Using Blogger's text to blog service to Thank Project Compass for a Scholarship to attend 3 EXCELLENT workforce recovery workshops at the MN Library Association Conference in Duluth this week!

Looking forward to Teen Read Week.
OCT 16-22!

More Things on a Stick to Ponder

Want to keep up on more things for Library 2.0? What a wonderful service. I so appreciate MN's multi-county multi-type systems! Thanks SAMMIE. Look HERE for THING 70!

Animation w/ MIT's Scratch Program

If you want to learn how to do this ;) Visit the SCRATCH web site by clicking on the animation! Want us to teach you? Call the library at 320-857-2550!

2.0 Progress?

Our little library has had a DIY online presence for
over two years and, by gum, folks are really starting to
(on purpose!) visit our blogspot/facebook to connect to us!

Today we had a compliment from a patron who appreciated
our one-click calendar being up-to-date! This would have
never been possible without the 23 things on a stick exercise,
which propelled us unto the Internet. WOO-HOOO!!

Languishing No More

FYI! Pioneerland Library System

Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain

Went to a seminar last week given by Erin Walsh, daughter of Dr. David Walsh, who wrote the best selling book, "Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen. The SAMMIE Library cooperative hosted. We are trying to prepare ourselves to better serve teens. Libraries do a great job with little kids, but we have a ways to go with teens.
Was working in a bigger library on Saturday and had a conversation with a 12 year old who was checking out audio books. She said, "I don't have time to read a whole book, that's why I like poetry." It made me think about how much our teen and college grad children text. Texting is a lot like poems. Concise and to the point. I asked the girl if she had ever participated in a poetry slam? "What's that?"