Have you ever wondered, “Is there a way I can see what’s new at the library?” If not, are you wondering that now? Lane Libraries has a great service called Wowbrary. If you go to www.lanepl.org, on the right hand side (under Find it at Lane) are various links. Click where is says New Titles.
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Ok, so during the summer I did some Para para and we had a demo at Toshokan and stuff. People really seemed to enjoy it, so then when I had a podcast scheduled in August, we decided to film some of our para para! Sorry it took so long to finish it up, I had [...]
The Lane Libraries invite teens 13 - 18 to celebrate all things Japanese during the fifth annual Toshokan Fest at the Fairfield Lane Public Library on Saturday, July 19 from 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Cincinnati Go Club will join us to demonstrate the ancient Japanese game Go. There will be Tokyo Pop music, [...]
To celebrate Teen Tech Week (March 2-8, 2008), combine two of your favorite things, reading and your iPod! (Or any other mp3 player) Create a playlist with at least five songs to go along with your favorite book and turn it in to your local teen Librarian, or post it in the comments section of this [...]
Congrats to everyone who participated in our Guitar Hero Tournament! Here’s how the scoring broke down:
Guitar Hero III Battle Mode Tournament Winner: Matt T. (3 wins, 0 losses)
Guitar Hero II Co-op Tournament Winners: Matt T. (100%) & David S. (98%) total score = 181,927
AJ (97%) & Robert (93%) total score = 147,154
Dalton C. (85%) & Danny [...]
It’s almost Halloween! Here’s some horrifing treats for the season:
Hellboy: Wake the Devil (a monster fight’n monsters)
The Misfits and The Misfits: Collection II (legendary punk band with a love for horror)
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray (supernatural mystery set in victorian England)
Coraline (goth fairytale from the author of The Sandman)
The month of June was full of fun at the Hamilton branch.
The Terrible Taste Test was full of icky goodness. Teens participated in sampling the gross goodies including dried squid, limburger cheese, atomic hot sauce, pickled duck eggs and chocolate covered bugs. I tried the dried squid (it smelled like fish flakes), the duck eggs (very salty) [...]
Hey — Last Friday night I went downtown to the 1st Annual Desdemona Music Festival and got to see The Wu Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah! I’d just ordered copies of his new CD, “Fishscale,” for the library (Click Here to Find It). The concert was great — he tore the stage up, it was phenominal [...]
Fairfield DDR contest winners:
The undefeated Tony S. won the first round and the astonishing Ashley D. won round 2!
They both walked away with $10 gift certificates to “Books-A-Million” — but everybody who competed was a great sport making the whole event alot of fun!
Be sure to check out the next DDR contest at Hamilton next Thursday [...]
