<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Greetings Libraryland:<br><br>A couple of questions for those of you who provide gaming consoles for public use.<br><br>We have had a Nintendo Wii for some time now and have more or less made it up as we have gone along. This was relatively simplistic as we were not really collecting many games and the ones we did were all of a family friendly nature (also not high chance of theft).<br><br>We recently purchased an X-Box 360 and got the bundle that came with Halo 4, along with a few other games that we purchased separately. I just finished setting it up (I think) but as the last console I have personally owned was/is a Playstation 2, I'm a bit unclear on how to manage all of this online stuff.<br><br>So here is what I did so far: Turned on, set up user account, set parental controls (more on that later), downloaded updates for games.<br><br>My questions:<br><br>1. We <i>may</i> be looking at XBox Live at some point, but not yet. I am assuming that a Live account cannot be registered without payment information, even the "free" trial. Would that be correct?<div>2. We <i>are</i> planning on allowing M rated games to be played by older teens (and have purchased a couple), but are planning to limit these to non-peak evening hours. Is this feasible? How do you "regulate" game ratings, if at all?</div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. We would like to get a long service life out of both the console and the games, therefore they will be used in-house. For the Wii, we have just used a sign-up sheet. For the X-box, however, we were planning to keep the games and the wireless controllers at the desk. From here, I<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>supposed we would have 3 options, one not so great - pay attention to who gets what (not so great); use a paper sign out system; or barcode the games/controllers and check them out. What do you all do?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4. If anyone has any policies in place, would you share them?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Apologies got the wall o' text, but I wanted to cover everything</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks in advance!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chapin Longden, Reference</span><br>Henderson Memorial Public Library<br>54 E Jefferson St<br>Jefferson OH 44047<br><br>http://www.henderson.lib.oh.us/<br>(440) 576-3761 phone<br>(440) 576-8402 fax<span name="x"></span><br></span></div></body></html>