape of a culture - its mores, evaluations, family organizations, eating habits, living patterns, pedagogical methods, institutions, forms of government, and so forth - arise from the economic necessities of its technology." - Heinlein, 1940 >>> On 1/30/2013 at 11:04 AM, in message <302d2154cd0ea448aef4b356e8605427078e2...@wilson.eservices.virginia.edu>, "Ball, James (jmb4aw)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > We have a professor who is teaching a class on video games and has requested > that we purchase some for the Library, which we're willing to do. We did > this for another class many years ago, before my time here as media > librarian, and I haven't heard that there were any problems, but I'd be > interested in hearing about experiences other libraries have had with > collecting and providing access to video games. For example, do you let them > circulate outside of the library? Are there licensing issues? Etc. > > Cheers, > > Matt > > ______________________________ > Matt Ball > Media and Collections Librarian > Clemons Library > University of Virginia > [email protected] > 434-924-3812 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
