Overdue books? DDR those fines away!

Written by Jim Squires

Sunday, 21 January 2007 16:34

We seem to be on a bit of a library kick here at theBBPS lately. Earlier this week we posted about Wii's in libraries, and now we have the following story about a teen librarian making the patrons sweat out their fines. Courtesy of The Shifted Librarian;

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a teen librarian who keeps Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) set up all the time so she can invoke it as need be. For example, if a teen has overdue books, she will dance-off against the person, and if the teen wins, the librarian will waive the fines.
In addition, when the kids get into squabbles amongst themselves, she tells them to take it to the mat and dance off against each other. It's a great way to channel some of their energy.
Another librarian talked about using DDR for indoor recess at school when the weather is bad.
Lots of great ways to use gaming in positive ways.

I actually have $53 in library fines from 1995 that keep haunting me. There's nothing more embarrassing than having to use your wifes library card due to book charges you rang up in the tenth grade.

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