Noise please

Feb 19 2008

Libraries in Michigan are abandoning the traditional rules of silence in an attempt to attract a younger audience.

Video game events at public libraries are drawing crowds of teenagers, including about 100 competing monthly at "Guitar Hero" at the Rochester Hills Public Library, near Detroit.

"Getting teens to come to the library is right up there with getting them to go to church: It’s not exactly the first place they want to go," Christine Lind Hage, library director, said.