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		<title>Schwarzenegger vs. Video Games: No more games!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hasta la vista, video games! In 2005 the state of California enacted a law banning violent video game sales to minors. The law is now in front of the Supreme Court, an epic battle between the Entertainment Industry and the State of California.  The law, itself bans the sale of violent video games to anyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=266&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t know, the 18th was the 25th birthday of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).  This was my first console, which I didn&#8217;t get until I was around 6, meaning the system had already been out for 7 years.  My mom was the hold out, but after my father was hurt, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=248&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Banned Book Week!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week is Banned Book Week! Probably one of my favorite &#8220;library&#8221; related weeks of the year. Why? Because of all the interesting and amusing stories about how people have tried (and sometimes successfully) to ban books. Let&#8217;s just take a look at a few good ones. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=225&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>31 Flavors of Librarian: Finding the One to Suit Your Tastes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About half way through my first year as a library grad student, my mentor blindsided me with the question &#8220;What kind of librarian do you want to be?&#8221;  Kind?  There are different kinds of librarians?!  Needless to say I was floored, confused, and a little bit scared.  Less than a year ago I had decided [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=198&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning with Assassin&#8217;s Creed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction When we were asked to choose a game to play over the semester, I felt I had been given the best assignment ever.  The only problem was finding a commercial game that I had already spent considerable time with.  Assassin&#8217;s Creed was a game I had watched people play many times, but hadn&#8217;t gotten [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=174&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gaming on a College Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it. College is a perpetual state of being broke for most people. There are those lucky few that who get great jobs or have a trust fund, but most of us are barely scrapping by. When you&#8217;re face with the decision of food for a couple of weeks and the newest release, food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=114&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games in Libraries Part 2: Ye ol&#8217; Tourney</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holding gaming tournaments in libraries isn&#8217;t a new idea by far. Libraries have been a safe haven for Dungeons and Dragons nerds since it came out in &#8217;74. Before then, board gaming tournaments (chess, checkers, Scrabble, etc&#8230;) ruled the gaming space in libraries. However, there is a shift in the current trend toward video games. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=27&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games in Libraries Part 1: Libraries == Blockbuster?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it, we&#8217;ve all went down to our local video rental place, whether it&#8217;s a Blockbuster or not, and been utterly disappointed when the game that we wanted wasn&#8217;t there. Darn kids getting all the good ones, some of us have to work! So you go home, sad&#8230; hoping that soon, someone will bring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=26&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was driving by my local library the other day when something caught my eye. In huge letters on their side was &#8220;YES! WE HAVE VIDEO GAMES!&#8221; I&#8217;d lived in the area for over 9 months and this was the first time I was actually contemplating about stopping there. For many of you, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=24&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games Live: A Gamer’s Dream Concert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it, being a band geek and a gamer tends to go hand-in-hand.  Needless to say, when I heard about a concert of all video game music two summers ago, I freaked out and promptly bought tickets. Background Just a little background on the concert series. It is the lovechild of Tommy Tallarico (Earthworm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reluctantgamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8656136&amp;post=16&amp;subd=reluctantgamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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