Teen Tech Week 2008 - Tune in @ your library

The Young Adult Library Services Association created Teen Tech Week to make teens and their parents aware of the technology offered in libraries and to help teens become responsible library users. This year's theme Tune In @ your library focuses on music and music-related technology in libraries.

The Young Adult Department is offering several programs during Teen Tech Week, March 2-8, for patrons in grades 6-12.

GAMING AFTERNOON
Tuesday, March 4
DDR – 3-4 PM
Guitar Hero – 4-5:30 PM
Registration begins on February 26

GOTH SOCK MONKEYS
Thursday, March 6
4-4:45 PM
As part of Teen Tech Week, create your own sock monkey.
Registration begins February 28.

FLICKR CLASS
Saturday, March 8
Beginning at 2 PM
This class will serve as a basic introduction to the popular online service. It will cover account creation, uploading pictures, organizing photos, and sharing with friends. The class will also teach patrons about tags, searching, and online privacy.
Register now at the Adult Services Desk

- NB

Beagles are Top Dog

These small dogs have been making big news lately with a Beagle, Uno, being named best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show earlier this month. Interested in learning more about these great family dogs? Check out what GPLD has to offer on the topic:

The beagle /Wilcox, Charlotte J 636.753 Wil

Beagles / Stone, Lynn M. J 636.7 Sto

Beagles : everything about purchase, care, nutrition, handling, and behavior /Parent, Lucia E.
636.7537 Par

Interested in adding a Beagle to your family? Check out local shelters or rescues.

--KEL

Mmmmmmmmm, that’s good blog!

The 2007 Food Blog Awards spotlight some of the best food writing in blogland. And there is some seriously good food writing going on in blogland. 2007 marks the 4th annual FBA and the second year they have been awarded by the Well Fed Network, an amalgamation of 15 separate food blogs. The first two FBAs were awarded by the Accidental Hedonist, but the awards process is much the same.

Here are some highlights from the 2007 awards:

Food Blog of the Year: 101 Cookbooks
This is the creation of San Francisco writer and designer Heidi Swanson. When she discovered that her cookbook collection numbered over 100, Heidi decided it was time to focus on those recipes she loved best. Her blog is all about the recipes, most featuring simple natural foods.

Best Food Blog (Family/Kids): Lunch In a Box
Features dishes suited to box lunches. The author is an American who formerly lived in Japan, and the dishes and suggestions often have a decided Asian flare, including advice on picking a bento box to carry your lunch.

Best Food Blog (Rural): Farmgirl Fare
Farmgirl Fare is about much more than recipes. It includes writing about food and country living on the author’s 240 acre Missouri farm. While it’s fun to read about the donkeys, sheep, and farm happenings, be sure to check the recipes, including the baked goods. Especially the baked goods.

Go to the full list of 2007 Food Blog Award winners.

In parting, I’d like to recommend one food blog, a personal favorite, which was not an award recipient. Coconut & Lime won Best Food Blog (Original Recipes) in 2006. Unfortunately, that category was not part of this year’s awards.

Bon Appétit.


jb

One Book, One Glenbard

Author Alex Flinn will be visiting all four high schools in District 87 next week to talk about her novel Breathing Underwater. Community members are invited to join the author and other readers at a discussion and book signing on Monday, February 25 at 7:00 PM at Glenbard West High School, 670 Crescent Boulevard, Glen Ellyn.

- NB

Hershey's Kisses Chosen as Best Chocolate

Patrons in grades 4-8 sampled and rated five milk chocolates at Glenside's Chocolate Tasting Party on Tuesday, February 12. Hershey's kisses dominated the competition and was their pick for best chocolate.

First Place - Hershey's Kisses
Second Place - Dove
Third Place - Fanny May Solid Milk Chocolates
Fourth Place - Palmer
Fifth Place - Russell Stover Private Reserve


Learn more about chocolate and candy by checking out these books:
The book of chocolate
Candyfreak : a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America by Steve Almond
Chocolate : riches from the rainforest by Robert Burleigh
Death by chocolate : the last word on a consuming passion by Marcel Desaulniers

- NB

E-mail Fundamentals program

Saturday, March 1, 2008
9:30-10:30 a.m.

This class will teach participants how to create an E-mail account and cover its fundamentals.The program is FREE and open to the public. Sign up at the Adult Reference desk or call 630-260-1550 and ask for Adult Services.
-MA

WHICH GROUNDHOG IS RIGHT?

It's Groundhog Day! Will we have an early spring or six more weeks of winter? It depends on which groundhog you ask! Punxsutawney Phil from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania saw his shadow, indicating we’ll have six more weeks of winter. However, Jimmy the Groundhog of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin did not see his shadow, thereby predicting an early spring. Let’s hope that since we’re closer to Sun Prairie that Jimmy is right!

--KC