With the goal of one day offering 150 titles for checkout across its 38 locations, Toronto’s public library has taken steps toward building a video game collection – but figures it needs $300,000 to make it happen.
And interestingly enough, from the comments:
Stanford University’s library has had games for a long time – there are even consoles you can play them on. All the current gen systems are there, as well as a few Atari.Don’t believe me? Try searching [socrates.stanford.edu] for anything from Mass Effect 2 (Call number ZMS 2523) to Katamari Damacy (ZMS 1252). Final Fantasy XIII is still on order.
This is the perks of having a professor who is a video game historian on your faculty.
Video games are certainly requested at our library, but then again, we can’t even afford the DVDs all of our patrons want us to get.
Library Seeks $300K in Funding for Video Game Collection – Culture – Kotaku.