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.

Still No News

We still haven't found a new teen librarian to replace Karen.  (She was in the other day--she's having fun in her new job!)

In the meantime, please let us know if you are interested in volunteering this summer.  We're putting together the regular Summer Reading Program schedule, and if all goes well, we will also be recruiting volunteers for a special lunchtime program for kids.  (More on that when the details have been confirmed.) 

So stop in and we'll get your volunteer info updated and your name on the schedule. 

And go ahead and get yourselves signed up for the Summer Reading Program too!

Don't forget!

I know we'll be seeing a few of you as volunteers this weekend to help with the book sale, but I wanted to remind the rest of you---come and spend a little money on books and support the library at the same time!

The Friends of the Library will be having a book sale at the Sharonville Branch April 19 through April 21. That's this Thursday, 12-8, Friday 10-6, and Saturday, 10-5.

The money we raise helps pay for library programs, including all of the special events this summer for the Summer Reading Program. So a good cause on top of a good way to get some great cheap reads.

Missing Karen!

Hi all, I'm sure you've already heard that Karen is now working as the children's librarian at our Forest Park branch. We HOPE to have our new teen librarian by the middle of next month, but that won't be in time for a STAB meeting or movie night. So stay tuned, and we'll let you know for June.

Meanwhile, is anyone reading anything wonderful?

The Exceptionals
By: Erin Cashman
April 2012
Baker+Taylor

Claire hears animals thoughts in her head, but no one believes her when she told her family. After awhile she stopped saying thatm, and went to a regular high school. When she gets in serious trouble, her mom sends her to the school were people like her family, (with powers) are to be trained. What is she going to be trained for? Their she meets people that she can relate to. Out in the woulds one day she meets Dylan. Terrible things start happening like people going missing. Fter finding out about a prophecy of a person who can talk to animals. The prophecy is talking about her, and her so called powers. As she races against time, what will happen to the school, and people in it?