Teen Space – A Blog for Our Teen Readers
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New Teen Area! - Posted On January 16, 2013
We’ve remodeled our Teen Area in the library and made it a much brighter and open as well as adding some more comfortable places to sit and read, study, or just relax. Come and try it out the next time you visit, we hope you’ll enjoy the new arrangement!
A Few Good Apps - Posted On January 4, 2013
Ebooks may be one of the things that we get asked about most when it comes to smartphones and tablets, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t come across other great things to do with a mobile device! Here are just a few of the better apps we’ve happened across lately:
YALSA’s Teen Book ...
Zombies with Rick - Posted On October 24, 2012
Have you ever wondered what your favorite celebrity would look like as a zombie? Or, how about your little sister? Now you have a chance to see, and better yet, to learn how to draw people you know as zombies!
Join cartoonist Rick Parker for a fun, hands-on workshop in which he will show ...
Teen Advisory Group - Posted On October 17, 2012
We’re putting out the call to teens that we’re forming a Teen Advisory Group here at the library. What a TAG group does is to try to improve what the library has to offer to other teens. It can cover anything from recommending books, making changes to the teen areas for the library, and ...
Teen Time at the Library - Posted On April 4, 2012
We’re thrilled to introduce Teen Time in the Library! On Wednesdays and Fridays from 2:30-5:00, we’re taking our large Russell Room and making it into a Teen Lounge, a place for local teens to be themselves and have fun. It’s open to grades 6-12, and just in case you’re wondering, during Teen Time:
Food and ...
Teen Tech Week Prizes! - Posted On March 8, 2012
Don’t forget that this Friday the 9th at 3 the library is having a Tech Petting Zoo, with a door prize. We’ll be seeing all kinds of older technology that led to the wonderful gadgets you carry today. Compared to today’s Mp3-Compatible Smartphones you’d be amazed at the lengths we went to just for music ...
Online Privacy, Just what’s going on behind the scenes? - Posted On February 21, 2012
I recently read an article discussing how the mass amounts of information that companies collect about us, online and elsewhere, and how it gets used. What stunned me in the article was how frankly they listed information was available to companies, and just how MUCH was available. To sum it up for you all, here’s ...
Teen Tech Week - Posted On February 21, 2012
It’s almost here again, Teen Tech Week! I’ve got a number of interesting tech issues I’ll be talking up in the lead-up to Teen Tech Week, but this year we’re doing something a little special and giving you a Technology Retrospective.
That is to say, we’ll be highlighting a lot of the tech that led up ...
Big Things Are Coming - Posted On February 21, 2012
Hello all, I want to apologize for not updating the blog recently, we’ve had a lot of big shifts in the Library of late, and more on the way. I want to let everyone know we have some really exciting stuff coming up for teens in the future, but I can’t quite go into details ...
The NDAA Bill and the Internet - Posted On December 23, 2011
Some of you may have been hearing about SOPA recently, it’s been a pretty heatedly discussed topic of late. For those who haven’t heard of it before, SOPA stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that’s currently being debated by congress. The basic idea of the bill is to give the government ...
Improve Your Google-Fu! - Posted On November 29, 2011
Okay, so I KNOW you can all Google to find what you need, but here’s a neat little infographic I got off of one of my Librarian Blogs (Thank you Stephen Abram!) that teaches you Advanced Google Tricks that are especially good for research. There are better ways to search for school info than Google, ...
Help us Design a Space for You! - Posted On November 6, 2011
Hi Everyone, we’ve got some some exciting stuff in the works, but we need your help too! (Don’t worry, it’s easy stuff though.)
We want to give you teens more of your own space here in the library. We know there’s not a lot of space just for you right now, and we want to help ...
Gaming Postponed due to ‘rain’ - Posted On October 21, 2011
Hello everyone! By now you may have heard that the library has been closed off for most of the week, and I wanted to update you all as to why. We had a sprinkler pipe ‘burst’ and came in on Tuesday to find water pouring down from the ceiling in the children’s area and ...
Games in the Library - Posted On September 29, 2011
We’re off to a great start with Games in the library! We had a bunch of happy gamers playing on the Library’s Wii last Saturday. We’re shifting the time just a little bit and moving it back an hour so that gaming will start at 2:00 and end at 4:00.
We hope this helps even more ...
Banned Books Week - Posted On September 28, 2011
If you’ve stopped by the Library this week, you may have seen our display all about Banned Books Week. A few of you have even asked me what the week is for, or what a Banned Book is. Well, I’m here to tell you.
A banned book is any book that someone has spoken up, ...
Games in the Library - Posted On September 15, 2011
We’re very glad to announce that we’re starting to host Video Games here at the Falmouth Memorial Library. Yes, you read that right! Starting Saturday the 24th we’ll be holding gaming sessions each Saturday from 2-4. The games are open to everyone age 8 and up, and we’ve got a bunch of fun games for ...
Teen’s Top Ten! - Posted On August 23, 2011
This is always one of my personal favorite booklists. We librarians make lots of lists of books for all sorts of reasons, but this is one list that we have to keep our hands off of because ONLY teens get to vote on the list!
That’s right, it’s up to all of you, and we ...
Zombies, Zombies, and More Zombies!!! - Posted On July 14, 2011
Hi Everyone, I promised you that we were going to be talking about Zombie books, and I’m glad to say that we have all sorts of interesting Undead Stories this summer! Here are some of the best zombie books we’ve gotten to read lately. Be aware, most of these can get pretty graphic at ...
Online Reading Group - Posted On July 8, 2011
Hi There!
I’ve got something new to tell you all about. We’ve been hard at work at the library, not just stocking up on incredible teen stories and graphic novels, but on giving you more ways to get them, find them, and enjoy them! Today we’re unveiling our new Online Reading Group, and we’ve made ...
YA Lit is Hot Hot Hot for the Summer! - Posted On June 23, 2011
Right now, Teen Literature is one of the hottest things being published. Every time I look I’m finding great new teen novels that have just come out. These two are just a couple out of many that we’ve gotten in recently, but there’s lots more!
The Lipstick Laws is the story of a girl in ...
New Stuff for Teens! - Posted On March 30, 2011
Here’s a pair of the new titles that have just arrived at the library. The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Birth of a Killer and Blessed.
Fans of the “Circe du Freak” series won’t want to miss The Saga of Larten Crepsley, which gives new detail to the lives of vampires and the process of ...
Day 5 – Fit your Home Computer in your Pocket - Posted On March 11, 2011
Personally, I have found this to be one of the most impressive things my phone can do. If you have a computer at home, and ever wished that you could squeeze it down small enough to keep in your pocket.. Well, you can come -pretty- close!
There are -many- apps that let you do this, and ...
Day 4 – Television on Demand in your Pocket - Posted On March 11, 2011
Things have been hopping here at the library, sorry for the late update, but these are good ones:Sure, youtube is pretty old news to most of you out there, but with services (and apps) like Netflix and Hulu, we can access video on demand. Sadly, not all of these video services are free, but they’re ...
Day 3 – Scanning Apps, a New View with your Phone! - Posted On March 9, 2011
Phones with cameras in them are pretty old news, but as those cameras get better and sharper, they’re getting more uses than just taking still pictures and video.. Today’s phones can read things in a picture that you and I aren’t so good at:
Barcodes Most smartphones have some form of barcode-reading app. The most common, ...
Day 2 – A Digital Library, all in your Phone! - Posted On March 8, 2011
Have a library card? Then you can check out books on your smartphone right now, from wherever you are! (If you have your phone and reception, anyways!)
Many state libraries have been picking up Overdrive service, and Overdrive allows you to use your library card to check out and download digital titles. Regular ‘print’ books, and ...
Teen Tech Week is This Week! - Posted On March 5, 2011
Teen Tech Week is a week where libraries across the country recognize that Teenagers are often on the cutting edge of new technologies. This year we’re focusing on Mobile Phones, and we’re asking for your help! We know that nobody knows Cell Phones like our teens, and we want to collect all of the best ...
Day 1 – Text to Email, and Back Again. - Posted On March 5, 2011
It’s surprisingly easy to send a text message to an email address, just put in the email instead of a phone number, and off it goes!
It’s just a tiny bit more tricky to send emails as a text message, but all you need is the number of phone you want to message and the phone’s ...
