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TPiB: Marshmallow Madness
Food Challenges, Marshmallow Madness, Marshmallows, Programming, Quirk Books, Teen Programming, TPIB
|Although Marshmallow Madness by Shauna Sever mostly involves various recipes for cooking your own marshmallows, I couldn’t help but think of all the fun programming you can do around the theme of marshmallows. One of the most popular programs I ever hosted involved putting a buffet of various sweet food items in front of a […]
Earlier this year, I put together for a Pop-Up/Mobile Makerspace. Two of them actually. One is LEGO based and one is Duct/Duck Tape based. It had to be mobile because we have a small physical space and we needed to be able to pull it out and put it away so it wasn’t hogging up the […]
My MakerSpace Journey at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County Small Tech, Big Impact: Designing My Maker Space at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH) (School Library Journal article, February 2016) 1 Year Later, What I’ve Learned The Very Beginning Previous library locations My Original Mobile Makerspace […]
Read More About Hunger Action Month at TLT and Feeding America Readers of this blog know that we have a heart for hunger and poverty in the lives of our teens. In fact, as I write this post, yet another job situation in my personal life means that without drastic changes, we will be unable […]
TPiB: 10 Things To Do With a Blank Canvas, part 1
Apps, Art, Blank Canvas, Canvas, Instagram, Programming, Technology, Teen Programming, TPIB
|One of my recurring programming themes is Renovate Your Room. We are actually in the midst of doing this right now as the Tween has decided that she no longer wants a princess room (sob, why do they grow up so fast?). Now we are creating a new room with a Paris/Doctor Who theme. My […]
The Doctor has been running through time and space for 50 years this year. We’re celebrating all things Doctor Who related with a series of posts, book lists, events and more. You can find it all here at Doctor Who Central Doctor Who Week PostsThis is a joint event with Maria Selke at Maria’s Melange, […]
TPiB: 5 Things To Do With Post-Its In Your Library
Booktalking, Displays, Poetry, Programming, Teen Spaces, TPIB
|With only a few minutes and a couple dollars, you can do some really creative and engaging things. Check out these ideas, take a look around your space, grab some sticky notes and see what you can do! Encourage teens to write poems to share on a wall or window, or encourage them to copy […]
Have you gotten your August 2013 issue of VOYA yet? There are several articles in there about creating teen makerspaces in your library. I actually just wrote a proposal at my library to create a Mobile Makerspace at my library. Why mobile? We are a smaller branch with limited space, so I can’t create a […]
Program FAILS: Another thing I didn’t learn about in library school.
Program Fails, Programming, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|It was a Friday afternoon – my day off – and I was in a panic. I had to set up for my big summer program, an open mic night, and things were falling apart, starting with the fact that I had no key with which to let myself in to the library for this […]
The Simon Teen Tastemakers Event at ALA: What the teens said and how you can use this idea as a program
Book Covers, Programming, Pulse It, Simon and Schuster, Simon Teen, Teen Involvement
|At ALA 2013 this year, Heather and I took a group of teens to a Simon Teen event that was really quite genius. In fact, it would make a fun programming idea. TLT coblogger Heather Booth lives in the Chicago area, so she was on the local events committee. One of the things that she […]
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