Teen Advisory Group - April Meeting Notes

Our April meeting for the Teen Advisory Group was this past Saturday.  We discussed the success of Nutmeg@Night, plans for the summer, and the Book and Bake sale coming in May.

The upcoming programs for young adults are:

• Beaded Drop Earrings - Tuesday, April 14th 3:30-5:00pm
• Teen Cuisine: Fresh and Affordable - Wednesday, April 22nd 4:30-6:30pm
• Teen Book Club (The List) - Wednesday, April 29th 6:00-7:00pm
• Practice SAT - Saturday, May 2nd 12:00-3:00pm
• NEXT TAG MEETING - Saturday, May 2nd 3:00-4:00pm

Suggestions & Recommendations

Programs

• Book club with a movie (Amy)
• Painting (Amy)
• Origami (Jill)

Books

• Fairy Tail (Jill)
• The Martian (Tim)
• Endangered (Karyn)
• Curse of the Blue Tattoo (Karyn)
• Brisingr (Tim)
• Animal Farm (Jill)

Music

• Showtunes (Jill)

Movies

• Into the Woods (Jill)
• Divergent (Tim)
• Imitation Game (Tim)

TV

• Archer (Karyn)
• Danny Phantom (Jill)
• Gray's Anatomy (Amy)
• Steven Universe (Jill)
• Sherlock (Jill)
• Modern Family (Amy)

Video Games

• South Park the Stick of Truth (Jill)
• Atelier Shallie (Karyn)
• Fantasy Life (Jill)
• Twilight Princess (Tim)
• Sims 4 (Karyn)

Websites

• weavesilk.com (Jill)
• http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/ (Amy)

Apps

• Kahoot (Amy)
• Heart Rate (Karyn)

Youtube Channels

• Red vs. Blue (Jill)
• Watch Mojo (Tim)

Podcasts

• Clark Howard (Amy)
• Welcome to Knightvale (Jill)

Closing early tomorrow, TAG early

Tomorrow the library will be closing at 1:00pm to prepare for the Taste of Durham.  Due to this the Teen Advisory Group meeting will be meeting earlier than usual, at 11:00am.  Attend if you're able!

Teen Advisory Group - January Meeting Notes

At our January meeting today present were Hannah, Jill, Melanie, Catherine, and Librarian Karyn.

First we discussed general goals for TAG for 2015.  We want to do more advertising of the group and educating teens about what it is and the fact that they can earn community service hours for participating.  Also in 2014 we want to do more fundraising, repeating our bake sale from last year.  Catherine also thought we should include some healthy or vegan baked goods at the sale.

The Teen Lounge is starting Monday, January 12th.  It will run 2:00-5:00 in the Activity Room on regular school days.  Available will be: laptops, board games, the Wii, magazines, tables, school supplies, and occasionally movies, snacks, and crafts.  It will be a place for teens to hang out after school and not have as much pressure to be quiet since it will be further away from the main part of the library.  Teens will still not be allowed to be extremely loud, but normal teen conversation will be permitted.

Big things are coming for the Summer Reading Program this summer!  Things are still in planning but you should know there will be an awesome theme (heroes!), great programming for all ages, neat prizes, and author visits!  Stay tuned for more information!

The Nutmeg@Night Gameshow is coming to the library again this year on March 12th.  There will be competitions for Intermediate (grades 4-6) and Teen (grades 7+ and adult teams).  Each team member only needs to have read 3/10 of the nominees to participate.  A fun time competing on multiple choice trivia.

Upcoming programs:

 Wednesday, January 14th 4:30-6:30 – Teen Cuisine: Caribbean Food
 Tuesday, January 20th 6:30-8:30 – College for Less financial planning workshop
 Saturday, January 24th 12:00-3:00 – Practice SAT
 Wednesday, January 28th 6:00-7:00 – Teen Book Club: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
 Friday, January 30th 3:30-4:30pm – Extreme Paper Snowflakes
 NEXT MEETING – Saturday February 7th **11am-NOON** due to Taste of Durham

Suggestions & Recommendations

Programming

• Beaded rings (Cat)
• Pottery (Cat)
• Dream catchers (Jill)
• some sort of Disney themed program (Cat)
• Handmade books (Mel)
• Graphic Novel Book Club
• Natural beauty (Cat)
• Bath Bombs (Hannah)

Books

• Life of Pi (Mel)
• An Abundance of Katherines (Jill)
• Millennium Snow (Jill)
• Through the Woods (Cat)
• Grasshopper Jungle (Hannah)
• Andre the Giant (Librarian Karyn)
• This One Summer (Hannah)

Music

• Cursive (Hannah)
• Third Eye Blind (Hannah)
• Walk the Moons (Mel)
• Uptown Funk (Hannah)
• Little Game (Jill)
• Ed Sheeran (Cat)
• Steam Powered Giraffe (Jill)
• Le Cray (Cat)
• Lana del Ray (Hannah)

Movies

• Anna Karenina (Cat)
• Lilo & Stitch (Hannah)
• When Harry Met Sally (Mel)
• Snowpiercer (Librarian Karyn)
• Dr. Zhivago (Cat)
• Fame (Mel)

TV

• Agent Carter (Hannah & Librarian Karyn)
• The Librarians (Jill)
• Bob's Burgers (Hannah)
• Supernatural (Librarian Karyn)
• Hunter x Hunter (Jill)
• Avatar the Last Airbender (Jill)

Video Games

• Tales of Xillia 2 (Librarian Karyn)
• Fantasy Life (Jill)
• Tomagachi Life (Jill)
• Little Big Planet 3 (Mel)
• Super Smash Bros for 3DS (Jill)

Youtube Channels

• Buzzfeed (Jill)
• E-How (Mel)
• Alex Day (Cat)
• It's Way Past My Bedtime (Mel)

NEXT MEETING – Saturday February 7th **11am-NOON** due to Taste of Durham

Teen Advisory Group - September Meeting

We had our September TAG meeting this past Saturday.  Present were: Catherine, Hannah, Hope, Jill, Melanie, and Zach.

We first discussed the rule sheets that have been passed out to young adult entering the library.  Everyone thought they were great and didn't need anything edited on them.

We also discussed the upcoming Fall Fest next month and how the TAG would participate.  We discussed doing glitter tattoos and the candy jar counting again, and possible a ring bottle toss game.

The upcoming programs for young adults at the library are:

A. Monday, September 8th – Free Zumba Class 3:30-4:30pm
B. Wednesday, September 10th – Teen Cuisine: Apples 4:30-6:30pm
C.  Thursday, September 11th – Super Smash Bros Brawl League 4:00-5:00pm
D. Monday, September 15th – Free Zumba Class 3:30-4:30pm
E. Thursday, September 18th – Super Smash Bros Brawl League 4:00-5:00pm
F. Saturday, September 20th – Duct Tape Belts 3:00-4:00pm
G. Monday, September 22nd – Free Zumba Class 3:30-4:30pm
H. Wednesday, September 24th – Teen Book Club: Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong 6:00-7:00pm
I. Monday, September 29th – Free Zumba Class 3:30-4:30pm
J. Thursday, October 2nd – Super Smash Bros Brawl League 4:00-5:00pm
K. Tuesday, October 7th – Teen Lego Club 7:00-8:00pm
L. Wednesday, October 8th – Teen Knitting Club 5:30-6:30pm
M. Thursday, October 9th – Super Smash Bros Brawl League 4:00-5:00pm
N. NEXT TAG MEETING: SATURDAY, OCT. 11th 3:00-4:00

Then we moved on to discussing our suggestions and recommendations~

Programs

• drawing manga
• babysitting class
• self defense
• life size board game
• worst case scenario
• bring your own guitar music class
• reading music instruction
• featuring a 'genre of the month'
• writer's club

Books

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Jill)
• Paper Towns by John Green (Jill)
• 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Catherine)
• The Jeeves books by P. G. Wodehouse (Zach)
• The Healer's Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson (Hope)
• Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (Melanie)
• The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau (Miss G)
• Skin and Bones by Sherry Shahan (Miss G)
• Beowulf (Zach)

TV

• Criminal Minds (Melanie)
• New Girl (Catherine)
• Dr. Who (Hannah)
• Brooklyn 99 (Miss G)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Catherine)

Movies

• Willow (Miss G)
• Princess Bride (Zach)
• Pacific Rim (Zach)
• Before Sunrise (Melanie)
• If I Stay (Catherine)
• Ever After (Zach)

Video Games

• Knights of Pen & Paper (Hannah)
• Shovel Knight (Jill)
• 5 Nights at Freddy's (Hannah)
• Super Mario 64 (Jill)

Music

• OAR (Melanie)
• Black Keys (Catherine)
• Chvrs (Melanie)
• We Are Alive (podcast)(Hannah)

Websites/Youtube

• Cheggaconroy, YT (Jill)
• Vlogbros, YT (Jill)
• Boardshorts TV, YT (Hope)

Apps

• Waze (Miss G)
• Hobbit News (Zach)
• Pocket Avatars (Zach)
• Action Movie FX (Zach)

Our next meeting is Saturday, October 11th at 3pm, see you then!

Teen Advisory Group July Meeting

The TAG met yesterday, had chips & salsa, and discussed!

We started out by talking about the Summer Reading Program, what was going well, what wasn't working, what we could change.  Hannah let me know that one of my links was not working and I have now fixed that.  When you go to the main page of the Summer Reading Online logging, the link to the badges page now works.  Hooray!

We then talked about talking to other teens about why they use the library, what they want, and what they need from the library.  We plan on visiting the library's Board with our findings in September to talk about what the teens using the library are like and what they would want from a new teen area.

We reviewed the upcoming programs:

Monday, July 7th 14th, 21st, & 28th – Coding Club – 3pm
Tuesday, July 8th 15th, 22nd, 29th, & 5th – Robotics Club – 3pm
Tuesdays, July 8th – Cracked Marble Pendants – 7pm
Wednesday, July 9th – Teen Knitting Club – 5:30pm
Friday, July 11th & 25th – Teen Movie Matinee (What should we show?) – 2pm
Saturday, July 19th – Hogwarts Potions Class – 2:30pm
Wednesday, July 23rd – Teen Cuisine: Spicy Food – 4:30pm
Tuesday, July 29th – Teen Book Club with live Skype – 6pm
Thursday, July 31st – Bubble Art – 3pm

Suggestions & Recommendations

Programs

multi-week sewing project (making a purse from a pattern)

hair tutorials with Melanie

nail art

zumba

Just Dance

Sing It?

Acting Workshop

Books

Delilah Dirk (Jill)

The Lost Boy (Catherine)

The Fault in Our Stars (Melanie)

Andre the Giant (Catherine)

Akira vol. 1 (Jill)

Distant Waves (Melanie)

The Time Machine (Melanie)

The Belgardiad series (MissG)

Angelburn (Jill)

TV

Free Swim Club (Jill)

Psychpass (Jill)

Legend of the Legendary Hero (Catherine)

Cowboy Bebop (MissG)

The Fosters (Melanie)

Karin (MissG)

Kaze No Stigma (Melanie)

Movies

Mandela (Melanie)

Picture Perfect (Catherine)

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Jill)

Penelope (Melanie)

Music

Fall Out Boy/new album (Hannah)

Ariana Grande (Melanie)

Bleachers (Catherine)

r5 (Melanie)

Iggy Azalea (MissG)

Video Games

Long Live the Queen (MissG)

Skyrim (Jill)

Awesomenauts (Jill)

Websites & Youtube Channels

geoguessr.com (MissG)

Moth Comic (Hannah)

Mini: A Small Comic (Hannah)

Breaking Cat News (MissG)

Portal Web Comic (Jill)

Apps

piano app?

Leaf Snap (MissG)

Our next meeting will be Saturday, August 2nd 3:00-4:00pm and we will plan for our Ice Cream Social!

Teen Advisory Group June Meeting Notes

The TAG met this past Saturday afternoon.

We started out by discussing how the Bake Sale went, which was wonderfully!  Thanks to everyone who baked or volunteered their time.  We earned $133.00 and we used it to purchase an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet to give away as a summer reading prize this year.  We plan on doing the bake sale again next year since it was so successful this year. 

We discussed how we would decorate the YA room for the Summer Reading Program this year around the theme "Spark a Reaction."  We threw around ideas of gears, sparklers, and (of course) glitter.  We decided we would work on the decorations after the volunteer orientations later this month.

The upcoming programs are:




Wednesday, June 11th – Teen Knitting Club 5:30pm
Saturday, June 21st – Volunteen Training 1 – 2:00pm
Wednesday, June 25th – Teen Book Club – Distant Waves – 6pm
Thursday, June 26th – Volunteen Training 2 – 3pm
Saturday, June 28th – After Hours Teen Kickoff Party 7:30pm
Monday, June 30th – First day of Summer Reading Program
Monday, June 30th – Sidewalk decorating with chalk – 10:30am
Tuesday, July 1st – First meeting of session 1 of the Robotics Club 3pm
Thursday, July 3rd – Hair chalking, henna tattoos, glitter tattoos, and flame nails 3pm

NEXT TAG MEETING: SATURDAY, JULY 5TH 3:00pm

Then we did our suggestions & recommendations portion~

Programming
Another duct tape program (Melanie)
Ice cream in a bag (Melanie)
Decorating Cupcakes (Hannah)
Paper making (Catherine)
Making baskets (Catherine)
Poetry workshop (Catherine)
Teaching/tutoring workshop (Catherine)
Body language workshop (Catherine)
Sign language (Jill)
Newspaper nails (Melanie)
Zumba (Melanie)
Mythbusters workshop (Melanie)
Minecraft post it art (Melanie)

Books
Tis by Frank McCourt (Catherine)
Change Anything by Kerry Patterson (Catherine)
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (MissG)
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki (Hannah)
Zombellium: Gretchen by Arthur de Pins (MissG)

TV
Sherlock (Jill)
Dragon Ball Z (Jill)
Ugly Betty (Melanie)
Big Bang Theory (Jill)
One Piece (Jill)
Out of Practice (Melanie)
Smallville (Catherine)

Movies
Life of Pi (Catherine)
Fault in Our Stars (Hannah)
Ghostbusters (Jill)
Love Actually (Hannah)
Breakfast Club (Jill)
GBF (Melanie)

Music
McFly (Melanie)
The 1975 (Melanie)
ABBA (Catherine)
Boyce Avenue (Melanie)
Torry Kelly (Melanie)
Michael Jackson (Catherine)
Kurt & Max Snyder (Melanie)

Video Games
Don't Starve (MissG)
Watchdogs (Jill)
Endgame (Hannah)
Supermeatboy (Jill)

Apps
Shazam (Hannah)
2048 (Jill)

Websites
hogwartsishere.com (Jill)
flappy2048.com (Hannah)
babbel.com (Catherine)
dahliawolf.com (Tiffany)

Youtube Channels
Cinema Sins (Jill)


 

Book Sale & Bake Sale Tomorrow

Tomorrow, May 17th, is looking like its going to be a little rainy, so what better way to spend a rainy day than at the library?  We even have some special events!

The PALS Annual Book Sale will be from 10am to 4pm, with an early bird preview 9am-10am for $10.00.  We got lots of great donations this year, so come peruse a wide variety of material for a great value!

The Library's Teen Advisory Group (TAG) will be having its first Bake Sale to benefit the library during the same times.  Come get some cupcakes, cookies, sweet breads, cheesecake, and more!  All to support the library!

Any questions?  Call the library at 860-349-9544

Teen Advisory Group - May Meeting Notes

Hey YAs, the TAG met on Saturday.  Here is what we discussed!

The PALS Book Sale will be next Saturday, May 17th.  PALS needs help with bringing books downstairs and sorting them.  The tables are all labeled with what they have should have on them, so if you would like to sort, but can't make it Tuesday or Thursday night when PALS members are here sorting, you should be able to figure out what goes where.

Also on next Saturday, we are having a Bake Sale!  We will set up 9am-10am, sell baked goods 10am-4pm, and then clean up 4pm-5pm.  We will need volunteers to work any and all of that time.  If you want to bake something or volunteer some time there are sign up sheets for both.  Baked goods can be dropped of Friday afternoon or Saturday morning before 10. 

I have completed my first version of the Summer Reading Program brochure, so we took a look at it and shared our comments.  All were excited for the programs and there was some extra excitement for the new badge/achievement program that we are adding.  There will be 150 badges to earn and teens will get an extra raffle ticket for every 10 badges they earn. 

Upcoming Programs:

Wed. May 14th - Teen Knitting Club 5:30pm
Sat. May 17th - PALS Book Sale 9-4
Sat. May 17th - TAG Bake Sale 10-4
Wed. May 21st - Teen Cuisine: American Food 4:30pm
Wed. May 28th - After School Movie: Vampire Academy 3:30pm
Wed. May 28th - Teen Book Club - An Abundance of Katherines by John Green 6pm
Tues. June 3rd - College For Less 6:30pm
NEXT TAG MEETING - SATURDAY JUNE 7TH 3PM 

Then we moved on to our suggestions & recommendations portion...

Books 

Breathe by Sarah Crossen - Jill

In a barren land, a shimmering glass dome houses the survivors of the Switch, the period when oxygen levels plunged and the green world withered. A state lottery meant a lucky few won safety, while the rest suffocated in the thin air. And now Alina, Quinn, and Bea--an unlikely trio, each with their own agendas, their own longings and fears--walk straight into the heart of danger. With two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, they leave the dome. What will happen on the third day?

America Goes to War by Bruce Catton - Catherine

America Goes to War addresses some of the salient cultural issues that are absent from studies of military strategy, battles and politics of Civil War history, (though, all of these remain essential to a real understanding of the significance of Civil War). The value of Catton's lectures, for this reader, underscore the importance of the Civil War, as the modern warfare prototype that was to emerge in the 20th Century, and how the unresolved social and political conflicts, manifested by the Civil War, remain in the American cultural fabric, even today.

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick - Miss G

A day in the life of a suicidal teen boy saying good-bye to the four people who matter most to him.

Across the Universe by Beth Revis - Melanie 

Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her.

Programming 

Crocheting - Catherine

Mosiac Art - Melanie

Spinning Demonstration - Catherine

Hairstyling - Melanie

TV 

Fair Tail - Jill

One Piece - Jill

Code Geass - Jill

The Middle - Catherine

Ouran Academy High School Host Club - Miss G

I Found the Gown - Catherine

Pokemon Indigo League - Philip

Movies

Last Vegas - Philip

Four best friends in their late sixties decide to have a bachelor party in Las Vegas to celebrate their last friend to get married.

12 Angry Men - Miss G

Courtroom drama revolving around the trial of a boy accused of killing his father, where one man stands between him and capital punishment.

Two Brothers - Melanie

Two mischievous twin tiger cubs are born in the jungle but are soon separated and taken into captivity. One is sold off to the circus and the other becomes the pampered pet of the governor's son. They are reunited years later by an explorer who trains them to be sport fighters and inadvertently forces them to fight each other.

Beginners - Melanie

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Bugs' Life - Melanie

Journey inside the miniature world of bugs where an ant named Flik hires warrior bugs to defend his colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers.

Music 

R5 - Melanie

Lorde - Tiffany

music from Wicked - Jill

The Animals - Catherine

Bleachers - Melanie

ZZ Ward - Melanie

Lana Del Rey (new album) - Tiffany

Hunter Hayes - Melanie

Tyler Ward - Melanie

Podcasts

Welcome to Night Vale - Jill

Video Games

Mirrors Edge - Philip

Minecraft - Philip & Jill

Mario Kart Wii U - Philip

Super Meat Boy - Jill

Kingdom of Hearts - Philip

Websites

ultimateguitar.com - Melanie

bulbapedia - Philip

wwoof.org - Catherine

Girl Genius web comic - Phlip

Youtube Channels 

Brental Floss - Philip

Annaheim Ballet - Melanie

Really Freaking Clever - Jill

J Loftus - Melanie

Tyler Ward - Melanie

Our next meeting is Saturday, June 7th at 3:00pm! 

Teen Advisory Group Meeting Notes - March 2014

The Teen Advisory Group had their March meeting this past Saturday.  Here is what we talked about!

The TAG bulletin board in the hallway looks great, so thanks to Melanie and Catherine for putting that together!  The board will stay up for the rest of this week, then I will be redoing it to advertise the Summer  Teen Internships available.

The PALS book sale is coming up next month and you might have noticed that they are now taking donations in the hallway.  This means they will soon need some volunteers to help in the sorting of the books.  This will probably start at the end of this month/beginning of May, I will let you know for sure when I hear.

The library is offering two paid teen internship postions at the library this summer.  Full information can be found in the handouts at the desk or on the blog post I did a couple of days ago.  Applications are at the desk or can be printed out from the website.  I did a webinar about how to get the most out of the teen interns and it was suggested that we have projects for them to work on.  The project idea I have so far is for them to do a library 'commercial' and TAG members suggested some sort of art project to beautify the library.

I would like to get more teens coming to Teen Book Club so any ideas for that?  TAG members suggested pairing a craft with book club.

Upcoming Programs

• Wed. April 16th - Bottle Cap Necklaces
• Wed. April 23rd - After School Movie (Teens' Choice)
• Sat. April 26th - Mini Terrariums
• Wed. April 30th - After School Movie (TBD)
• Wed. April 30th - Teen Book Club - Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
• Fri. May 2nd - Bracelets Three Ways
• Wed. May 7th - After School Movie (TBD)
• Sat. May 10th - Practice SAT
• NEXT TAG MEETING - Sat. May 10th 3:00-4:00pm

 We also discussed changing the day that Teen Knitting Club meets to accommodate the schedules of the teens who want to come.  TKC will now be the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 5:30-6:30.  Next one will be May 14th.
 

 Last, we did our suggestions & recommendations portion of our meeting!

Programming

• Coding (Jill)
• Movie character Halloween party (Catherine)
• Cheesemaking
• Board Game Night, esp. Scrabble, Scene It, or Apples to Apples
• Pie making

Books

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Miss G)
• 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Melanie)
• The Last Dragon Slayer by Jasper Fforde (Miss G)
• How the Irish Became American by Joseph O'Grady (Catherine)
• Panic by Lauren Oliver (Miss G)
• Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (MissG)
• Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Catherine)
• Clean by Amy Lynn Reed (Hannah)
• The Unidentified by Rae Mariz (Hannah)
• Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins (Jill)

TV

• Full Metal Alchemist (Jill)
• Fairy Tail (Miss G)
• Game of Thrones (Catherine)
• Karin (Miss G)
• Dharma and Greg (Melanie)
• Will and Grace (Melanie)
• Bates Motel (Miss G)

 Movies

• Perks of Being a Wallflower (Catherine)
• Along Came Polly (Catherine)
• Silver Linings Playbook (Melanie)
• Gone Baby Gone (Catherine)
• American Hustle (Catherine)
• Celina (Melanie)
• Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (Miss G)

 Music

• Mya Kern (Hannah)
• The Invincibles soundtrack (Catherine)
• Wicked soundtrack (Jill)
• Perks of Being a Wallflower soundtrack (Melanie)
• Neon Trees - Habits (Melanie)
• Gin Blossoms (Catherine)
• Augustana (newest album) (Catherine)
• Loretta Lynn (Catherine)

Video Games

• The Stanley Parable (Jill)
• Atelier Escha & Logy (Miss G)
• Super Smash Bros Melee (Jill)
• Arkham games (Jill)
• The Last of Us (Hannah)

 Websites

• soundrown.com - relaxing background sounds for concentration (Hannah)
• picmonkey.com  - photo editing (Melanie)
• ravelry.com - knitting & crocheting patterns (Catherine)

YouTube Channels

• VSauce - Mind blowing facts & the best of the internet (Jill)
• Thought Cafe - a motion graphic studio that promotes critical awareness through animated shorts (Melanie)
• The Game Theorists - Every Saturday, we separate the fact from the fiction in some of your favorite video games. From arrows in knees to zombies in space, from headshots to Halo, we've got you covered. Learn random info while we look in-depth at the designer's decisions for old, new, and forgotten gaming gems. Hey, it's just a bunch of theories. Game Theories! (Jill)

That's all for this month, come to the next TAG meeting on May 10th!

Teen Advisory Group - March

Hey YAs, the Teen Advisory Group met on Saturday.  Here is what we talked about!

Right now in the hallway on our bulletin board is an advertisement for this week's Teen Cuisine, but after that is over, the TAG will be making it into an advertisement for TAG.  It will include what we do, why we do it, why others should join, and who should join.  Members of TAG will work on the bulletin board Wednesday night after Teen Cuisine is over, about 6:45pm.

The new teen area would benefit from some extra money, so it would be a great idea if the TAG could hold a fundraiser towards that.  We talked about different fundraising ideas including a car wash, pet grooming, tag sale, bake sale, raffle, henna tattoos,

and selling crafts.  We weren't really thrilled with any of the ideas, so we are still on the lookout for a great fundraising idea.

We then discussed the Summer Reading Program including the programs planed, prizes planned, and some miscellaneous details.  More info to come for the public soon!

Upcoming Programs

                A. Wednesday, March 5^th – Teen cuisine: vegan & gluten free

                B. Wednesday, March 12^th – After School Movie: Catching Fire

                C.  Saturday, March 15^th – Super Smash Bros Brawl Wii Tournament

                D.  Wednesday, March 19^th – After School Movie: Frozen

                E.  Wednesday, March 19^th – Teen Book Club: Nausicaa

                F.  Wednesday, April 2^nd – After School Movie: TBA

                G. Wednesday, April 9^th – After School Movie: TBA

                H. NEXT TAG MEETING: SATURDAY, April 12^th 3:00-4:00pm

Suggestions & Recommendations

Programming

• A musical program like harmonicas, recorders, or tambourines
• Catherine volunteered herself to do a spinning demonstration

Books

• Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah (Melanie)
• The Family Cow by Philip Hasheider (Catherine)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Catherine)

TV

• Bates Motel (MissG)
• Baby Daddy (Catherine)
• Mind Games (Philip)
• Dexter (Philip)
• About a Boy (Catherine)

Movies

• Ice Castles (Melanie)
• Forever Strong (Melanie)
• I Am Legend (Catherine)
• Never Back Down (Melanie)
• Rudy (Melanie)
• Happy Feet 2 (Melanie)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (MissG)
• My Life in Ruins (Catherine)

 Music

• Starbomb (Philip)
•  American Authors (Melanie)
• Augustana (Catherine)
• A Silent Film (Melanie)
• Five for Fighting (Catherine)

Video Games

• Bravely Default (Philip)
• Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (MissG)
• Atelier Meruru (MissG)
• Super Smash Bros Melee (Philip)
• Little Big Planet 2 (Melanie)
• Portal 2 (Philip)
• Super Mario 3D World (Philip)

Websites & Youtube Channels

• gbatemp.net - video games reviews, help, & forums (Philip)
• ravelry.com - knitting & crocheting (Catherine)
• http://www.youtube.com/user/OneyNG - comedy YouTube channel (Philip)

~~NEXT TAG MEETING: SATURDAY, April 12^th 3:00-4:00pm~~

 

Teen Advisory Group January Meeting Notes

Hey YAs,

The Teen Advisory Group met on Saturday for our January meeting.  We had cookies and talked about stuff!

First we discussed ideas for the 2014 Summer Reading Program.  The theme this year is "Spark a Reaction."  Here are the ideas that got thrown out there~

• Sparklers
• Spicy Food (teen cuisine)
• Rockets
• Chemical reactions
• Potions class
• Steampunk
• Make icecream
• Play with zapping ball (shock hot potato)
• Glow in the Dark party

And here are the ideas we have for prizes!

• Movie Tickets
• Amazon gift card
• Portable speakers
• Dance lesson
• Camping kit
• Gamestop giftcard
• a cheap tablet computer like the Tab Nero
• iPod shuffle
• movies
• iTunes giftcard

 Then we did some brainstorming of ideas for the Valentine's Day Murder Mystery.  Won't tell you the details here, cause that would ruin the mystery!  You'll just have to come to the program and figure out who done it for yourself!

We reviewed the upcoming programming~

Wednesday, Jan. 8th - Teen Cuisine: Thai Food
Wednesday, Jan. 15th - After School Movie: Insidious Chapter 2
Saturday, Jan. 18th - Practice SAT
Wednesday, Jan. 22nd - After School Movie: Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters
Wednesday, Jan. 22nd - Stop  Motion Movie Making with Legos
Wednesday, Jan. 29th - After School Movie: Fast and Furious 6
Wednesday, Jan. 29th - Teen Book Club: Steampunk!
Next TAG Meeting: Saturday, Feb. 1st 11:00am

Then we moved on to our suggestions and recommendations portion! 

Program Suggestions

• done above in our Summer Reading brainstorming!

Book Recommendations

• Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare- Jill
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman - Melanie
• Timeline by Michael Crichton - Melanie
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - Catherine
• The Celts in Myth and Legend by Timothy Roberts - Catherine
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer - Clare
• A Study in Scarlet: The Graphic Novel by Ian Edginton and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  - Clare
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Catherine
• Cute and Easy Knitting by Fiona Goble - Jill
• City of Beasts by Isabel Allende - Philip

TV Recommendations

• Dexter - MissG
• The Carrie Diaries - Melanie
• Sons of Anarchy - Catherine
• Big Bang Theory - Philip

 Movie Recommendations

• Starter for 10 - Melanie
• Pacific Rim - Catherine
• Blackfish - Melanie
• Bloodsport - Melanie
• Frozen - MissG
• Stardust - Melanie
• Timeline - Melanie
• White House Down - MissG
• The Whale - Catherine

Music Recommendations

• Goo Goo Dolls - Melanie
• Bastille - Clare
• The Band Perry - Clare
• American Authors - Melanie
• Lorde - Jill
• fun. - Jill
• Mumford & Sons - Catherine
• Guns & Roses - Philip

Video Game Recommendations

• Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon - Philip & Jill
• Mario Kart 7 - Philip
• Animal Crossing - Jill
• Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God - MissG
• Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Jill
• Deadly Creatures - Catherine
• Nintendoland - Philip

Websites & Youtube Channels

• cashcrate.com - Melanie
• goodreads.com - Clare and MissG
• zeldadungeon.net - Philip
• codeacademy.com - Jill
• eyewire.org - Jill
• Youtube Channels - Stuart Edge, Holistic Habits, Conner Franta

 At our next meeting we'll be discussing more ideas for the Murder Mystery.  Hope to see  you on February 1st at 11am!

Teen Advisory Group - December Meeting Notes

Hey YAs,  the TAG met last Saturday for a short, year end meeting.  We mentioned the fact that we will need to start planning soon for the Valentines Murder Mystery in the Library.

The upcoming teen programs are:

Teen Knitting Club - Tuesday, Dec. 10th 7:00-8:00pm
After School Movie: Mortal Instruments - Wednesday, Dec. 11th 3:30-5:30pm
Mockingjay Book Discussion - Tuesday, Dec. 17th 6:00-7:00pm
After School Movie: Despicable Me 2 - Wednesday, Dec. 18th 3:30-5:00pm
Teen Holiday Party - Saturday, Dec. 21st 2:30-4:00pm
Holiday Food Gifts - Monday, Dec. 23rd 4:00-5:00pm
Teen Book Club: Stardust by Neil Gaiman - Special Book + Movie combo - Friday, Dec. 27th 2:00-4:30pm

Program Suggestions

• Wood or soap carving
• dance lesson next year in December

Book Recommendations

• Divergent by Veronica Roth (Hannah)
• Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac (Melanie)
• Fourth Down and Inches by Carla McClafferty (MissG)
• Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Guiley (Catherine)

Movie and TV Recommendations

• Miracle on 34th Street (Catherine)
• Cats and Dogs (Melanie)
• Peter Pan (2003) (Catherine)
• Catching Fire (Miss G & Hannah)
• Sound of Music (Catherine)
• Chuck (Catherine)
• Cleveland Show (Catherine)
• Torchwood (Hannah)
• Tamako Market (Hannah)
• Adventure Time (MissG)
• Grabbers (Miss G)

Music Recommendations

• She and Him (Catherine)
• Mr. Mrs. (Catherine)
• Judy Garland (Catherine)

 Video Game Recommendations

• Avadon 2: The Corruption (MissG)
• Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (Hannah)
• Kingdom Hearts (Philip)

Website Recommendations

• Stumbleupon.com (Melanie)
• the works of David Willis (Philip)
• joyceandwolky.com
• shortpacked.com
• dumbingofage.com
• Ava's Demon (Hannah)

 Our next meeting will be Saturday, Jan. 4th 3:00-4:00pm.  See you then!

Teen Advisory Group - November Meeting Notes

Hey YAs, the TAG met on Saturday and here is what we discussed!

The fundraising at the Durham Fall Fest was a great success!  We gave glitter tattoos to many, children and adults alike!  We earned nearly $100 to use for Young Adult programs and events.  Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time that day to help out.

Tentative programs for Spring 2014 were discussed and when I needed suggestions for another program in April making mini herb gardens or mini terrariums was suggested.  A great idea!

The upcoming programs are:

Teen Knitting Club - Tues. Nov. 12th 7-8
Teen Cuisine: Pizza - Weds. Nov. 13th 4:30-6:30
Catching Fire Book Discussion - Tues. Nov. 19th 6-7
Movie: Hunger Games - Weds. Nov. 20th 3:30pm
Catching Fire Prerelease Party - Weds. Nov. 20th 6:30-8:00pm
Movie: Man of Steel - Weds. Nov. 27th 2pm
Teen Book Club: Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac - Wed. Nov. 27th 5:30-6:30pm

Program Suggestions:

• mini herb gardens
• mini terrariums
• survival/outdoors/edible plants
• pressed flowers
• natural tie dye
• bottle rockets

Books:

• Shadowing: Hunted by Adam Slated (Catherine)
• How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle (Melanie)
• Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (Hannah)
• Stung by Bethany Wiggins (MissG)
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treur (Catherine)

Movies:

• Silver Linings Playbook (Catherine)
• Just Like Heaven (Melanie)
• What's Your Number (Catherine)
• The Hobbit, pt 1 (Hannah)
• 13 Going on 30 (Melanie)
• Forrest Gump (Catherine)

TV:

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Catherine)
• Big Bang Theory (Miss G)
• Dr. Who (Hannah)
• Boy Meets World (Melanie)
• Once Upon a Time (Catherine)
• How I Met Your Mother (Hannah)

 Music:

• Lumineers (Catherine)
• Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack (Catherine)
• Sarah Bareilles (Melanie)
• Keith Urban (Melanie)
• Passenger (Melanie)

Video Games

• Frogger

 Websites:

• eatwild.com

Our next meeting is Saturday, Dec.  7th 3:00-4:00!

Teen Advisory Group Meeting Notes - October

Whoa there!  TAG actually met about a week and a half ago, but this is the first chance I've had to sit down and type out the meeting notes.  Sorry about the delay!

First we discussed the Durham Fall Festival and who would be volunteering that day and what hours.  We also discussed what we would be doing there: glitter tattoos, henna tattoos, guessing games, and selling t shirts.
Then we discussed ideas for the Young Adult area.  The TAG members said that the most important change would be to add more seating.

The upcoming programs are:

• Hunger Games Book discussion - Tuesday, Oct. 22nd 6:00pm
• Movie: Warm Bodies - Wednesday, Oct. 23rd 3:30pm
• Comic Con Halloween Party - Saturday, Oct. 26th 2:30pm
• Movie: The Grudge - Wednesday, Oct. 30th 3:30pm
• Teen Book Club: Zom-B - Wednesday, Oct. 30th 5:30pm
• Movie: After Earth - Wednesday, Nov. 6th 3:30pm
• Practice SAT Test - Saturday, Nov. 9th 12:00-3:00pm

Program Suggestions

• Teen Cuisine: Thai Food, American Food
• Origami
• Snowflakes
• Sailor bracelets
• Fishtail braclets
• friendship bracelets
• survival program
• ballroom dancing
• historical society field trip
• spy party/program

Book Suggestions/Recommendations

• Arson by Estevan Vega
• Everything Civil War 
• Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane

Movie Recommendations - Everyone's Favorite Halloween/Scary Movie

Melanie - Young Frankenstein
Jill - Hocus Pocus
Hannah - Sweeny Todd
Catherine - Corpse Bride
Philip - Beetlejuice
MissG - Ghostbusters

TV Recommendations

• Tomorrow People
• X Files
• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
• Adventure Time
• Futurama
• Merlin

Music Suggestions

• Herman's Hermits
• Lorde
• The Animals
• Joe Stafford
• Zelda music

 Video Game Recommendations

• Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
• Animal Crossing: New Leaf
• Luigi's Mansion

 Website Recommendations
Octopus and Bunny webcomic

Our next meeting is Saturday, Nov. 9th at 3:00.  Hope to see you there!

First Day of Fall!

It's the first day of Fall!  Pretty falling leaves, the Durham Fair, Halloween, apples, pumpkins, and Thanksgiving are ALL COMING!  What are your plans for Fall?  Here is what happening at the library for Teens this October~

Afterschool movies on Wednesdays at 3:30 (Starting in October)
Oct. 2 - Star Trek Into Darkness
Oct. 9 - The Croods
Oct. 16 - Iron Man 3
Oct. 23 - World War Z
Oct. 30 - The Grudge
Nov. 6 - After Earth
Nov. 20 - The Hunger Games
Nov. 27 - Man of Steel

Stop Motion Lego Movies
Wednesday, Oct. 9th 6:00-8:00pm
Stop motion is an animation techiniqe in which you take pictures of something (usually puppets, dolls, or clay figures) and move them slightly for each picture.  When teh pictures are played back to back, it created an animated video!  We will be making short videos using the library's Lego collection.  For a decent example of what could make go to Youtube and view "Lego Camping Troubles Stop Motion Animation"  or just search lego stop motion to see more examples!

 Teen Advisory Group
Sat .Oct. 12th 3:00-4:00pm

Hunger Games book discussions
Tuesday, Oct. 22nd
YA discussion 6:00-7:00
Adult discussion 7:30-8:30

Comic-Con Halloween Party
 Saturday, Oct. 26th 2:30-4:00
Prizes for great costumes!  Also snacks, games, and more!

Teen Book Club: Zom-B by Darren Shan
Tuesday, Oct. 29th 6:30-7:30

Teen Advisory Group Meeting Notes - September

The TAG met this past Saturday and here is what we discussed~

The summer is over and we talked about ideas for improving the Summer Reading Program for next year.  TAG members suggested:

• have suggestion lists for all ages at the desk and put up signs that suggestions are available at the desk
• make it more obvious that we have an adult program
• put up a sign or a take away with basic instructions on how to sign up
• possibly switch to minutes spent reading instead of books read
• have the teen raffles at the end of summer so teens can choose which prize to put their tickets toward

I'm glad we talked it out, I think we got some really good ideas for improving the program for next year!

Next we took a look at the Fall Program brochure, which is now out and available and went over what would be going on.  Specifically we discussed what the theme for the Halloween Party should be.  We decided that it should be Comic Con themed.  Also we agreed to decorate the teen area for Halloween after the next TAG meeting.  A couple different decoration ideas were mentioned including origami bats, orange lights, and painted pumpkins.

After talking Halloween decorations we moved on to discussing the Durham Fall Festival.  MissG told them that the library would be doing some small fundraising on the library lawn and would be looking for volunteers to help out.  There will be henna tattoos, glitter tattoos, guessing games, selling old SRP tshirts, and the new director, Trish Connolly will have a table with promotion material for the library.  MissG forgot to bring up the hours sheet she has for volunteering, so she will pass it around at a later time.

Then we went over the upcoming programs

• Wednesday, Sept. 18th 4:30-6:30pm - Teen Cuisine: Harry Potter (full)
• Tuesday, Sept. 24th 6:30-7:30pm - Teen Book Club: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Afterschool movies on Wednesdays in October at 3:30
• Wednesday, Oct. 9th 6:00-8:00pm - Stop Motion Movies with LEGOs
• Saturday, Oct. 12th 3:00-4:00pm - October TAG Meeting

Finally, we did our suggestions and recommendations portion.

Programs

• Stained glass art
• Origami
• Decorating frames
• Cover binders with fabric
• Quilting
• Belly dancing
• Zumba intro
• Fish tail bracelets
• Smash Bros competition

Books

• Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Hannah)
• The Bride Will Keep Her Name by Jan Goldstein (Catherine)
• When We Wake by Karen Healey (Jill)
• Bonobo Handshake by Vanessa Woods (Clare)
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Melanie)
• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Hannah)
• The Last Wish (Catherine)
• Scott Pilgrim Versus the World by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Hannah)

  Movies

• Safety Not Guaranteed 
• Professor Layton & the Eternal Diva
• Sense and Sensibility
• Wild America
• To Catch a Thief
• Pocahantus
• Liberal Arts
• The Time Travelers Wife
• Inception

TV

• Weeds (Catherine)
• Wonder Over Yonder (Jill)
• Who Do You Think You Are (Catherine)
• Stories from the ER (Catherine)
• Supernatural (Melanie)
• X Files (Melanie)

Music

• Flogging Molly (Catherine)
• Lorde (Jill)
• Eli Young Band (Clare)
• Coldplay (Melanie)
• Jake Owen (Clare)
• Switchfoot (Melanie)

Video Games

• Sims 3 (MissG)
• Animal Crossing (Jill)
• Windwaker (Jill)
• Sonic Collection (Jill)
• Black Ops 2 (Philip)
• Portal & Portal 2 (Philip)

 Websites

• www.soundcloud.com (Catherine)
• www.misshomemade.com (Catherine)
• www.etsy.com (Catherine)
• www.feelafraidcomic.com (Hannah)

Great meeting!  See you all again on Saturday, Oct. 12th at 3pm!