If you haven’t noticed the Super Bowl is this weekend, and my teens are extremely invested in which side wins. While the game will be broadcast after most libraries are closed, there’s no reason you can’t kickoff the weekend with a football playlist running in your teen room. I’ve pulled together 25 of the most […]
Tag: programming
Opportunity at QZAP
Hi friends and fans, We’re reaching out to ask for help because we’re growing in ways that exceed our current expertise. We are seeking an extraordinary person to join our collective zine archiving project as a volunteer codemonkey/hacker/webdork programmer to help us fix and maintain our website at archive.qzap.org. The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) […]
Sports Crafts
With the Summer Olympics coming in August and the iRead and CSRP themes this year centering around sports themes, there is no better time to take a look at some favorite sports crafts. While the summer sports tend to focus on baseball, swimming, soccer, and rugby, I’ve found that any type of sports crafts are a […]
Anime Crafts
I think if I didn’t do an anime/manga craft every so often my teens would revolt. They are so into their favorite series that they would stalk my office waiting for new volumes and give me pages and pages of suggestions for new series that we should have carried. Sadly, we never had the budget […]
Bookish Crafts
I am a movie lover. I am also a book lover. So when the two combine I get extremely excited. When there’s spinoffs of concepts, such as this weekend’s release of The Huntsman: Winter’s War, it brings out the geek in me and I want to bring out some of my favorite bookish crafts. Having been […]
Resist Art Ideas
I’ve always been drawn to resist art. For those who aren’t sure what I’m talking about, resist art is art that is created by layering two different and incompatible mediums (or techniques) together, and then removing one to reveal the space beneath. You see it used a lot with negative space art- people will put down […]
Fandom Sensory Bottles
In September over on Teen Services Underground, Faythe wrote about creating glitter jars with her teens and how big of a hit it was. If you missed it, the article is here. She used small jars, and then what over here in Orlando they call fairy or pixie dust jars, itty bitty baby jars that look […]
Star Wars and Glass Jars (No Jar-Jar)
With the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the upcoming Star Wars Holidays, I’ve pulled together three of my favorite jar crafts and put Star Wars variations on them for library programs.
Star Wars: A Year of Programming, Part 3
We’ve hit spring and summer, so today I’m taking a look at ways to integrate Star Wars in new ways throughout the fall and winter months. August sees the biggest shift in programming dynamics within public and school libraries- public libraries see their tweens and teens starting back up with school activities long before […]
Halloween ComicFest
Today, I’m over at Cosplay, Comics and Geek Culture in Libraries talking about Halloween ComicFest. Launched in 2012 by the awesome people who have been bringing you Free Comic Book Day, Halloween ComicFest works to bring free comics into the hands of readers over Halloween. Click on over to CCGCLibraries to read about why you should […]