This article is from the first edition of The Video Game Librarian website I published between 2008 and 2010. It was originally written on November 17, 2008.

I spotted a link to this article at GamePolitics late Saturday night and it amused me that this was first reported on the day before National Gaming Day.

According to KSL, the Eagle Mountain Library in Eagle Mountain, Utah (where the average resident is 13 years old) has partially banned video game playing on their Internet computers from 2:00 – 5:00 PM. Because of the large number of teenagers in the town, the library had become one of the most popular hangout places after school. So the partial ban was put in place for people trying to use the Internet for research at that time.

The article also states the library has received “a few complaints and a lot of thank-yous” over the ban. It goes on to say that other libraries in Utah county have even stricter policies for their Internet computer, banning games completely at all times.