New Teen Book Club at CLP Main

I love to read and discuss books- that’s why I became a librarian!  Strangely though, I’ve always been reluctant to join a book club.  I find that the hardest part about committing to one is being required to read a specific book- the same one as everyone else!  Maybe I have a problem with authority, [...]

Just Try to Remain Silent: Sign Up for The Silent Library Program

Do you think you could remain silent while someone plucked a hair from inside your nose?  Could you prevent yourself from laughing at the sight of a good friend being fed baby food while dressed in a diaper and bib?  Would you be able to refrain from squealing in horror after seeing yourself made up [...]

Hungry? Head to Art Club!

Many of you are already aware of the Main Teen Room‘s AWESOME Art Club which meets every Wednesday from 3 pm to 5 pm.  But did you know that beginning this month, on the second Wednesday of every month we’ll be offering a different food related craft at Art Club?  Instead of getting creative with [...]

Local Teen Origami Superstar Scott Stern

The first time I tried origami was in March at our Teen Summer Reading training at the spacious Penn Hills Library. I only made a peace crane, but it was still challenging.  Origami requires some seriously tricky creativity, all in the name of beauty. I respect things that are complicated and ultimately impractical, so I [...]

What Would You Suggest for Teens on Glee?

I don’t know if I qualify as a bona fide Gleek because I haven’t watched every episode and I slept through the finale this week (Please, please don’t tell me what happened.) Still I thought it would be fun to make some library suggestions  to the characters, based on their interests and attitudes: Rachel Two [...]

Madden NFL 10 Teen Tournament & Super Bowl Pre-Game Party

. Think you got what it takes to win in Madden NFL 10 for the Xbox 360? Join up to sixteen teens as they compete for prizes and prestige. Registration is required. Sign up by January 31st for your chance to win, or just come enjoy some free food before the Super Bowl. Register for [...]

Carrick’s Teen Advisory Group Gets Spooky!

The Carrick Library’s Fourth Annual Halloween Haunted House was a screaming success!    Teens decorated the meeting room of the library and scared approximately 117 children and adults.  Everyone had a ton of fun as always and as the library’s biggest event of the year I want to thank my fantastic Teen Advisory Group for working so hard!

Changes to CLPTeensburgh

If you read this blog regularly, you might have noticed that there was a period of a couple months without many updates.  That was because we were figuring out how to make this blog the best it could be — and we think we have it.  We now have a group of eight teen librarians [...]

Pre-Register for the Teen Madden 09 Tournament

Think you got what it takes to challenge Pittsburgh teens in Madden supremacy and win a $50 check card? Join us at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Teen space (4400 Forbes Ave., in Oakland), where 16 players will take to the field on Sunday, January 25th @ 12:30 PM for all the big plays and [...]

Get Animated at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

If to animate is to give life, then no place is more lively than the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s TEEN department. At last week’s art club, we cut, pasted, drew, and took picture after picture to create a stop-motion animation, entitled “Hi.” Are you interested in trying your hand at animation? Check out Ron Miller’s [...]