Teen Lib.

I just found an article posted on a video gaming site by a librarian refered to on the site called the video gaming librarian. The article talked about a test he conducted by building a collection of PS2 games in his library this last year. The test was, according to the article, a succes. Read [...]

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So it has been a few days now and I have not had much time to post.  Tonight unfortunately is no exception.  I have however had a lot of time to read, and in some cases listen to, books and graphic novels lately.  So in the next few days you can be expecting me to [...]

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Mark Waid, like many before him, has developed a new vision of the origins and beginning of superman.  In this world, Clark Kent is a young, traveling reporter who has been trying his best to hide his powers from the world.  After some startling events in Africa Clark decides it is time to use his [...]

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On Sunday night we had one of our video game tournaments at the library and it was a very fun night. We were originally going to have what we were calling an old school video game night. We wanted to have a Nintendo, Atari, Sega, and maybe others in an attempt let the kids see [...]

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Here is another one of my book talks. The book is Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. It is, in my opinion, one of the best Young Adult Books that came out in 2004. It was both and Newbery and Printz honor book. The story is interesting, funny, and exciting, but it is also based [...]

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Here is one of my favorite book talks on a book I thought was fantastic.  Ill let the book talk speak for itself.
Stuck in Neutral.
By: Terry Trueman
 
Shawn McDaniel is a lot like any other fourteen year old you might know.  He likes music, enjoys eating potato chips, and has discovered a new found appreciation for [...]

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I am a very big advocate of using video games in libraries and thus I have decided to start discussing that here. For now I just wanted to mention some video game tournaments we have been hosting at my library. Once a month we have been having either a video game tournament or free play [...]

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I have just added a book talking category. As I explained in that category description I have written book talks for many of the young adult books that I have read and I hope to continue writing them as I read. I will post them here for any who are curious.  I will aslo try [...]

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The Historian is a novel which transcends both time and place. It is the story of 16 year old girl, living in Amsterdam in 1972, who stumbles upon an envelope of her fathers containing some very dangerous information. The envelope holds a mysterious and ancient book which is primarily blank but has a large woodcut [...]

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So I have been spending a lot of time lately thinking about both Podcasting and Vodcasting and trying to come up with fun ways of using them in a library setting with teens. I have come up with one idea in particular that I am very excited about and I hope that sometime I will [...]

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