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 [...]

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 [...]

College Knowledge

Do you see college in your future?
Getting in to college can be a pretty daunting and sometimes discouraging task – but don’t think that it is beyond your reach! With the right preparation college can be accessible to anyone. Representatives from the University of Pittsburgh InvestingNOW/CARE Program will tell you what you need to know [...]

PEACEMAKERS in Pittsburgh

Every day, violence on the streets and in school affects the lives of more and more Pittsburgh teens. Like in books such as Sharon Flake’s Bang!, Ron Koertge’s The Brimstone Journals, Todd Strasser’s Give a Boy a Gun, Matt Whyman’s Boy Kills Man, Walter Dean Myers’s Autobiography of My Dead Brother, or Paul Volponi’s [...]

BIG THINGS POPPIN’ PARTY STYLE @ CLP, MAIN – TEEN!

School’s underway, but that doesn’t mean nothing’s happening @ CLP TEEN this fall! Get a sample of what’s poppin’ by taking a look at the events below (and please make sure you register by clicking on the links!):

September in Hazelwood

Well, we had a massive turnout of 22 people for Wii gaming yesterday, so keep it coming!
Here’s what else is going on:
September 18th at 4:30 p.m. Beading (make a bracelet, necklace, or a tag for your backpack or purse)
September 25th at 4:30 p.m. Book Discussion (snacks and a discussion of the novel Push by Sapphire)
September [...]

Congrats to the 412 Brawl Team for an Impressive Showing

On Friday, August 22nd the 412 Brawl Team faced off against teens from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. We kept up with them match for match, going down 0-1, evening the score 1-1, going down 1-2, then evening the score again 2-2. In an impressive come from behind victory, the [...]

Who’s Ready to Brawl? CLP Is Ready to Brawl!

CLP Teen is still gathering players from the Pittsburgh area to take on the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. The tournament takes place at the Main library Teen section before moving to the basement for the Teen End of Summer Party. If you can’t make it, we will be broadcasting the tournament [...]