When I had the Altered Book Program in June, there were many of you who asked me to have another program and to have it soon!
Well, Altered Books II, is next Thursday, October 15th from 4 to 6. If you are interested you must call 797-4528 to register.
Remember, if you did the program in June, bring your book with you and continue working on the inside. All supplies are included and the program is free. But there is a limit. So, call today and reserve your place.
For any of the teen volunteers who didn't know, I am trying to do a major shifting (of books) in the Junior Library. Once this is complete, there will be more room for the books that are there and to order more books. The problem is that it is taking forever. If you have some free time, call (797-4528) or email me your schedule. Perhaps you will be available when I am here and you will be able to help. Remember, however, I am not always here, but I can adjust my schedule. I really need this project completed..
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Unigo is a new platform for college students to share reviews, photos, videos, documents, and more with students on their campus and across the country. The new Assistant Director of the library sent the link to me, and I thought some of the juniors might find this interesting if not helpful. Personally, I found the featured video really entertaining. I was a bit disappointed in the BC videos, but I used a picture my my Alma mater anyway.
I also found a link to U.S.News & World Report's 2008 YouTube college video contest. The theme was "Why My School Rocks!" Have many of you already seen these things? |
| January is Nutmeg Book Award Voting Month. You can vote for your favorite Nutmeg teen title in Danbury Library or your School Media Center. Have you decided which is the one you liked best? Here is the list. The Nutmeg and the Teens Top Ten are the only two book awards where you make the final decision. So exercise your right, and vote! If you can't make it into the Library, email me dharrigan@danburylibrary.org with your name, grade, school, and favorite title. I'll fill out the form for you. Click here to see all the nominated titles. |
Don't even try and act like you already knew this either.
I got this in an email. Who ever looks at the end of an aluminum foil box? You know when you try to pull some foil out and the roll comes out of the box. Then you have to put the roll back in the box and start over. The darn roll always comes out at the wrong time.
Written on the end of a Reynolds foil box are the words: Press here to lock end.
Right there on the View image end of the box is a tab to lock the roll in place. How long has this little locking tab been there? Generic brands of aluminum foil and plastic wraps have one, too.
I can't count the number of times the Saran wrap roll has jumped out when I was trying to cover something up.
I hope I'm not the only person who didn't know about this. I will say this though, when I tried it last night, it was really hard to push open. Does anyone else have this problem?
Happy New Year!
Did you know that First Night Danbury is being held on Wednesday, December 31st from 4 to 8? You can buy buttons at a variety of places including City Center Danbury or the Danbury Library.
Anyone wishing to volunteer can call the toll free number (1-888-588-7880). More information on volunteering can be found on the First Night Danbury website.
Happy New Year!
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Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Karenga stressed the indispensable need to preserve, continually revitalize and promote African American culture. If you want to learn more about this unique holiday, visit some of the links above. And let me know what you think.
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School begins for most of you on Thursday. You may not have time to waste after that. If you have not seen the Wordle web site, I am sure you will be able to waste some time there. The program was created by a guy from IBM and there is no charge. What the program does is take what you have written and count the number of times a word occurs. The program randomly takes the words from a text and mixes them up. The more times it occurs, the larger the word is. The picture can be edited with different color schemes and fonts. Check it out. And enjoy for last few homework free days.
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Many of you participated in the "Team Read" Summer Reading Program.
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Does the world know how awesome Danbury Library teens are? Teen Volunteers have put in over a thousand hours just this summer. And many of them will continue to come in to help before they go back to school and keep coming in to support programs all school year.
Did any of you see the article with pictures in the Danbury News Times on Sunday? Danbury Library teens were interviewed and spoke well. I, for one, believe I am privileged to work with the teens at the Danbury Library. |
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Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer has been elevated to the status of books that are hyped and qualify for release events like those for Harry Potter. All over the country next Friday night, fans will gather in book stores dressed as their favorite characters and wait for midnight when the book goes on sale. Last February Knopf Books moved the release date of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr, the third in the Inheritance series to Friday, September 20th.
This type of marketing is great for publishers, but booksellers are not as happy. The publishers, after all, don't pick up the cost of the release events and don't care if the release date conflicts with other events or summer staffing problems. If release events are more frequent, could the excitement on an individual titles dwindle to "mah, that again?" Nonetheless, fans of these two books want the book immediately. Don't forget to put a hold on the copies in the library catalog. I check the hold numbers to determine if more copies should be ordered.. Comment here or email me with your thoughts.
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Many of you are writing stories, poetry and novels. I am sending you a link to TeenInk for anyone who does not know how to get their work published. Also, you can checkout what other teens are writing. There is a copy of Teen Ink in the magazine section of the Young Adult area on the second floor. Also, I would love to publish your reviews here on the TeenZone website. Email me.
Don’t be shy. Share your talent.
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On, Thursday, March 20th, City Lights Digital made a film for the Barnes & Noble web program, Book Obsessed. This short film is about Young Adult Literature. The production manager chose to interview some of the teens from the Danbury Library Galley Book Discussion Group, which is only one of fifteen groups in the country. |
So, I was browsing through Wired.com today and I happened to come across a very, very, very interesting article.
Basically, a Norwegian boy survives from a Moose attack by "feigning death" which he learned from World of Warcraft.
Being a seasoned World of Warcraft player who played a few years ago before "retiring", I felt that this was such an amusing and outragous story. "Feigning death" in WoW is a Hunter's ability which literally has the hunter feign death when he/she is being attacked. To think such a useful trick in a game would be useful to survive in real life.
Thoughts: When I first saw this article, I was laughing hystericallly. Probably because I used to play World of Warcraft. How ridiculous is it when you start using skills, abilities, etc. originally from a game and applying them to your own life. Fortunately the young boy was able to escape being injured, but I sort of feel that it is amazing what some people can do... This definitely brings up the idea that video games are not completely useless (hehe) and that people can really do some outragous things, especially children.
Anyway, what are your thoughts, opinions, and ideas on this. Do you think that video games can really help people out of life or death situtations? You decide.
Maybe we should train children to learn special skills from video games so that they can use them in life. That way children can have a way to combat against moose.
-Entry by James Ngo
| I am sure you all join me in thanking James for coming to our November 5th Teen Council Meeting to help clear up questions about the TeenZone Blog. Unfortunately, I am not sure many of you realize that you can start original strings to discuss movies, books, music or anything else you might like to talk about. Many of you are making your comments to different topics here on the comment area. If, however, you want to start a discussion, just email Mrs. Harrigan and she or James will put that up for you. If you want to comment on your own blog entry, please do so. Note that both James and Mrs. Harrigan have commented on their own blog subjects. |
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Do you want to come to the library some Friday night after we close to watch a movie? Even if you have already seen the movie, you can enjoy seeing a movie with your friends. And we provide the snacks.
Unfortunately, I am not sure what movie to show. So far, the most common movie suggestion from the Teen Council was License to Wed and Transformers. Also, you need to let me know if Friday nights are good for you. I am thinking of doing this on Friday, November 9th. Make your comments here or email the teen librarian |
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| Did you know that they are making a movie of "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman? The movie web site is really cool. You can pick your own daemon based on a few questions. I did it twice. The first time I got a monkey. The second time I got a the Fox Daemon Boreallus. It was really fun and I am definitely looking forward to the movie. As with many teen books, when they make the movie the emphasis is often on the adult(s) who often had very minor parts in the book. It looks like this movie is very much about Nicole Kidman who plays Mrs. Coulter. The movie doesn't come out until December. Let me know what you think of your daemon. |
| Kate is the new head of technology for the library, and she just created a MySpace for Danbury Library. And you have got to seen the Danbury Library YouTubepromotional video. I hope you will check it out. She also offered to run a program for teens on how to pimp myspace. If you are interested let me know. Also, let me know what you think of the Danbury Library MySpace. Thanks... |
Many of you are writing stories, poetry and novels. I am sending you a link to TeenInk for anyone who does not know how to get their work published. Also, you can checkout what other teens are writing. There is a copy of Teen Ink in the magazine section of the Young Adult area on the second floor.
Don’t be shy. Share your talent.
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