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Adinnieken on 19 June 2013
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Max King of the Wild said:
Adinnieken said:
aikohualda said:
oh crap i just realize... they wont be able to put xbox one game in the library!!!!
yes they catalog games in the library too...
so much for preserving history using an actual copy.. i guess library will all be digital too... :( so muich for that old scented acid on a 100 year old book... or the smell of that case when you open a game... i might be old school... but i love those smell!!!!!!!


Libraries don't preserve history.  If they do then our local libraries are doing it wrong.  Libraries routinely rid themselves of books that people no longer read, selling them to patrons.

The intention of a library is to provide access to current fiction/non-fiction and reference/research materials, as well as popular media.

Our libraries here also provide access to an entire library of ebooks.  So, suggesting they can't also provide access to digital copies of games doesn't exactly work.  The question is, will the ability to access those library of games via a library be possible and if so, how?

Libraries should have a copy of the news papers archived. They should also have documents, year books, and others as well

Sadly no.  Most libraries have certain information available for a period of time, but they don't have extended archives any more.  Big city libraries and major universities, sure but your average run-of-the-mill library, no.  Actually surprising considering you can not get entire collections of both newspapers and magazines online, but they aren't available to libraries.  Then you have library systems like ours, where the religious section is larger than the science section, and where there are bibles in the reference section but no encyclopedias.

I had a classmate run into that with our local city library.  They had a magazine sub go back 20 years, but no further and no access to anything beyond it. 

What is nice here, is that we have a state-wide program where if a library somewhere in the state has it, you can get it at your local library.  There are some exceptions, and newspapers and magazines are one as well as some books, but I used the service myself and must say it was awesome!  Nothing like doing a research paper, realizing your local library has nothing for you, then realizing that all the research material you need is available to you, you just have to order it in.