Program Update: September 2012

Hi Everyone!

With school back in session, I thought it might be helpful to post a mini program schedule here on the blog.  There's not a whole lot going on in September, but I'm working on a few programs for later in the fall that I hope you'll all be excited about, so stay tuned!

September:
Saturday, September 1st @ 2pm = STAB Meeting
The Sharonville Teen Advisory Board (STAB) is a group of teens who meet once per month to discuss books and plan teen programs for the library.  And teens earn volunteer credit for attending!

Friday, September 14 @ 6:30pm = After Hours Movie Night for Teens
Don't forget to vote for which movie you'd like to see!  You can vote right here on the blog.

Wednesday, September 19 = International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Stop by during the day to participate in fun pirate-inspired activities and joins us for a pirate movie at 6pm!

If you have ideas for programs that you'd like to attend in the future, post a comment here on the blog, stop in at a STAB Meeting, or just find me in the library and let me know!

In other news... The Teen Scene area of the library is getting a mini-makeover!  We've been shifting things around to try and make more room for new materials.  And I may have added a Hunger Games READ poster :-)  If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please let me know!  As always, ideas are always welcome...

-Siobhan

John Carter

At August's After-Hours Movie Night for Teens, we polled the attendees as a tie-breaker and ended up watching John Carter.

The movie John Carter is based on the book "A Princess of Mars," the first book in the Barsoom series, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  In the film, John Carter's story is told to his nephew, Ned, through Carter's journal.  John Carter is a former Civil War soldier who gets transported to Mars via a medallion.  He is found by the Tharks, a group of green Martians, and learns that there is a massive war going on between the red Martian cities of Helium and Zodanga.  Through a series of events, John Carter finds the medallion he lost and is given the choice between returning to Earth and staying on Mars.

As a fan of action/adventure movies, I was looking forward to John Carter (despite what the critics have said) and I was not disappointed.  I have never read the Barsoom series, but was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't something I needed to have read in order to enjoy the movie.  While the summary does sound like something only sci-fi fans would enjoy, I recommend the movie to anyone who is up for a little fun and adventure.

Have you seen John Carter?  Have you read "A Princess of Mars"? Tell me what you thought!

-Siobhan

Life As We Know it

Title:Life As We Know It

Author:Susan Beth Peffer

Genre:Science Fiction

Rating:3 out of 5

    The book Life As We Know It is about a meteor hitting the moon and bringing it closer to the earth this causes many natural disasters like floods and volcano's. The main character Miranda and her family have to struggle to survive with a scarcity of food and water and no electricity. Almost everything thing is a challenge and there is no guarantee that you will be alive the next day. I recommend this book to anyone one who likes  a science fiction thriller and is above the age of 12.

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.