• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

Winter 2014 Bigger on the Inside 1-2 Inside this issue: Inspired by Poetry x30 1&3 2014 Mock Printz Awards 4 OYEA Award Nominations 4 Teen Art Show 5 Time Travel Book List 5 Poetry Inspiration 6 Contacts & Events 7 Bigger on the Inside: Doctor Who at the Library by Barratt Miller, Crook County Library Crook County Library’s but it’s actually a spaceship/ teens love Doctor Who. time machine...that’s bigger Protip: Don’t tape Like, a lot. They made up a on the inside. Kristen Dyer, down the roof of Weeping Angels game dur- one of our awesome Youth your TARDIS until ing downtime at a program Services Associates, built it’s in your pro- last fall and debate “who’s ours using a refrigerator box gram location. We the best Doctor?” at pretty donated by a local appliance assembled the much every program. (The store. She wrapped the box TARDIS in my of- answer, according to most in blue poster paper, used a fice and realized of them, is Matt Smith.) So Sharpie to trace the panels that it was wider than the it was pretty much a given on the sides, and assembled door after the roof was The Tardis at Crook that we were going to cele- the other details using con- taped down. (This would not County Library brate the 50th Anniversary struction paper, cardboard, have been a problem if we’d Special with a Doctor Who- and printouts from Pub- been working with an actual themed Late Night at the lisher. Our light was a chick TARDIS. Alas.) I had to rip it library. feeder filled with battery- apart, transport it to the pro- powered tea lights. I pro- gram location, and frantically Step 1: Build a TARDISThe vided the sound effects by reassemble it with paper TARDIS may look like an playing a TARDIS ringtone scraps and packing tape. ordinary blue police box, on my phone’s app store. Make sure you can fold your Continued on page 2 Inspired by Poetry x30 by Sonja Sommerville, Salem Public Library I’m not a fan of poetry in collection at Salem Public “Matched,” I got to thinking general. I don’t really “get” Library. As most readers that it would be interesting to Do not go gentle it most of the time and I notice from time to time, share the whole of the poems into the good night, with our patrons. find a lot of poetry to be snippets of poems—some Old age should burn tiresome and pretentious. classic, some contempo- and rave at close of rary—are woven into many April was the obvious time to So, naturally, I’ve devoted stories, inspire book titles, do something about it, with it day; hours and hours over the and appear as chapter being National Poetry Month Rage, rage against last two years to planning headings. Usually, the story and all. I read and researched the dying of the and creating “Inspired by includes a piece, rather than and poked around until I man- night. Poetry,” a 30-part display the entire poem. Initially aged – in April 2013 – to cre- that celebrates how poetry inspired by Ally Condie’s use ate a “Poem a Day” display set -Do Not go Gentle Into that has been integrated by of Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not up like a calendar by putting Good Night up a new poem each day from By Dylan Thomas young adult authors repre- Go Gentle Into That Good sented in the Teen Scene Night” in her book April 1-30. Continued on page 3 Page 2 OYAN Review - Winter 2014 Bigger on the Inside (Continued from Page 1) completed box down for dressed as their favorite We ended up playing a sim- hidden behind another An- easy transport and stor- character a basic costume pler version that a couple of gel” rule in the future. age. to wear for Step 4. Our our teens made up. We teens are such die-hard turned off the lights in the Step 6: Trivia Step 2: Feed them fish fans that almost all of library, randomly selected a Since Weeping Angels Tag fingers and custard. them came in costume, Doctor and two compan- went faster than we’d Our teens insisted on the ions, and gave planned, we filled in some menu. Matt Smith’s first them 60 sec- time with Doctor Who trivia task as the Eleventh Doc- onds to hide. questions Kristen found tor is to feed his regener- Everyone else online: http:// ating body, but nothing was a Weeping www.wordandfilm.com/201 appeals to his new taste Angel. As long 3/11/doctor-who-trivia-test buds except the delightful as the Doctor/ -your-knowledge/ combination of fish fingers companion and custard. Our meeting could see the Or you could use some room has a kitchenette Weeping An- other activities. Teen Librar- with an oven, so we though. gels, the Angels couldn’t ian’s Toolbox has a Doctor cooked up some fish sticks move. If the Doctor/ Who post with even more and whipped up a batch of Step 4: Photo op companion blinked, if an fabulous ideas: http:// vanilla pudding. To our Once everyone had their Angel snuck up on them, or www.teenlibrariantoolbox.c surprise, everyone loved time-traveler look ready to if one of the Angels hid be- om/2013/09/doctor-who- the food. (We made sure go, we took them from the hind another Angel, the central-at-tlt.html we had Doritos and Oreos meeting room to the main Angel could move and tag on hand--just in case.) library, where our TARDIS the Doctor/companion out. And that’s that! Not only was set up. (Since this is an The round ended when the was this program super Step 3: Crafts. Because after-hours program, we Doctor and both compan- popular with our teens, bow ties are cool had the building to our- ions had been tagged. The staff lost track of the num- Kristen found a bunch of selves.) Everybody got two Angels who tagged them ber of adults who came up great crafts for the teens pictures with the TARDIS out became the Doctor/ to the counter to ask why to do after they’d eaten. on either their phone or companions for the next there wasn’t a Doctor Who We settled on: our digital camera. In a round. program for them, too. So perfect world, we would we added a Doctor Who Duct Tape Bow Ties: have either printed the This went really fast; each night to our Adult Summer http:// non-phone photos off for round took about 5 min- Reading Program schedule www.duckbrand.com/ them or gotten permission utes. It was nice that every- and hid the folded-up index.php/duck-tape-club/ to post them on Facebook one got a chance to play, TARDIS behind a filing cabi- ducktivities/crafts/duck- so kids could snag the digi- but I’d eliminate the net in my office. I can’t wait tape-bows tal versions. Once the indi- “Angels can move if they’re to bring it out again in Au- Dalek Cubee Crafts: http:// vidual photos were done, cyber- we let them do group drone.deviantart.com/ shots. gallery/9187037 Masks: http:// Step 5: Weeping Angels www.bbc.co.uk/ Tag programmes/b006q2x0/ Kristen found a set of rules features/funandgames on Facebook: https:// www.facebook.com/ We liked the bow ties and WeepingAngelsTag/info masks because it gives teens who didn’t come Page 3 OYAN Review - Winter 2014 Inspired by Poetry x30 (Continued from Page 1) Then, I left it up for a week or so to give the poems at the end of the month a chance. April 1-30. Then, I left it up for a week or so to give the poems at the end of the month a chance. I so enjoyed watching patrons stop and read the poems. I enjoyed even more helping those same patrons find the books that included the poems. And I also read and thought about each poem myself and learned that I might, after all, be a fan of at least some poetry. I’ve updated a bit since, as I continue to read and stumble across poetic inspirations in my collection. The poems cur- rently included are: “Stop All the Blocks, Cut Off the Telephone” (W.H. Auden) used in “Taking Off” by Jenny Moss “From a Distance” (Cliff Richard) used in “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes” by Chris Crutcher “The Red Wheelbarrow” (William Carlos Williams) used in “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green “I’m Nobody! Who are You?” (Emily Dickinson) used in “Nobody’s Secret” by Michaela MacColl “The Hollow Men” (T.S. Eliot) used in “Wither” by Lauren DeStefano and “The Compound” by S.A. Bodeen “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye” (Robert Burns) used in “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger “Psalms 147” (Holy Bible) used in “Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry “Crossing the Bar” (Alfred Lord Tennyson) used in “Crossed” by Ally Condie “Paradise Lost” (John Milton) used in “The Golden Compass” by Phillip Pullman “How Do I Love Thee?” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) used in “Delirium” by Lauren Oliver “All is Truth” (Walt Whitman) used in “Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets” by Evan Roskos “Lady of Shallot” (Alfred Lord Tennyson) used in “Avalon High” by Meg Cabot “There’s a Certain Slant of Light” (Emily Dickinson) used in “Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things” by Kathryn Burak “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (John Donne) used in “One Piece: Volume 5” by Eiichiro Oda and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Earnest Hemingway “The Love Song of Alfred J.

Load more

  7

Copy Link