Teen Read Week

Next week it ALA's Teen Read Week the 8th-14th.

http://teenreadweek.ning.com/

Have any Fun Ideas? Please share and i'll post early next Week

Teen Read Pinterest Ideas

YALSA has List of 50 ideas for the week--some good some not so good but you canb be your own judge.

• 1. Extend library hours
• 2. Add lots of paperbacks to the collection
• 3. Open House with food and volunteers to explain teen activities
• 4. Set up a Suggestion Box—then post suggestions with responses
• 5. Establish a Teen Advisory Group
• 6. Design and set up a website/blog/Facebook location
• 7. Collect and post teen reviews [offer some instruction in review writing]
• 8. Amnesty Week to coincide with TRW
• 9. Sleep-in with teens reading all night, followed by breakfast
• 10. Books to Movies festival
• 11. Ask an English professor or teacher to host a 'so you want to be a writer' program
• 12. Host a book weeding party & ask teens for recommendations for new titles
• 13. Host a Skype session with a YA author
• 14. Organize a field trip to a literary landmark
• 15. Books on the bus --work with schools to offer books for teens to read to/from school
• 16. Cake Decorating Contest -- based on a YA book
• 17. Redesign a book jacket contest
• 18. Plan an Anime/Manga Character Party
• 19. Passive program: bookmark contest
• 20. Host a local author book fair
• 21. Passive program: have teens create book spine poetry
• 22. Organize a party at a location away from the library & bring the book mobile
• 23. Host a program about the creative writing process
• 24. Offer book giveaways for teens who are 'caught reading'
• 25. Visit local community centers, after school programs, etc. to hand out library cards
• 26. Organize a Late Night Library Scavenger Hunt in the YA section
• 27. Create crafts with discarded books or magazines
• 28. Hold a Teens' Top Ten announcement party
• 29. Librarian Challenge [offer something silly in exchange for # books/pages read]
• 30. Tie in with Halloween -- host a readers' theater with spooky stories
• 31. Create teen-produced Public Service Announcements about the library
• 32. Host a Mock Printz program
• 33. Family Activity—teens read to younger kids at library
• 34. Passive program: which book would you save from a fire & why?
• 35. Organize trivia contests about famous YA authors or titles
• 36. Have a Teen Space Make-Over to spruce up the teen area
• 37. Display photos of teens reading
• 38. School-wide read-in [during the day; after school; at a mall, etc.]
• 39. Host a Human Book event, where experts come & talk -- ask teens in advance which 'human books they'd most like to see
• 40. Create a bulletin board filled with book title suggestions from teens
• 41. Publish teen book reviews in the local paper
• 42. Have teens read books to kids at hospital, day care centers, etc.
• 43. Organize a paperback and/or Comic Book swap
• 44. Host an inter-generational book group
• 45. Challenge teens to create Haiku poems and share them on Twitter
• 46. Reward super readers with tickets to a local concert
• 47. Organize a book drive for service personnel overseas
• 48. Plan a radio talk show interview about teens and reading
• 49. Write an email or letter to your favorite author
• 50. Host a read-a-thon of teen authored stories & poems

Looking for some Weekend fun?

The New York State Museum is celebrating National Chemistry Day with a fun free event.

Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says "I think I'll have an H2O." The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too" — and he died.

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/national-chemistry-day-chemistry-rocks

The day’s activities include interactive chemistry demonstrations, fun hands-on activities, experiments and door prizes. There is also a student-illustrated poetry contest. Create an illustrated poem at the event or bring yours to the Museum by noon. Categories for prizes are K–2nd; 3rd–4th; 5th–8th and 9th–12th.

New this year: Minerals Rock! Explore the Minerals of New York exhibit and hunt to find the minerals within Adirondack rocks with NYS Museum Educator Hatti Langsford.

Around the System

Here is a quick look at some of the programs coming up at our libraries--super cool.