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BookTok Trends in the Library, by Lisa Krok
Teen Librarian Lisa Krok walks us through some of the most recent BookTok trends and shares how we can use them to promote books in our libraries
When Truth Beats Fiction, a guest post by Alex Perry
I thought I was setting the story just barely beyond our current technology to hook my readers with cutting-edge science. I didn’t expect for science to surpass my book before it came out, but I’ve never been happier to be wrong.
A Final Season, a guest post by Tim Green
Tim Green's 40th book features a father with ALS, which Green also has. Here he talks about football, his diagnosis, and adaptive writing technology.
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Bullies, best friends and phones: Will Covid shift the balance toward real-world socializing? a guest post by Sheila M. Averbuch
Will the enforced isolation that Covid-19 mandates be the thing that prompts young people to finally favor real-world meets?
MakerSpace: Making T-shirts with Infusible Ink
Want to know a new, cool way to make t-shirts with teens in a makerspace? Try Infusible Ink!
Digital Media: A Remix Tutorial – How an Old Photo Becomes Something New
How do you use digital media to take something old and turn it into something new? Here's a digital media walk through to show you how easy it is.
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Digital Media: Using Photo Apps to Make Pride Photos
Celebrate Pride during the month of June by creating rainbow effect photos using digital media.
MakerSpace: DIY Games
We host a monthly teen videogaming program at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County and we recently bought a Nintendo Switch to add to our array of video gaming equipment. I’ll talk more about the Switch soon, but as a new system it isn’t cheap and the games that you can buy […]
Things I Never Learned in Library School: Public Libraries, 3D Printers, and Guns – oh my
We considered a lot of things when we were discussing adding a 3D printer to our Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County. These things included space, time, money and staff education. At the end of the day and after a lot of research, we decided that a 3D printer […]
MakerSpace: Rhonna Designs Photo and Collage App Review
Behold, I have found a new photo app! As I mentioned last week, a friend fell into a button maker group and they talk a lot about two things: 1) The Canon Selphy printer, which I reviewed last week and 2) The Rhonna Designs app, which a lot of people in the button making community […]
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