TeenDirect

The James DeVita presentation will take place at Suffolk Community College on March 12. This will be our first joint venture with Suffolk Community College and the first time we have tried the new online registration system. For those of you brave enough to be trail-blazers and try the new online system of registration, thank you. Join us on this Wednesday in the "Brave New World" of the Zero Tolerance Party.

Thursday March 27 will be the date for the annual Fran Romer Memorial Workshop. Candy Reeder and her committee have been hard at work putting together a great day of young adult literature. You won't want to miss it!

Hope to see you there,

Barbara

Teen Services in Westhampton

In February I took a trip to Westhampton Free Library to check out what Dave Jones and Nola Thacker were up to. As one would expect, they are up to some great teen programming and services. I noticed that the shelving has been customized to meet the interests of their teens: manga and anime DVDs are shelved together but graphic novels are in a different section. The magazines are centrally located where you can't miss them.

Dave and Nola have also given a lot of thought to creating programs that will appeal to their patrons. They have a very successful bimonthly RuneScape Club that practically takes over the library, a manga blog and

manga club that generate high interest, as well as Guitar Hero sessions. They planned a incredibly fun Chinese New Year celebration complete with a martial arts session, food, and a movie. Trial plans for a coffee house and writer's group are in the works.

Programming reflects significant teen interest in cooking and low teen interest in crafts. Great program Dave and Nola!

We're Not Your Mother: Marketing to Teens

Plans are underway for the May 14 Young Adult Librarians' meeting. This promises to be a program filled with great ideas for creating "Teen Friendly" library services.

This training session will take place at the new Barnes & Noble in Smith Haven Mall and will feature a presentation by Andrea Feinberg on effective marketing principles that can be applied to teen services. Kristen Brewi will review Creating Ever-cool: A Marketer's Guide to a Kid's Heart, and then we will have a guided tour of Barnes & Noble, which will include the opportunity to view retail marketing and discuss how that can be translated to library service.

0.2 c.e.u. will be offered.

More Galleys from ALA Mid-Winter

The Antique Gift Shop by Lee Eun is my first venture into

Korean comics. As opposed to manga which is read from right to left, Korean manhwa is read from left to right, making it a little more accessible to western readers. I was captivated by the first volume of this series, which contains three "short stories" about people and objects connected with an antique shop. The premise for this series is that the antiques "choose their owners" by "sending telepathic messages to the person's heart." The relationship between people and possessions well as the influence of previous owners' experiences make this a title with lots to think about and enjoy. I will definitely be making another trip back to this gift shop.

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks was such a fun read that I

was almost afraid to try the Genius Squad. After the destruction of the Axis Institute for World Domination and the incarceration of Prosper English, Cadel is destined to a very restrictive and boring life. Events soon conspire to change all that as Cadel joins with Sonja, Gazo and a new cast of characters in the fight for World Domination. After the break-neck speed of the first book in this series, the second book seemed a little slower until the ending - but what an exciting ending! I was on the edge of my seat while reading Part Four.

The Graphic Forensic Science series consists of six voumes covering high interest topics such as autopsies, ballistics, and profiling. Crime Scene Investigators by Rob Shone opens with a

diagram detailing the relationship between the crime scene, laboratory, archives, and CSI team. Comic panels bring to life actual cases. "Sawbones", the story of a forensic anthropologist who studied the marking made by various types of cutting instruments, was easy to understand when looking at a close-up drawing of a crosscut saw. Supporting material includes background descriptions, additional famous cases, a glossary, sources of further information, and an index.

Please consult the SCLS Professional Collection for a complete listing of all titles available for examination.

What interesting young adult literature published in 2008 have you been reading? Join in the discussion at SCLS Reads.

	One of the trendsetters in California is McCabe's Guitar Shop Sunday Night Shows: "cozy Sunday night concerts." Bands play while coffee and homemade chocolate chip cookies are served. Sound familiar?