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Video Games Weekly: Pokemon Go and Teen Programming (TPiB)
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Pokemon Go, the newest app that inspires gamers to GO OUTSIDE! Many libraries have already utilized Pokemon Go as social media content, book display inspiration, and promotional material. Instead of focusing on what Pokemon Go is and how to play, this article is going to […]
MakerSpace: The Teen reviews The Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH)
This summer my teenage daughter got to spend some time with me at my library in the Teen MakerSpace. (I work in a different state then we live, yes it’s weird.) As a mom, I was very excited that my daughter got to spend time with me at work. As a teen services librarian, I […]
App Review: Pokemon Go
This weekend my timeline flooded with posts about Pokemon Go. Then on Sunday afternoon, The Teen came home from a friend’s house declaring they had walked 3 miles trying to catch Pokemons. So I decided I needed to figure out what this Pokemon Go is because my teens are definitely into it. Pokemon Go is […]
Sunday Reflections: Today I Am an Empty Well
Many readers have often told me that Sunday Reflections are their favorite posts here at TLT. They’re moving I hear. Insightful. Challenging. I’m sorry dear reader but today, I have nothing. I can not even begin to process what is happening around our world, in my country, near my home (I live 20 minutes from […]
MakerSpace: Instagram Scrapbook and Mini Books (Book Making in the Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County)
Sometimes you have one of those moments of serendipity. I had just gone through an ordered a handful of books about book making when a teen came into the Teen MakerSpace and made a book. It was a sign, so we created a book making station. And because The Teen spent the first month of […]
Sunday Reflections: When the Rains Came Down, a reflection on THE LAST BOY AND GIRL IN THE WORLD by Siobhan Vivian
On February 28, 2011, my town flooded. I woke up to the smell of fire and learned that my basement contained both an electrical fire and rapidly rising water. I ran to the front door only to discover that raging, freezing waters were traveling down my street, and they were quickly rising. Above me my […]
MakerSpace: Button Maker Challenges
At The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH), we have found that one of the most popular activities among our teens is making buttons. We run into a lot of our teens around town that look like this: But we started to notice that teens were just coming in, printing of a […]
TLT Roundtable: What About “Clean” Books? What does “clean” mean when we are talking about books?
Yesterday, Blink YA shared a post about “Clean” YA Reads. You can read it here. As it always does, when this term pops up it sparks considerable discussion. Over time I have thought a lot about what this term means and my feelings towards it. And yesterday, I reached out to my fellow TLTers to […]
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