Last night, our TSRP tried out a cell phone game @ the mall.  It went… terrific!  I’m posting it here to share with other libraries serving teens because (a.) it was cheap — the only cost was prizes and gas to get to the mall, and (b.) it was A BIG HIT with the seventeen [...]

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The Scoop reported recently that library teen service providers in the Boise Basin have formed a group to share ideas.  I’m a little jealous, because Jerome is just too far away for me to participate.  So then I started thinking that maybe Magic Valley library teen people could follow suit.  I don’t know how practical [...]

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Libraries all over are excited about summer reading, teen summer reading, adult summer programs, and, well, summer.  Here in Jerome, we have five more reasons to be excited this summer… five summer interns!
Steve Poppinoat the College of Southern Idaho helped us arrange for our interns to get college credit for their experience at the library.  [...]

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Different,Yet Cuiously Alike
This is what I’m passionate about kids learning today.  It might be something else tomorrow, and yesterday it was about staying true to convictions in the face of pressure.
This meme has hit libraries, and you may have seen it on other blogs.  I can’t remember where I saw it first — I wasn’t [...]

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NPR’s Story Corp podcasts have been one of my very favorite things to listen to since I got an iPod from my personal Santa.  StoryCorps definition of itself is:
“Since 2003, almost 30,000 everyday people have shared life stories with family and friends in our StoryBooths. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved [...]

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Shirley at ICFL posted this link on LIBIDAHO to a slick, informative, and all around terrific resource about librarians, libraries, and library careers.  I could have used this site when I went to the local high school for the career fair — and I will use it next time.  The site was created by an MLIS student [...]

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