MHLS - SRP Teen Resources

2008 Summer Reading Program
Metamorphosis @ Your Library
Teen Program Resources

California State Library workshop resources | Other CA ideas
Crafts
- Altered clothing
- EZ Library Program database
- Hemp jewelry
- Origami butterfly
- Recycled crafts
CSLP Manual Outline
Altered Books - MHLS Collection | | How-to | More How-to | Hollowed Books
Book Crossing (Sharing books a new way)
Book Discussions (bottom left)
Book Purse ( Use Readers' Digest condensed books or get leather-covered ones at used book stores or Good Will)
Book review form | Raffle promo (Starr Library, Rhinebeck)
Bookmaking - Blank forms for Books | Comics | Gameboards | Moveable Books
Books-to-Movies Programs | How to Show Movies @ the Library
Cartooning/graphic novels
- Books in MHLS Professional Collection
- EZ Library Program database cartoon ideas
- Graphic novelist to do workshops - Barbara Slate
- Jim Sparks @ 845.628.8221 - drawing, photography, cartooning, art history presentations; Putnam librarians have hired him to do grades 6-12 – drawing, cartooning, photography
Change the Community programs (Programs to help develop young people's sense of social responsibility)
Clothing metamorphosis
- From jeans to purse
- T-shirt surgery (See Generation T-108 ways to transform a T-shirt & EZ Library Program idea
Cooking
- EZ Library Program cooking ideas
- Iron Chef program
- No Cooking cooking
EZ Library Program database teen programs
Fear Factor (with or without *buggy* food)
- EZ Library Program database
- See bug food sources on Children's Resources site
- Recipes - Iowa Univ. | Univ. of Kentucky
- Teen manual ideas - pp. 37-39
Forensics (Contact resources below to request CSI/forensics type program)
- CSI Programs - EZ Library Programs | Other ideas
- NYS Police, Troop F (Greene & Ulster, Trooper Victor Pirtle or (845) 344-5358)
- NYS Police, Troop K (Columbia, Dutchess & Putnam), Trooper Kristi Wilson
- Supplies/Promotional items
- Ulster County Sheriff's Office, Capt. Harry VanVliet at (845)-334-8333 (Will do presentations in Ulster County)
- Virtual Museum Canada (forensic interactive game & more)
Gaming program ideas (Under Specific Program Ideas)
Genealogy
"Green" programs (Metamorphosis @ Library to greener place)
- An Inconvenient Truth - Show the movie, have teens design an environmental project involving the library or community. Go to the globalwarming.org site above for great ideas or try one of these: recycling paper, cans, bottles in the library for a year and taking them to recycling center; raising money (bake sale, car wash, etc.) to purchase energy-efficient light bulbs and recycled paper for the library, including a presentation to the library director/board, encouraging them to purchase these products; setting up and managing a collection spot at the library for people to bring used printer ink cartridges and then taking them to the proper area recycling area
- Ideas from librarians on ya-yaac listserv
- Prizes and more
Latino program ideas
- Super cool Mexican crafts | Pesos photos
Letterboxing
- Letterboxing in MHLS libraries
- Letterboxing North America
- Letterboxing with Atlas Quest
- Local letterboxing program person
MHLS Professional Collection
- Drama | Poetry Programs | Programming - Multicultural
- Programming - Teen | Reading Clubs | Summer Reading
NYS Performers' database
Party ideas (Winding River Library System, WI)
Program Ideas (Check out film contests, poetry, theater and more)
Psychic programs
- Paranormal Investigations (Hudson Valley research group, presentations available)
- Zener cards (See Teen Manual, pp. 77-78)
Reading lists
- San Diego Library
Resources for teen librarians
Scavenger Hunts -

School visits
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Title Treks-reading incentive program
'Tween/Teen website
Urban legends
- EZ Library Programs