Just a Reminder!

Hi Everyone!

As I'm getting situated and discovering all of the fun teen stuff we have coming up, I thought I would remind you guys as to what we have on the schedule for the next month...

Tuesday, July 31st (tomorrow!) at 2:00pm we have a DDR program, so please stop by and introduce yourselves!

Monday, July 30th through Friday, August 3rd we can all continue voting, right here on the blog, for which movie we'd like to watch at August's Teen Movie Night.  Right now it's a tie, so gather some friends and start voting for which movie you'd like to see!

Saturday, August 4th at 2:00pm we have our August STAB meeting!  You'll have the chance to let me know what you'd like to see going on at the library - and since I'm so new, this will be your best chance to really start influencing and molding me into the Teen Librarian you'd like me to be.

Friday, August 10th at 6:00pm we have our After Hours Teen Movie Night!  Like I said, right now it's a tie...

So that's what we have planned for the next month.  Of course you can always access the calendar from the website.  And please start thinking of programs/events/other details you would like to discuss at future STAB meetings because I'd really love to hear your ideas!

Hope to see/meet you all soon!

-Siobhan

Code Orange

Sorry, I'm really late posting this for you!  Sounds suspenseful.  Joan

Title: Code Orange

Author: Caroline B. Cooney

Genera: Realistic Fiction

Rating: 4 out of 5

Mitty doesn’t care about grades or really anything else. He waits till last minute to write his term paper about a disease. One day at his vacation home he finds a medical book about Small Pox, he opens and finds two scabs. He reaches and smells the scabs. While learning about Small Pox and researching the scabs it turns out he isn’t the only one who’s interested.

At Last!

Everyone, meet Siobhan, our new teen librarian.  I know, you were beginning to think we'd never have anyone to replace Karen, weren't you?

Here's what she has to say about herself:

Hi Everyone!

I’m Siobhan, the new Teen Librarian at the Sharonville branch!  I’m excited to start getting to know everyone, but in the mean time, here’s a little bit about me:

I’m originally from just outside Philadelphia, but went to college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Go Big Red!) and then headed back to Philly for grad school.  I graduated from Drexel University with my MS in Library and Information Service only a couple years ago and have been enjoying life as a librarian ever since.  After spending some time in a public library setting, I found that my absolute favorite thing about my job was the teen programming and literature.  And that brought me to Sharonville!

I like to do a whole variety of things when I’m not working, including read (obviously!), watch movies, play games, experiment with crafty things, and generally just have fun.  Back in PA I spent the past 2 years as an assistant technical director at the high school’s theater program.  That means I had the awesome job of helping to design and build the sets of the high school’s theater productions (which is really just a combination of all the things I like to do outside of work).

Some other random things about me: My favorite book is usually the book that I’m currently reading – I love getting completely wrapped up in the story, characters, and setting.  I have a black cat named Binx, a weakness for celebrity gossip, and I would like to be Indiana Jones when I grow up.

I really look forward to meeting all of you, so if you see me pretending to know my way around the library, stop me and say hi!

Really, do come in and meet Siobhan, come to our DDR program on July 31 (2:00), come to the August Teen Movie Night (vote early and often for your choice of movie to the right), and STAB members, come to the first STAB meeting of the summer on August 4. 

We're already planning some programs for this fall--stuff in October to coincide with the next Rick Riordan book and for Star Wars Reads week, and then in December, Hobbit Day.  And whatever other exciting things you and Siobhan can think of!

I just posted to the main library blog about this book, Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races, and I wanted to recommend it here, too.  It's a great work of fantasy, vivid and romantic and eerie and suspenseful, so check it out.  (Lots more details in the other post.)

By the way, the main blog does have more posts on teen stuff, too.  Look at the middle column under Categories, toward the bottom, and you'll see the link to read all the Teen Book entries. 

I hope you're all finding good things to read this summer.  Probably no STAB meeting in July, either, as we're still (still, still, still!) waiting to hear about a teen librarian for the branch, so you'll have lots of good books to talk about when you meet again.

If you like this book as much as I did, let me know and I'll recommend some more things for you.

Still hoping. Still reading.

We're still interviewing librarians for Karen's job.   We're down to a few good people! 

What have you been up to in the meantime?  Read anything good lately?

I just put a hold on Insurgent, Veronica Roth's sequel to Divergent.  If you're up for more dystopian novels like The Hunger Games, try this series. 

The first dystopian novel I ever remember reading was John Christopher's series beginning with The White Mountains, about a group of teenagers who refuse to participate in the "capping" ceremony that brings the adults in their society under the control of alien tripods.  It's an old British series.  I'm not quite as old as it is, but the advantage to libraries is that you can read old stuff, too. 

It's kind of interesting to see what's different and what's the same in our view of a terrible future society between fifty years ago and now.  I think we were more worried about machines then than we are now.  I wonder what people fifty years from now will think of The Hunger Games as a symbol of American society today?

 

Summer Volunteering

Hi all, if you would like to volunteer at the library this summer, we'd love to have you!

We have our usual Summer Reading Program volunteer work, where you help kids sign up, help them log their reading, and give them their prizes. 

This year we also have a special free lunch program that we're going to run with the Free Store Foodbank Monday through Friday for most of the summer.  Volunteers will help serve food (sandwiches, fruit, milk, that kind of thing), help with setup and cleanup, and help with program activities for the kids who come in.

If you volunteered last year, we just need you to fill out an updated set of forms with a parent's signature and drop them off.  Don't forget to let us know your availability so we can work out a schedule for the SRP booth, and let us know if you want to help with the lunch program.

If you're a new volunteer, fill out the forms and bring them by, and we'll set up an interview for you!

P.S., Some people are now volunteering during the school year, too, to help with storytime craft prep.  So if you're interested in that, let us know, too.

P.P.S, this all counts for community service hours if you need them for school!

Unraveling
By: Elizabeth Norris
May 2012
Baker+Taylor

Janelle Taylor is walking home when from the beach when a trucks come out of nowhere and hits her. She should have died have not been for Ben being there. As she wakes up Ben is standing over her. After that weird things start happening to the town that she lives in. Janelle starts falling in love with Ben but does he love her? Together they find out about a bomb that will go off causing planet Earth to explode. They race against time to save her town and family. Will it be enough?

Sam. F.