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December 3, 2008

It's not too late!
Posted by: Mandy Simon

It's not too late!!!!!!

To start getting pledges and sponsors for this Saturday's Read-a-Thon. We have more details on what activities will be going on!

Specifically:

Margaret Peterson Haddix, author of the Among the Hidden series and also her newest release Palace of Mirrors will be at Northwest Library at 9:30am to kick off the event!
Lisa Klein, author of Ophelia and her newest book: Two Girls of Gettysburg will be at Worthington Park Library at 9:30am to kick off the event!
All three locations will have supplies to create holiday cards for CardCare- which gives cards to our home-bound library patrons
WE WILL HAVE SNACKS!

We'll be playing games (with PRIZES!), doing activities (crafts!) and raffling off other cool PRIZES as the day goes on! The Read-a-Thon is happening at EACH WORTHINGTON LIBRARY LOCATION! Pick your favorite!

And let's not forget that this is helping out a really great cause: the youth at the United Methodist Children's Home!

Also, this Saturday from 10am-2pm is the Community Celebration, where all are welcome to come and tour the buildings and see all the new improvements made at each location. The Mayor of Worthington (Harvey Minton) declared December 6th Worthington Libraries Day for recognition of a great year at the libraries.

So let other people know about the cool happenings at the library this Saturday. AND Start collecting your pledges and come to the Teen Read-a-Thon!

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November 28, 2008

Thanksgiving
Posted by: Ann Pechacek

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving is always very relaxed, I live too far away to see my sister and her family so for the past 5 -6 years my day includes; getting up late, making coffee, reading, putting a turkey breast in the oven, reading, making sweet potato casserole, reading and then sitting down for my Thanksgiving feast and watching football. One of the big games for the Big 12 was played last night, Texas vs. Texas A&M. Sadly Texas beat A&M which doesn't bode well for my team getting into the Big 12 championship. Oklahoma plays Oklahoma State on Saturday night, GO SOONERS. If we win big there is a good chance we will go to the Big 12 championship game if not then I guess GO Texas.

I read the new Julius Lester book, The Guardian. All I can say is WOW it packs a punch in such a small book. Julius Lester is wonderful at reminding readers about periods in our history that we have forgotten or should not forget. 1940s south, racism, lynchings, murder. WOW, it was hard to read some of the passages in this book.

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November 26, 2008

New Teen Sign at Worthington Park
Posted by: Mandy Simon

So there’s been a lot of hoop-la about the Twilight movie- I haven’t seen it yet, but will definitely be getting it on DVD when it comes out.

Things at the library have been busy and fun! The holidays are right around the corner and everyone has been coming into the library for their audio-books to listen to on long car-rides, books to read on their days off, etc.

I want to tell everyone: Don’t forget that you can download audio-books from our website!!! Many of them you can burn to CD or put onto your MP3 player!

Worthington Park Library’s teens finished the Teen letters I mentioned in our last DIY program and I’ve put some pictures up to show you what they look like! I’m a big fan of Mod-Podge (or decoupage) which is a clear glue you can paint onto almost anything to make something more decorative. We used decoupage to put cool images from discarded Graphic Novels, books, and magazines on the word TEEN- so it would really represent what the teens at Worthington Park Library really like! With the TEEN letters on top of the shelves, now visitors to Worthington Park can easily see where the Teen area is (it’s back in the corner of the library, so we get that question at the desk a lot)! I’m really happy with the way they look- what do you think?

All three Worthington Libraries branches are gearing up with cool activities and ideas for our upcoming Read-a-Thon on December 6^th!

If you haven’t started asking around for pledges and sponsors, PLEASE DO!

You can get pledge forms at any Worthington Libraries location! We really want to make this holiday season a great one for the youth at UMCH and the best part about this event is WE HAVE FUN WHILE HELPING OTHER PEOPLE OUT!

If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to ask the librarians!

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November 24, 2008

Did you see Twilight yet?
Posted by: Sarah Cofer

So have you seen Twilight yet? What did you think? I saw it on Friday night and have LOTS of comments and opinions. I would love to know what you thought. I will add my opinions to the comments section so I won't spoil the movie for anyone who has not seen it yet.

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