Native-American Arts for Young Adults

Today, young adults enjoyed a Native-American cultural experience
led by an Apache-Blackfoot, Rose Figueroa. Figueroa, who served as
Exhibition Specialist and Developer for the Southwest Museum of Native
American Art, instructed teens (and parents, who were itching for their
turn) in the native art of basket-weaving.
The pics feature the 16 teens that the event attracted (25
people participated, including the parents).
(Also included is a shot of simple Easter basket crafting after story
time.)

Teen Tech Week, Tuesday through Thursday

This week, we used the Young Adult Library Services
Association Teen Tech Week Grant monies to learn about collection
development in a hands-on manner, by spending $350 together on books for
the young adult collection from amazon.com. The remainder of the grant
funding was dedicated to gift cards --- every day that teens attended a
TTW program, they received one entry in the drawing for gift cards from
EB Games, Starbucks, Bath & Body Works, Jamba Juice, and Barnes & Noble.

On our opening day, Tuesday, teens participated in a digital photography
class, then uploaded pics to an online photography resource. Wednesday,
the young adults created a photo book online to be printed by
shutterfly.com for the library. YAs also shot pics of story time
families and helped the young participants create frames for their new
family photos with Flip-Flap Jack (see attached). Today, an information
literacy session was followed by an intense scavenger hunt, pizza,
online book-shopping, and gift bags containing frisbees and earbuds from
Teen Services. Tomorrow, teens will play video and board games, ably
assisted by gaming aficionado Josh I.

Comments:

Hands-On Digital Photography Class
"Loved it." - Sara G., 11th gr.
"I like it here, because you get to find out about cameras." - Guadalupe
R., 6th gr.

Story Time Photo Frames
"It's pretty awesome. I got to meet new people." - Joanne M., 8th gr.

Info Lit Class & Scavenger Hunt
"It's cool. Nice games. Learned lots of stuff." - Jose R., 6th gr.
"I loved it; it was fun and exciting!" - Kayla K., 10th gr.
"T'is was fun. Yayness!" - Elia V., 11th gr.

Suggestions for future programs:
All 5 requests were for fashion and painting programs!
* A big thank you to our sponsors, Dungeons & Dragons, Young Adult
Library Services Association, and The Friends of the Library!!!

Balloon Animal Class

This afternoon, library kids hosted a balloon animal-making workshop for their peers, with the help of teen volunteers. Next, we had a fun information literacy session followed by a scavenger hunt for books. The children worked in teams, and everyone earned a prize.

Story Time --- Jellyfish Craft

Teen volunteers assisted with a jellyfish art project at family story
time today!
Toddler story time featured a fun make-your-own-fish-bowl activity.

Teen-a-Palooza III

We have been especially busy during these rainy days, as three programs over the past two days each attracted 30 participants. Our final Teen-A-Palooza of the year included Wii/DDR/GH II gaming & a Christmas tree ornament sewing project.

Young Adult Evaluation Form Comments:

"The program is awesome, because you got to sew." Jesus L., 9th grade

Young Adult Suggestions for Future Programs:

"Maybe a cooking activity?" - Melissa L., 11th grade
"Field trips!" - Nancy G., 9th grade

Toddler Story Time

I can't believe that we had 15 people at toddler story time today. I think that may be a new record for that noon time slot! Here are some nice pics from the special needs class and toddler story time.

Toddler & Special Needs Story Times

I can't believe that we had 15 people at toddler story time today. I think that may be a new record for that noon time slot! Here are some nice pics from the special needs class and toddler story time.