Wii coming soon to a library near you!

We have an amazing room at Westerville Public Library for gamers. The room opened one year ago today, and features to large screen televisions mounted to the wall and attached to gaming systems (today a GameCube and Playstation). Simple furniture and a beautiful once-exterior brick wall give the room a hip-loft like appearance.

We loan controllers and games to be used with the systems. They are hugely popular with our teens, but yes we have found adults using the room, too. Usage continues to grow, and we have seen our circulation for teen cardholders increase alongside the popularity of the room.

In the next few weeks, we will be looking at phasing out the GameCube in favor of the oober-popular Wii. It'll be fun to watch our customers dive into the new system.

Two lessons that we have learned are... 1) Sound proofing the room is a good thing if feasible and 2) Plan on investing in controllers. They do not have a long life cycle with this type of revolving use.

If you are looking at such a space at your library, go for it!