Teen Open Mic Night

The Coshocton Public Library
presents

Teen Open Mic Night

Share your talents

Poetry

Rap

Guitar

Song

Sing-a-longs

You create the entertainment!

Come for an evening of friends, food, and fun

in a coffeehouse setting.

April 24, 7 to 8:30pm.
Call RoseMary at 622-0956 for details.
Sign up here.

Animanga Club Birthday Party

The Coshocton Public Library Animanga Club is 2 years old this month! We will celebrate with a slide show of our events, learning to write kanji with brush and ink on rice paper, and of course, have a birthday cake!

If you are a manga or anima fan, you will enjoy sharing your interest with fellow fans. Club members get first dibs on new manga and anime and preview anime, advise me on what series to buy for the collection, and learn all kinds of things about Japanese culture.

When: Wednesday, April 8, 2008, 5-7 pm
Where: coshocton Public Library large meeting room

Teen Open Mic Night

The Coshocton Public Library

presents

Teen Open Mic Night

Share your talents
Poetry
Rap
Guitar
Song
Sing-a-longs
You create the entertainment!

Come for an evening of friends, food, and fun
in a coffeehouse setting.

April 24, 7 to 8:30pm.

Call RoseMary at 622-0956 for details.

Sign up here.

Plugged and Unplugged

Wednesday after school 2-5 pm in the large meeting room!

Movies, pizza, ww games, Internet, board games... friends and fun!

Come and meet Nate Malenke. He will be helping out with Plugged and Unplugged and Animanga Club!

Teen Tech Week!

Tune In @ Your Library

Did you know Coshocton Public Library has Music, Internet, CD ROMS, Music CDs, Video Games, Audio Books and more for teens?!

And great tech programs like Plugged and Unplugged and DIY WIKI?

If not, then you are missing out on friends, fun, food, and learning a bit more about today's technology.

So check it out!

Plugged and Unplugged
Every Wednesday afternoon after school, 2-5 pm
Movies, video and board games, Internet, refreshments

DIY WIKI
March 7, 3:00 to 4:30
Learn how to create your own space in cyberspace!
Register online or call the library at 622-0956.

DYI WIKI

Ever wanted a place on cyberspace completely all your own?

Come to

DIY WIKI

Friday, March 7, 2008

3-4:30 pm

Large Meeting Room

Grades 7-12

Create links to pages, start discussion forums, upload Youtube skits and much, much more!

Register at the Reference Desk or on our website at www.coshoctonlibrary.org/teens

We have winners!

Five lucky teens and their Valentines won a bag of gifts that will make Valentine's Day even sweeter! They completed the Name That Candy quiz in the teen room of the library to enter the prize drawing.

Twenty seven teens spent yesterday afternoon at Plugged and Unplugged, our after school program. Specially fun because there was no school yesterday, it was a good time to spend with friends playing games and talking and snacking! Don't miss it next Wednesday, 2-5 pm in the large meeting room.

Next Tuesday, February 19, will be the Teen Writers Club next meeting at 4-5 pm in the small meeting room. If you love to write already or would like to improve your writing skills, this is the club for you. Chase Will leads us in writing exercises and gives us encouragement by sharing his readings and experience.

Check out the new books in the Teen Room at the library!

Catching Up!

The last few times I've tried to post on the blog, the server wasn't cooperating!

Here is what is coming up for teens at the library:

The Teen Writers Club is meeting in the small meeting room on February 5th and 19th at 4-5 pm. Chase Will leads the group, inspiring us to write with prompts and tips. You can sign up here.

The Animanga Club invites teens to a manga drawing workshop led by Russull Merritt on Wednesday, February, 5-7 pm in the large meeting room. Sign up here.

The weekly Plugged and Unplugged After School Club meets Each Wednesday in February. Teens are invited to use the Internet, play wii and PS2 and watch movies. Refreshments provided. 2-5 pm in the large meeting room

Teens Talk Books will meet on February 28th. If you love books and want to see what's new and talk about what you like to read, this is the club for you! 4-5 pm in the large meeting room.

Stop by the Teen Room in the library to play Name That Candy and win a Valentine package for you and your friend or sweetheart!

Next Animanga Club Meeting

On February 6 at 5 pm, Russell Merritt will return for "Hands, Feet and Flying Around", a drawing workshop for manga fans. Sign up HERE

Plugged and Unplugged

Stop in today afterschool for Internet, video and board games, movies, friends, and fun! Refreshments provided. For Teens Only!

Teen Writers Club

This month there is a time, date, AND location change for the Teen Writers Club meeting!

Tuesday, January 8, at 6-7 pm in the small meeting room (go through the children's room).

Chase Will leads the group with writing tips and exercises. Bring your writing to share!

Into the New Year!

Have a great holiday and when the new year rolls around, come to the library for these events:

Plugged and Unplugged
January 2, 2008
Wednesday 2-5 pm
Games, Internet, movies, and snacks after school!

Animanga Club Meeting
January 2, 2008
Wednesday, 5-7 pm
Russell Merritt will be here! Learn to draw Backgrounds, Landscapes and Mythical Beasts with a real artist!

DIY WIKI

Coshocton Public Library
Presents

DIY WIKI

Friday, January 25th, 3:00-4:30pm

in the large meeting room.

Learn to create your Wiki using wetpaint.com!

Open to Teens ONLY!
Register online or at the Reference Desk

Plugged and Unplugged

Internet, video games, board games, movies, and snacks after school on Wednesday, 2-5 pm!

Note: There will be No Plugged and Unplugged on December 26 when you are enjoying your family and Christmas gifts! See you back at the library on January 2, 2008!

Teen Writers Club

Hey all you writers!

The Teen Writers Club will meet TOMORROW at 4 pm in the large meeting room. Chase Will is heading up the club now and is eager to share writing ideas and tips with you. Stop in and check it out!

Animanga Club Marathon

The Animanga Club is celebrating the holidays with an EIGHT HOUR anime marathon on Saturday, December 8th, noon to 8 pm. (The regular meeting on Wednesday is cancelled for December)

Bring food to share... a snack, a drink, or something for dinner.
Anime related games, artwork, movies, etc are welcome!

You can come in ONCE throughout the day and stay as long as you like.

Next TAB Meeting

The next Teen Advisory Board meeting will be Monday, November 26, at 4 pm. We will be decorating the YA room for the holidays.

Teen Writers Club

TODAY!

The Teen Writers Club is meeting today at 4 pm in the large meeting room. Chase Will is our fearless leader! Come and help create the club YOU want to help you with your writing.

November Teen Events @ Coshocton Public Library

Teen Writers Club
Tuesday, November 06, 4:00PM-5:00PM, Large Meeting Room
Teen writers are invited to share their writing, get writing tips, write to prompts.

Plugged and Unplugged
Unwind after school at the library. Every Wednesday afternoon, 2-5 pm, the meeting room is open for teens only! Surf the Internet, play video and board games, watch movies! Refreshments provided.

Animanga Club
Wednesday, November 07, 5:30PM-7:00PM, Large Meeting Room
Fans of manga and anime meet each month to preview anime, discuss manga, share web sites, learn about Japanese culture, draw and much, much more!

Yu-Gi-Oh Club
Saturday, November 10, 2:00PM-5:15PM, Large Meeting Room
Yu-Gi-Oh fans can come and play and train for tournaments. Bring your Yu-Gi-Oh stuff and a snack. Contact Josh Newman, 623-0199 for more information. All ages welcome.

Altered Books Workshop
Monday, November 19, 6:30PM-8:30PM, Large Meeting Room
Create a work of art from an old book! Books and craft supplies provided. You can bring special articles and pictures for your book.

Teen Advisory Board
Monday, November 26, 3:45PM-5:00PM, Large Meeting Room
Monthly meeting for teens, grades 7-12, who would like to help plan teen programs, volunteer, and select YA materials for the teen room. Applications for the TAB are in the Teen Room.

Teens Talk Books
Thursday, November 29, 4:00PM-5:00PM, Large Meeting Room
Teens, grades 7-12 are invited to talk about their favorite books over pizza. RoseMary will share new books, interesting information about authors, awards, and new titles.

What's Happening This Week @ the Library for Teens

Tuesday is Teen Writer's Club at 4 pm. This club is for you if you are interested in creative writing and want to get together with other teen writers.

Wednesday is Plugged and Unplugged, our weekly afterschool game and movie program. Unwind and relax in the middle of the week with friends and try out wii and PS2 games, surf the net, and watch a movie. Afterschool until 5 pm.

Wednesday is also Animanga Club at 5 pm. For anime and manga fans to share their interests, check out any new stuff and preview anime. Sometimes we get into other things like cooking, Cosplay, learning Japanese, drawing and playing games!

Hope to see you at the library this week!

Teen Advisory Board Meeting

The next Teen Advisory Board meeting will be Monday, October 29th, at 4 pm. Teens in grades 7 through 12 are invited to get involved with planning programs for teens at the library and selecting materials for the young adult collection.

Pick up an application in the young adult room.

Plugged and Unplugged

Looking for something to do after school?

Stop by the library for Internet surfing, video games, board games, snacks, and movies!

Teens Only!

Wednesday, October 24, 2-5 pm

Duane M. Abel, cartoonist for ZED comics, will be leading a comics drawing workshop this evening at 7 pm at the Coshocton Public Library. After the workshop, Duane will autograph his comics, available for only $4 each. One lucky teen will win a whole set! Click here to sign up now!
This program is part of our Teen Read Week celebration!

New Teen Calendar

We have a new calendar that should make it much easier to find the programs you want to attend at the library!
Bookmark this link to see what's going on. If you want to sign up, you just click on the hand at the far right of the program description.

Teen Calendar

It's Teen Read Week!

Teen Read Week is an initiative from YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) to celebrate teens and reading and libraries. Coshocton Public Library celebrates every year with a display, a survey, a prize giveaway and a special program.


Check out the cool Teen Read Week display case at the library. The design was chosen by the Teen Advisory Board and photos of teens at the programs throughout the year are featured.

Pick up a survey in the young adult room and tell us what you like to read. Take the survey to the reference desk and pick out a prize bag!

Come to "Cartooning with Duane" on Thursday night. Duane Abel, the cartoonist for ZED comics will be conducting a drawing workshop for teens. 7 to 8 pm. Sign up here!

Plugged and Unplugged

Looking for something to do after school? Stop by the library for Internet surfing, video games, board games, snacks, and movies!

Teens Only!

Wednesday, October 10, 2-5 pm

See you there!

Teen Read Week

Libraries all across the nation (including Coshocton Public Library!) are celebrating TEENS and READING and LIBRARIES during October! LOL @ your library!

Take the Smart Girl Reading Survey! (IT's for Guys, too!)

You can chat to 31 authors in 31 days at ReaderGirlz. Look at this awesome schedule!
Week One
October 1st: Meg Cabot
October 2nd: Tiffany Trent
October 3rd: Brent Hartinger
October 4th: Lorie Ann Grover
October 5th: K.L. Going
October 6th: Nikki Grimes
Week Two
October 7th: Ellen Hopkins
October 8th: Justina Chen Headley
October 9th: Chris Crutcher
October 10th: Ann Brashares
October 11th: Sarah Mlynowski
October 12th: Cecil Castellucci
October 13th: Kirby Larson
Week Three
October 14th: Tanya Lee Stone
October 15th: John Green
October 16th: Sara Zarr
October 17th: Deb Caletti
October 18th: Rachel Cohn
October 19th: Kirsten Miller
October 20th: Mitali Perkins
Week Four
October 21st: Sonya Sones
October 22nd: Lisa Yee
October 23rd: Carolyn Mackler
October 24th: E. Lockhart
October 25th: Janet Lee Carey
October 26th: Gaby Triana
October 27th: Lauren Myracle
Week Five
October 28th: Holly Black
October 29th: Cynthia Leitich Smith
October 30th: Dia Calhoun
October 31st: Stephenie Meyer (Special time: 9 PM PST/MIDNIGHT EST)

You can vote for Teens Top Ten books at Teens Top Ten . Voting begins October 14.

Come to "Cartooning with Duane" at the Coshocton Public Library on Thursday October 18, 7-8 pm for a cartooning lesson with Duane Abel, the cartoonist for ZED comics!

Check out the display case!

Fill out a survey in the YA room, give it to the reference librarian, pick out a prize!

September Stuff

School is in full swing now with football, band, homework... take a break at the library!

Plugged and Unplugged: Every Wednesday you can drop in after school until 5 pm for video and board games, Internet, movies, and snacks in the large meeting room. We have laptops, Nintendo wii, Playstation 2. You are welcome to bring your games to share and bring a friend. Teens only!

Check out one of our clubs:

Animanga Club: discuss manga and anime, preview anime, get first dibs on additions to the collection, learn about Japanese cluture.

Teens Talk Books: discuss new books, favorite books, and what you're reading. We meet the last Thursday of each month at 4 pm.

Teen Advisory Board: plan programs, shop for books and select music for the young adult collection, volunteer! We meet on the last Monday of each month at 4 pm.

Teen Writers Club: get writing tips and prompts, share what you write with other teen writers. We meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 4 pm.

Teen Tech Club: plan techie programs. We meet during Plugged and Unplugged on the last Wednesday of each month.

Animanga Club Meeting AND New Type Magazine!

Our next Animanga Club meeting will be Wednesday, September 5, 5-7 pm. Come early to Plugged and Unplugged (2-5 pm) and check out our new wii games and PS2 with Guitar Hero 2!
Let's plan a marathon this fall!

We just got our first issue of New Type! The new issue is kept at the main desk, where you can sign it out to read in the library. When the next issue comes, the past issues will be kept in the YA room.

New Games on Wednesday!

Thanks to the Wal-mart Foundation, the library was able to purchase a Playstation 2, Guitar Hero, Boogie for the Nintendo wii, and Raving Rabbits for the wii! Stop in afterschool tomorrow and check it out! Teens only in the large meeting room, 2-5 pm. Snacks provided thanks to the Friends of the Library.

Back to School

Two days left and then school is back in session! Let the library help you make this the best school year ever!

We have high speed Internet access and databases for researching and homework. You can reserve computer time by calling the library at 622-0956.

We have the books you need for book reports and book discussions, plus Cliff Notes and Masterplots.

We have Plugged and Unplugged after school on Wednesdays, 2-5 pm, in the large meeting room where you can do homework, visit with friends, snack, and hang out. Board and video games, movies, and Internet will be ready and waiting.

We have magazines, graphic novels, comic books, music, and movies for when you need a break at home.

Make visiting the library part of your school schedule!

Plugged and Unplugged

Keep cool with your friends at the library on Wednesday afternoons at Plugged and Unplugged. Internet, video and board games, movies, snacks.... a multimedia extravaganza from 2-5 pm! Teens ages 12 to 19 are invited.

August Events

August is around the corner and there are still things to do at the library....

August 8, 15, 22, 29, 2-5 pm Plugged and Unplugged Game Day. We'll start right after school when school starts.

August 7, 4-5 pm Teen Writers Club meeting.

August 8, 5-7 pm Animanga Club meeting.

August 10, 7-10 pm Garage Band Concert on the deck. WE NEED BANDS for this event. Call me at the library, 740-622-0956.

August 27, 4-5 pm Teen Advisory Board meeting.

August 30, 4-5 pm Teens Talk Books meeting.

See you at the Library!

Summer Reading Program Finale

Sunday, July 29, 7:30 to 9 pm, is the Pool Party at the Lake Park Aquatic Center. Free for all SRP participants, but you must pick up your ticket at the library this week!

Final weekly prize drawing is this week and the $50 grand prize drawing will be at the pool party. Finish up anything you are reading and get your rating slips in for more chances to win!

Teens Talk Books will meet Thursday, 4-5 pm to talk about Agatha Christie books.

MONOPOLY Champ!

Kris Hains, age 18, is the 2007 Teen Monopoly Tournament champ! Kris was the high scoring player in the final round Saturday afternoon at the library. Kris won $50 in Coshocton County Bucks and a new MONOPOLY game.

The players enjoyed a pizza lunch, other prizes and trying out the new Nintendo wii purchased by the library.

Thank you to the Friends of the Library for the prize money and pizza lunch, Hasbro for the MONOPOLY games and the Coshocton Foundation for the funds to purchase the wii.

Read about the MONOPOLY Tournament in the Coshocton Tribune!

This week @ the library

Teen Writers Club

Tuesday 3-5 pm

Large Meeting Room

Plugged and Unplugged Game Day

Wednesday 2-5 pm

Large Meeting Room

Animanga Club

Wednesday 5-7 pm

Large Meeting Room

Teen MONOPOLY Tournament

Saturday 9:30 am-2:30 pm

Large Meeting Room

Sign up here!

Weekly Prize Drawings

Read and come to programs to enter!

Check it out in the YA room!

Garage Band Concert!

Garage Band Concert

August 10, 2007
7-10 pm
Coshocton Public Library

Got a Band who wants to play?

Contact RoseMary
at the library
740-622-0956

Teen Film Festival Tonight!

Featured Films

Coke

Katherine Stevenson
Shalee Nys
Nathan Owens
Katy Susil

The Newscast

Derek Tupper
Andy Ketcham

Arc of Time

Anthony Portillo
Nicole Dubosh
Nathan Owens

The films were created for the
Teen Filmmaking Contest beginning
January 2, 2007 and ending June 1, 2007.

This week @ the library

We had our first prize drawing for YNK @ the library and 6 lucky teens won cool backpacks, purses, and totes with mystery prizes inside! There were 83 entries in the drawing.

Wednesday is Plugged and Unplugged Game Day. Open time on the laptops, video and board games for teens only, ages 12 to 19, in the large meeting room.

Teen Summer Reading Has Begun!

You just can't be bored this summer with all this going on!

Every Monday we will have a PRIZE DRAWING. To enter, fill out a rating slip for each book you read and each programs you attend this summer! Keep reading for a final $50 grand prize!

Already this week, we've had a Teen Writers Club meeting, a Plugged and Unplugged Game Day, and an Animanga Club mini marathon... all just for teens!

Pick up a YA Today Newsletter and check this blog to keep up with what is happening this summer for teens!

Teens Talk Books

Here's what the Teens Talk Books Club chose from the new books:
Runaway
Going Nowhere Faster
Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake

Here is what they've been reading:
Arieona: eight Orca Soundings books!
Arien: the SASS series
Arieanda: Hell Phone
RoseMary: Twilight on CD

Everyone is going to choose an Agatha Christie book at the next TTB meeting for our mystery YNK SRP read.

Are YOU Ready?

Summer reading begins Monday!

Enter weekly prize drawings!

Check out all the summer events just for teens:

http://www.coshoctonlibrary.org/teens/

Sign up for events here:

http://www.libraryevents.org/bycat.aspx?ID=3&lib=3

Events this week....

Teen Tech Club meeting Tuesday at 3:30 pm in the large meeting room. We will be shopping online to make our wish list for gaming equipment! Also sign up to help Nathan with Plugged and Unplugged Game Days this summer.

Teens Talk Books meeting Thursday at 4 pm in the large meeting room. We will be creating a mystery book display in the YA room and choosing a mystery to read this summer.

Teen Filmmaking Contest Deadline!

Films are due June 1 for the Teen Filmmaking Contest. The Film Fest will be held June 14 at 7 pm. Contact me at honnolro@oplin.org if you have any questions!

New Teen Writers Club!

A new club is forming at the Coshocton Public Library for teen writers. Writers will be able to share their work and get helpful feedback from their peers, and also practice their skills with writing prompts. The first planning meeting will be June 5, 3-5 pm. Sign up here if you plan to come!

Teen Film Festival