Wi-Fi, video games all part of public libraries version 2.0

Link to June 5 Capital Times article.

Opening paragraphs:

With Nintendo Wii gaming controllers strapped to their wrists, four keenly focused boys whooped it up as they battled through a game of "Super Smash Brothers Brawl."

Assorted spectators, some waiting their turn at the video game, occasionally barked out appreciative or caustic commentary.

While it might sound like a sacrilegious activity to take place in a public library, the gamers didn't draw any dirty looks from librarians, let alone the dreaded "Shhhh!" In fact, that scene is common at libraries around Madison these days. Mere feet away, other patrons of the Alicia Ashman branch library were reading quietly, oblivious to the exuberant competition behind the door of the west side library's community room.

Link to "Game On: Games in Libraries" blog, created in 2005 as a supplement to the Google LibGaming email group, a forum for discussion of gaming in libraries.