The Video Game Librarian

So I figured that going back to get my master's degree would change up my usual video game playing habits, my previous habits being that whenever I was not at work, I was most likely playing video games. I had no idea just how much that would change, as in...I've pretty much not played anything at all for the past five weeks. And what I have played is stuff that I can pick up, play for a short period of time, and put back down again. Final Fantasy XIII, sadly, has not been touched since classes started. I've been trying to put in an hour here or there for Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon on Wii, which is a wonderful game that I plan on seeing through to the end (thankfully, the game isn't terribly long making this easier to do than, say, FFXIII). I've been trying to find other groups or websites that deal with video games in the library, since I really hope to work with video games in the library in some capacity. One good read I've found is hosted at Gaming Target, called simply The Video Game Librarian. It's no longer updated, and it only contains 12 posts that span two years from 2005 to 2007, but it's an interesting read giving some insight on the issues a gaming-enthusiast librarian would have to deal with, like budget and what kind of titles to carry for patrons, getting the library to accept M-rated games, not to mention the advent of new systems on the horizon and which ones the library should support. 

Even though I haven't had time to play games, that hasn't stopped me from acquiring more of them. I hit up a couple of used game shops over the weekend and grabbed a couple more titles. Two o them were very cheap. One of them was less cheap. I'll let you sort out which was which.