I am delighted to announce that CMRLS now has video game systems for loan to member libraries to use for programming! (Central Region libraries only!) We have purchased the following equipment: 

Two Playstation2 consolesDance Dance Revolution Supernova gameTwo dance padsGuitar Hero 2 gameTwo guitar controllers 

You can see pictures of them on our new Equipment Loans page at this address: 

http://www.cmrls.org/services/equipment.html 

and the request form is at: 

http://www.cmrls.org/forms/equipmentrequestform.htm 

You can borrow one or both consoles for a game program, and one or both dance pads (if you use both pads, players can compete head to head). 

I’ll be happy to give you an orientation on how to set them up if you need it. Have fun!

~Maureen at CMRLS

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has brought new life to DOPA, the Deleting Online Predators Act that died in Congress last session. Stevens has introduced what many call “DOPA Junior” as part of the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act. There’s a great explanation of the new legislation written by Anastasia Goodstein on the Huffington Post blog.

When will our lawmakers understand, in her words, that “real issues being raised by these technologies at home and at school will not be found in legislation but in education”? What do you think?