Teen library space

Jess has written about using Scratch Tickets for Teen Summer Reading in the past (and her idea actually got picked up by School Library Jou...

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I am very lucky in that I have two very artistic assistants who do displays for our teens. After 20some years doing displays, I was getting kind of burned out and to be honest, I wasn’t awesome at it. But my assistants are, so it was a task I was happy to delegate. We would […]

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Central Library: Teen Central Boylston Street Building, Second Floor 617.536.5400, [email protected] Located on the second…

Image 5 of 19 from gallery of Winthrop Library / Johnston Architects. Photograph by Benjamin Drummond

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Blind Date with a Book - February 2014 This was a passive program conjured up by the teen librarian at another branch in our system, which she said was very successful. Using her model, I conjured up this display. The idea behind Blind Date with a Book, if you haven't seen this elsewhere yet (it's all over the place), is that you wrap up a book with wrapping paper or here, newspaper. You write a short "dating profile", and patrons can take home a book based on that information. This is a…

Hidell Architects was commissioned in 2008 to renovate and expand an existing Food Lion grocery building into a new home for the Bedford Public Library. The 40…

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