CONTEST!!

Want an ipod Touch or a signed audiobook from a favorite author?? Enter this video contest!

Here's the contest:

If you could go on a fantasy road trip with a character (or characters!) from your favorite series, where would you go? What would you do along the way? How would you travel? Create a VIDEO and show us!

You can do a video on the Gemma Doyle series by Libba Bray, the Percy and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan or the Legend of Beka Cooper series by Tamora Pierce.

Forest of Hands and Teeth video

Go check out Jackie & Sylvia's response via YOUTUBE to zombie thriller The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. It's ridiculous!!

Catching Fire!!!

So I have a confession to make. I got a copy of Catching Fire in the mail from a friend of mine who went to Books Expo America (BEA for short) and I read it. In one sitting. While chewing my nails down to nothing. I wish I could share it with some of you, but I have to send it back to my friend. You can read it yourself starting September 1st, but in the meantime, just know that IT IS AWESOME. I didn't believe it possible, but it may actually even be better than Hunger Games. !!

While you're waiting for the book to be released, here's a little trailer to keep you excited:

Cliff and I go head to head in Wii Boxing!

This is from the staff meeting/party last Thursday. :)

Hooray for youtube!

Thanks to all 19 of you who came out to watch videos! I promise there will be a next time since this was SO popular. Here are the videos we watched:

Hip Hop Treadmill Fail
Charlie Bit my Finger—Again!
Exercise Ball to the Face
Kittens Inspired by Kittens!
Bizkit the Sleepwalking Dog
Charlie—Candy Mountain
The Evil Eye
Evil Strawberry
The Llama Song
Insane Driver
Funny Farm
Tokyo Dance Trooper
Very Angry Talking Cat
Talking Dogs
Bears Begging for Food
American Idol: Worst Singer Ever
Dog Bites Own Leg
Funny Cats
Bigfoot and Snasquatch
Home Invasion on Tape!
Sneezing Panda
Top 15 Worst Soccer Bloopers
Charlie’s Gift
Charlie the Unicorn 2
AAA amazing basketball shots

Next time, be sure to send all your video recommendations to lgardner at sailsinc dot org!!

New Random videos!

Random Video #1

Random Video #2

Don't ask me what it all means. I'm sure it's much deeper than it seems.

Live chat with authors all next week!

Watch this video to find out what authors you can chat with during Teen Read Week, October 13 - 17!

All chats are at 9 p.m. EST on the Readergirlz Myspace forum

Interview with Laura (umm, me)

TAG interview

Here is the TAG group interviewing Erica, a circulation assistant at the Millicent Library. It's pretty silly!

TAG meeting minutes

Thanks to everyone who made yesterday's meeting such a success! 15 teens were present to eat food, play a fun game, talk about books, music and movies and plan our upcoming Game Night.
Here are some things that happened at the meeting in case you couldn't come:

• Laura gave out jobs so she doesn't go insane. Jackie will be taking attendance; Rachel is the new phone junkie calling people about upcoming events; Tori and Shay are in charge of keeping noise under control (somewhat) and we even have awesome volunteers to help set up and clean up.
• Teens also signed up to help out at the Pokemon Party that the library is holding on Saturday, June 28th at 10 a.m. If you weren't at yesterday's meeting and you want to help out with this, email Laura!
• Our second Interview video was recorded! Bay, Hailey, Matt and Adam interviewed Erica, one of our library's fine circulation assistants. I promise to upload the video tonight!
• Rachel and Bre started creating a Game Night flyer; our FIRST GAME NIGHT is planned for June 26th from 3 - 5 p.m. in the library auditorium (downstairs). I really need all of your help in planning and promoting this!
• We also looked at all the new books and a bunch of them got checked out

Our next meeting is Friday, June 20th at 2:30 p.m. I'll be on vacation from June 12 - 19; see you when I get back!

Interview with Doreen!

Sorry this took so long to upload, everybody. Here it is, though, our first interview video! Here is Courtney interviewing Doreen Skidmore, circulation supervisor at the Millicent Library. The giggling girl in the background is a bit of a distraction, but no matter! :)

Surfing the Web video

Our first TAG video! Watch it here or go to YouTube to watch it.

Meeting minutes

Great meeting today, everyone! I'll get those pen pal letters out and we should have responses soon. We're coming along with our podcast and vodcast scripts...let's try to start recording at our next meeting! Also, get ready for our first game night in June. Hooray!

See you next Thursday, May 15th at 4 p.m.!

Storytubes!

Go to the Storytubes website to vote for the best video of the week! This week's videos are about Hair Raising Tales...

Books to Movies

With the next Chronicles of Narnia movie coming out this weekend, Prince Caspian, it got me thinking...what are your favorite books-to-movies adaptations?

Do you love the Harry Potter films but hate The Golden Compass? Here are some resources for those of you who are interested in the longstanding books-to-movies trend...

Entertainment Weekly's Read the Book! Slideshow
Do you agree with EW?? I kind of liked Prozac Nation...

Books to Movies Database
Want to know if your favorite author has had any of his/her books turned into movies? This is the place to go.

Books into Movies from Teenreads.com

Here's the trailer for Prince Caspian, too...

Meeting Minutes

We had 11 teens at our second meeting where we decided...

1) to stick with the name of the group as TAG
2) to create a podcast/radio show and call it 'The TAG Show'
3) to create vodcasts on the history of the library, our favorite books, movies, etc.
4) to have a teen movie night in May or June
5) that we love rice krispie treats!

We also spent some time looking at the teen blog and delicious tags. Everyone agreed that both are great but we need to add to the delicious tags. Please add your favorite websites in the comments so I can add them to our delicious!

Our next meeting is Thursday, May 8 at 4 p.m.

Sample vodcast (video) and podcast (audio recording)

Here is a sample video I made using the Flip video recorder and YouTube.



Here is a sample audio podcast I made using Audacity and Switchpod, both of which are FREE.