Say Cheese!

Pictures of more programs from this summer...

Animal Expressions
Crispus Attucks
Dave Rojahn
Get the Beat
Kids and Cultures
Marilyn's Craft Days

Many more to come, and video too! Check back often for updates.

Pictures and Video! - Microphone Craft and Sing-along

Today was our Microphone Craft and Sing-along. If you weren't there, take a look and see what you missed. If you were check out the cool pictures and video of the event for snaps of your children. We hope to see you at the next program!

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Pictures and Video! - Lancaster Science Factory Program

Today was our program all about science. Jim from the Lancaster Science Factory came to show us all sorts of neat things. If you were at the event take a look and see if there are any pictures or video of your child. If you weren't there, take a look and see what you missed. We hope to see you at the next program!

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Pictures and Video! - Summer Reading Program Kickoff Event

This past Saturday was our first Kickoff event in Musser Park! We had a very nice time and it was great to see so many of you there to support us. If you were at the event take a look and see if there are any pictures or video of your child. If you weren't there, take a look and see what you missed. We hope to see even more people next year. Comments and suggestions are always welcome!

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Teen Book Club

Greetings Readers!

I wanted to recap what we talked about during the book discussion. You can read Paul Volponi's inspiration for Black and White and a sneak peak at his new book, Response, on his website: http://www.paulvolponibooks.com/

Some fabulous book recommendations were made: Bloodhound, by Tamora Pierce. "Bloodhound was really good. Tamora Pierce creates a language but uses it little enough to make it enjoyable to read." The Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane. Order of the Stick, comic series--I will have to order them, we don't have any! The Girl's Guide to Dungeons & Dragons, "so funny, and of course, meant for girls!" I had a request for a booklist on novels that have magic in a real world setting--coming soon.

The Teen Book Club selection for June 27th is Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow! Please stop by the library to borrow a copy or reserve one online with your library card by clicking here.

You can watch the book trailer below. It's a little long, but you get an idea of how great the book is!

Read Beyond Reality @ your library! Lancaster Public Library's Youth Video Contest!

Have you read any of the Teens’ Top Ten Nominees? Read a great book, make a great video, win a Flip Video Camera!

How to Win:
· You must be age 11 through 18 to participate. (Participants under age 13, please ask for help with uploading videos to YouTube.)
· Read one of the Teen’s Top Ten Nominees or another Young Adult book. (ask the librarian for help)
· Shoot a short video (up to three minutes long). Make it a Video Book Review (talk about why the book is so great) or a Video Book Trailer (think movie trailer – you get to be even more creative this way).
· Post it to your YouTube account.
· Tag your YouTube Video with
LancTeenContestFlip2009
· Enter your video in our contest beginning June 1st. You can enter as many videos as you like – they just need to have separate YouTube URLs and be entered separately. Deadline is October 1st, 2009 @ 9pm.

Want details?
Call 396-9313 ext. 124; e-mail akantner@lancaster.lib.pa.us; or stop by the
Lancaster Public Library at 125 North Duke Street

Here's a short video on how to upload your video book review or book trailer to YouTube:

You can get more instruction by clicking on the Help link in the right corner of YouTube.
Talk to you soon!
Audrey

President Obama reads Where the Wild Things Are

I love this book! President Obama doesn't do a bad job reading either.

Cheers,

Audrey

Watch Sherman Alexie Read from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Hey Peeps, If you can't check out the book because all of the books in the system are checked out right now, (Darn those book clubs), you can watch Sherman Alexie read from his book if you click on the link below. Don't forget, you can also visit his website: http://www.fallsapart.com/. Talk to you soon, Audrey

I LOVE my Library!

Just so you know...

...we librarians don't take ourselves TOO seriously. We have a very healthy sense of humor.

I'm not even technically working right now as I'm on vacation AND the library isn't even open at 9:30pm. I just HAD to share this video I found on YouTube though. Enjoy! I'll be back at the library on Friday!

Teen Advisory Board Meeting Minutes from June 17th @ 4:30PM in The HUB

Upcoming Programs for this fall:
· Animé Club—we will watch anime and talk about it, movies will be chosen by group members
· Local Food in Focus YouTube Project —teen video documentary on why we buy local and organic produce, we will travel around central market with a video camera, our video will be posted on our YouTube account
· Relay Races Game Night—physical games to get you movin’ and laughin’
· Library Survivor Scavenger Hunt—if you know your way around the library, you will survive!
· Hispanic Heritage Month Latino Teen Party—October, I’m planning a party where we’ll have food, salsa dancing lessons, games, and books for Latino teens—I need your help and suggestions, please! If you are a Latino/Latina, please call or e-mail me and give me some advice on how to make this a spectacular Latino Teen Program!

Program Suggestions:
· 80’s Lock-in: watch movies like Say Anything , learn how to break dance, pizza
· Get a group together to go see the new Harry Potter movie when it comes out in November

Suggested Fall Movies:
· Dark Knight
· Chronicles of Narnia
· Saved
· Holes
· Iron Man
· The Incredible Hulk
· Pirates of the Caribbean series

Audrey A. Kantner
Family Place & Teen Services Coordinator
Lancaster Public Library
125 North Duke Street
Lancaster, PA 17602
Phone: 717-394-2651
akantner@lancaster.lib.pa.us

We're ALLLLL WIGGLY!

We got ALL WIGGLY at Tony Fredericks' program this morning. If you were here you know it was a lot of fun. If you weren't able to be with us feel free to check out our pictures and videos. Maybe you'll get to see him at another library!

Here's a clip of us getting ALL WIGGLY!