DPL Teens

If you haven’t already signed up for the Teen Summer Reading Program now’s the time to do so!  The program is really easy to do and runs for the months of June and July.  This year’s theme is Make Waves @ Your Library.  In keeping with the theme we’ve come up with a bunch of great summer programs and events, all of which we will highlight over the next two days. 

First, we want to tell you all about the Teen Summer Reading Program:

So what is it?  Every summer we encourage teens to keep track of what they read in a summer reading log and then we give out prizes when they’re done.  Simple enough right?!

How do you sign up?  In order to sign up visit the Young Adult section at either DPL location, sign your name/email/school in the sign-up book, grab a log, and you’re set.

What do you have to do?  Once you’ve signed up and you have your log, you just keep track of the number of pages that you read–you get one point per every page read.  We also like to give the teens options so you can earn points in other ways, too–like attending library programs and/or volunteering.  All the details are laid out in the log and you can always ask if you have questions.

What do you get out of it?  When you reach 1,000 points you’re finished!  Don’t forget to turn your log in to claim your finishing prize.  This year we’re handing out free books.  Brand new copies of some of the hottest titles out there.  Serious.  Don’t miss your chance to get one.

Anything else?  Yeah, then you can enter into the drawings for the Grand Prizes!!  We’ve got lots of ‘em to choose from so it might be a tough call.

Make some waves at your library…  Sign up today! 

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Harry and the Potters, the biggest wizard rock band on the PLANET, will be playing at the new Eastern Branch Library for the Grand Opening Party!!! For those of you who are wizard rock fans, I’m sure you just choked on your butterbeer. But some of you may be all “Wizard Rock Wha Who Huh?!?” No worries–we’ve got several weeks to introduce you to the worldwide phenomenon of music based on the world of Harry Potter and turn you into a superfan. Here are three good starters:

1. Here is the teaser trailer for the Wizard Rockumentary (so obviously it gives lots of fun info about Wizard Rock!)

2. MTV NEWS VIDEO: MTV did a news segment on Wizard rock in the summer of 2007 that does a good job showcasing many of the wrock groups, including Harry and the Potters. Sadly, MTV won’t let me embed this video anymore but you can still see it on their site!

3. Read the awesome book Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Melissa Anelli. It has a whole awesome chapter on Wizard Rock.

Yea! Yea! Yea! Okay, question: is this nerdy-cool or cool-nerdy? or even something more complicated like geeky-nouveau-punk-magic?

Anyway, so text all your friends about the JULY 10th HARRY AND THE POTTERS show and keep watching this blog as we continue to freak out about how neato this is.

Ah, ’tis the end of our SRP wrap up.  The last program we have to feature from this summer’s excitement is Xtreme Balloon Sculpting.  This program was actually surprisingly more fun than one might expect.  Each participant learned how to make a balloon sword and a balloon dog.  Then pretty much everyone just had balloon sword fights.  Don’t worry, none of the balloon dogs were harmed.  

Unfortunately, we were all so busy tying balloon knots and twisting out creations we only managed to take a few pics.

Stay tuned to next week’s posts as we’ll begin to feature the upcoming regular teen programs as well as special events like Inside Outloud (an open mic poetry slam during Banned Books Week) and the 2nd Annual Anime Fest (to be held at the Figge Art Museum)…oh yeah.

-Christie

This is the second summer for our teen “Duct Tape Creations” program.  I gotta say it’s my favorite teen craft program, by far.  Just look at the results we had this year:

It’s super easy to make things out of duct tape.  Super fun, too.  And once you get going it can be really addictive.  If you’re not careful you might even end up with a whole new wardrobe.  Give it a try at home.  But first, place a hold on these titles to help get you on your way…Ductigami…Got Tape?  They’re full of great ideas and tips for the duct tape creator in you.

-Christie

Back in July we decided to host a recycled CD craft program.  We let the teens go wild with our crafting supplies and couldn’t wait to see how they transformed the CDs into cool new creations.  The results were pretty sweet.  I totally heart the disco ball.

-Christie

Another popular teen program we held this summer was Flip Flop Makeovers.  Check out the results…

In the above pic, the teen tied tiny water balloons to the sandals in order to spruce them up a bit.  Very cool and perfect for time spent poolside.

Here a patron used water balloons, ribbon, and fur to add style to ordinary orange flip flops.  Nice.

Lastly, several teens embellished their summer footwear with glittery jewels.  Looks especially good with the sparkly blue nail polish. 

We’re probably going to have to host this program again next summer.  It was a sure hit.  There were even a few boys who attended the program and made cool sandals by coloring on them with metallic markers and gluing pop tabs on the straps.  They ended up being really neat, but the guys had really dirty feet so we opted out of exposing you to those pics   You can thank us later.

-Christie

Check out these pics from the Gocks & Pocks program we held in June.  

Goooooood times.

-Christie