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May 5, 2021 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Teen librarian Cindy Shutts shares some popular fandoms and teen programming ideas based around those fandoms
August 7, 2019 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Librarian Cindy Shutts walks us through a Star Wars themed Escape Room.
November 28, 2018 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Here are comics titles your teens and tweens will be clamoring for in November and December! Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adaptation by Gary Whitta, illustrated by Michael Welsh (Marvel, November 6). In this adaptation of the film, the Resistance has located Luke Skywalker, but the First Order isn’t going down without a fight. Collects […]
March 22, 2017 by Robin Willis
Our weekly STEM program for 3 to 18 year old patrons took a turn for the galactic yesterday as we focused on Star Wars. None of the ideas I’m about to link to are my own, but I will tell you how well they worked for us and give you some tips for success. Our […]
December 27, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I once presented at ALA with Princess Leia hair buns. I was having a bad hair day, feeling defeated, and the clock was ticking. I needed to go sit in front of my professional peers and talk about Free Comic Book Day programming. So I summoned the Force, threw my hair up in two buns […]
December 2, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I hope everyone has survived their Fall Break! As I wrote in an earlier post, Star Wars Battlefront recently came out for the holiday season and as predicted, it’s pretty popular at my library. However, it isn’t doing as well in sales because it is competing with big ticketed games like Fallout 4 and Call […]
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April 26, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I have such conflicted feelings about this year’s superhero themed Summer Reading Club. As a big superhero fan myself, I was at first incredibly excited. But the truth is, for those of us raising daughters or working with the female gender – which coincidentally makes up half of the population – it’s a bit of […]
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