Teen Tech Week (March 7-13, 2010) celebrates the non-print resources in the library. Come play a video game (tournament @ the Mattapan Branch on Tuesday and Friday), use our computers to play online (have you seen Games for Change yet?), and make sure you look at the games you can check out and take home (here are the links for our PS2, PS3, Wii, and XBox 360 collections).
Posts Tagged ‘teens’
What’s new with Teen Books?
Posted on February 21st, 2010 by ccheever@private.bpl.org in Books, Events| Did you enjoy the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books? How about the Internet Girl series (ttyl, ttfn, l8r g8r, and bff)? Maybe Earl Sewell’s Decision Time or L.J. Smith’s Vampire Diaries are more your thing? Wondering what books are going to be coming out this spring and summer that you may like? Come over to the Mattapan Library on Thursday, February 25th at 2 PM for a one hour special presentation from the same publishers who brought us these books to learn about what they’re excited about releasing next.Can’t make it to Mattapan? Ask your favorite librarian to register and watch at your home library. Here’s a link for them: http://bit.ly/bHhGCd. Can’t make it this Tuesday? Leave me a comment and I’ll get in touch with you and we can schedule a repeat presentation.
Here’s a flyer (pdf) to download and hang up at your school. |
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Summer Jobs! Register for the Boston Youth Fund Hopeline
Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Akunna in ResourcesThe Boston Youth Fund Hopeline is opening online registration for youth summer jobs (ages 15-17) from February 16 through March 15. Copley Library’s Teen Room will have a computer available for online registration during Winter Vacation, February 16-19.
Visit your nearest branch library to access the online registration.
Go here for more information on Boston Youth Fund’s summer employment: http://www.bostonyouthzone.com/teenzone/employment/byf/
2009 TEEN TOP TEN BOOKS
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by ccheever@private.bpl.org in Booksas voted by teens nationwide:
Yesterday we posted the video announcement for the top winner, Paper Towns by John Green.
Now you can see the entire list here.
Teen TV
Posted on October 13th, 2009 by ccheever@private.bpl.org in Events, NewsThe TEEN TV season premier and reception is happening tomorrow, Wednesday, October 14th at at English High School, 144 McBride Street, in Jamaica Plain at 5 PM. Come view three new episodes that will soon start airing on Boston’s local access cable channels, Comcast 23 and RCN 83.
Teen TV is a summer intensive media literacy and media production workshop that is part of HOME‘s Media Lab Partner-ship with public schools that includes Brighton High School, English High School, and the Social Justice Academy. The Teen TV television show is written, filmed, produced and edited by Boston area teens, and airs on local cable stations an online at blip.tv.
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