Teen Zone at Walker

Happy New Year

mpeter256 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:55:13 +0000

New smart-toys for Christmas? Come to the library and learn what you can do with your new toys. Walker has an app for mobile devices. You can search our catalog or read magazines on your enabled device. Come on in.

Sign up for “Wired for Wind”

walkerteens — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:10:11 +0000

Walker Library Youth Services will be offering a special science program for kids up to 18 years old.

Walker Library will feature a special program presented by the USM Cooperative Extension and 4-H for National Youth Science Day. Thursday October 27, 2011 we will be offering “Wired for Wind”, an experiment in alternative energy featuring wind power. Pre-registration is required for this program. Contact Youth Services staff to save your spot.

It’s Banned Books Week

walkerteens — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:01:55 +0000

Come on in to the Teen Zone and check out our display for Banned Books Week. Every year we try to call attention to your right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Check out our display board and read one of the books we have featured that have been challenged or banned somewhere in the US.

Summer Reading is here!

walkerteens — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:52:04 +0000

Yesterday was the start of Walker Library’s Summer Reading program. Here in the teen zone that means “come on by and hang with us”

We will be having regular Wii gaming sessions on Mondays and Fridays at 3:30. There will be teen movie afternoons on Wednesdays.

We’re also asking you to stop by and share what you’re reading. If you want to give a review of your latest book or magazine that would be great. Also when you’ve read a book about another country (or about our country) let us know and you can put a sticker on the big globe. Come pick up a “You are here” Bingo sheet and try to do as many activities as you can.

Hope to see you around!

Teen graphic novel club forming at Walker Teen Zone

walkerteens — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:01:50 +0000

Calling all graphic novel fans! If you like anime, manga, or graphic novels we have a new club for you. Walker Library Teen Zone is starting a graphic novel club for teens. The goal is to read and talk about graphic novels as a group. Participants will meet once a month in the teen zone at the library. Our first meeting will be on Thursday July 7, 2011 at 6:30pm. We will choose a book or series we want to read and then meet to share ideas and talk about what we’ve been reading.

This group is for teens who like to read and enjoy cool art, and who would like to meet others who like the same stuff. Open to anybody 13-19 years old. We welcome anybody who wants to stop by and hang out with us even if you haven’t read our current book.

Call Teen Services Assistant Carrie Hawks at the library: 854-0630 ext. 255 or stop by the Teen Zone for more info.

Walker Library Teen Summer Reading Program

walkerteens — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:55:45 +0000

This summer we will be having our own Summer Reading Program here in the Teen Zone. Our theme will be “You Are Here”

We are encouraging all Westbrook teens to read and explore the world around them both near and far. We will have a globe set up in the teen area and each time you read about another country or place, stop by and tell us about it. We’ll put a mark on the globe and let everyone see where we’ve traveled.

In addition to regularly schedules Wii gaming sessions we will have a few DDR dance parties for teens.

We hope to start a Journaling group and a Graphic Novel club this summer as well so stop by and let us know if this sounds cool to you.

Summer Reading Program will be starting up in late June after school is out.

Teens Take Back Westbrook – Power Up @ Walker Library

walkerteens — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:27:21 +0000

Teens Take Back Westbrook… What does that mean?

Well, it means that you’ve got an opportunity to take a piece of Westbrook, and make it your own. Make it a better place for you, where you would want to go and hang out, have fun, or do what’s important to you. There are lots of public spaces that are in Westbrook that you can change and fix to suit you better, and we’re going to do all that we can to help!

What are we doing RIGHT NOW?

Right now we’re looking for the WHERE and the WHAT.

So, we need your help to find it. Do you know, or think you know, a public space that could be used? Post a comment here, write an email, or just drop in to say hi to Will in person at the library, and he’ll be happy to look up the spot with you and see if we can use it!

Even better, take pictures! Digital pictures, cellphone pictures, Polaroids, whatever! A picture can be worth a thousand words, and if you take good pictures of any of the places, we’d love to have them and show them here!

And lastly, the WHAT. What do you want for an outdoors hangout, or what hangout could you improve? Maybe you want some benches to add to your favorite spot to have a nice place to rest. Maybe you think we -really- need a basketball court somewhere, or want to add something cool and new to the skate park, or maybe you have some idea way cooler than any we’ve thought of!

So, go ahead and tell me in person, post a comment here, or email me at LibrarianWill@gmail.com

I’ll be putting all the great ideas up here for everyone to see and talk about, and I look forward to hearing yours!

School is Almost Out!

walkerteens — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:46:40 +0000

Summer is JUST around the corner, so close that you can taste it! The library’s still a great place to visit over the summer though, and here’s just a few reasons why:

It’s a great spot to meet up with people.

Missing your school laptop? We have COMPUTERS!

-The computers in the Kid’s Room are for 12 and under only, 13+ get to use the Adult computers upstairs.

-We have wireless everywhere in the library, for free!

We still have Movie Days and Gaming Days.

…and there are -always- board games and card games and lots of stuff to do.

If you need a job, we can help you find one! Or to master that oh-so-tricky Job Interview!

The Library is always air conditioned, nice and cool when it’s HOT outside!

If you -really- need something to do, you can even try picking up a book! (Or download it to your MP3 player if that’s too lame to be seen doing, nobody will know you aren’t listening to music!)

Popular Science – Now Free

walkerteens — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:53:07 +0000

The Popular Science archive is now free to use. Great to answer your own questions, help you understand science, or find resources for papers & projects!

http://www.popsci.com/archives

Can you walk the line?

walkerteens — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:50:05 +0000

Hey all,

MTV has put out a new web page, called A Thin Line, and it’s all about keeping your head about you on the internet and your cell. Give it a look, it’s fast and easy to do:

http://www.athinline.org/