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Public Library's Black Ops Tournaments Protested
The Sacramento Public Library has been hosting Call of Duty: Black Ops tournaments to try to get young men into the building with some success, but two groups recently protested the library's strategy. "We shouldn’t be encouraging this kind of stuff. The public library has a moral authority; it should be about learning, not learning to kill,” Veterans For Peace chapter president John Reiger told the Sacramento News & Review. Another group, Grandmothers For Peace, joined the veterans in condemning what the library is calling "Nerd Fest."
The library's position is that multiplayer Black Ops is about teamwork more than being a celebration of violence, and that the evolving nature of U.S. society's media consumption demands a re-thinking of the assumptions of how a library services its community.
Where do you draw the line in what is appropriate for a public library? For extra credit, how would you make your local library more awesome (in a way that wouldn't make your grandmother ashamed)?
[via Gamasutra]
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