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Foodie Finds: Fiction Edition

Ah, summer!  Long days and late sunsets, grasses blowing in warm (or hot) breezes.  And for me, there’s the food!  Between carnivals, rodeos, and fairs, there’s enough amazing food to keep me dreaming about all year long!  So when I was struck by a longing for funnel cakes and fried Oreos, what could I do but compile a list of foodie books?

Plus, there’s the added bonus that this blog is called Eat, Read, Repeat.  Double win!  It was meant to be.

Here we go!  Food-focused Teen Room books: fiction edition!

Click on any covers or titles to place a hold.

Somewhere between bitter and sweet

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

Hope was Here

Love à la Mode

Supper Club

Salt and Sugar

And for some added spice:

Hungry Hearts, a collection of short stories

And two graphic novels, if you want to see the food with more than just your heart:

Batter Royale

Crumbs

National Library Week

National Library Week is April 23-29 this year and the Campbell County Public Library has a lot to offer! Everyone knows that we have books at the library, but there is so much more to our story. We offer books, audiobooks, DVDs, vinyl records, and more for your entertainment. We also have 150 free databases for patron use and tons of programs for all ages. Here are some of the events we have to celebrate. Go to events for more information.

Teen Room

April 24-25, 3:30-5pm  Teen Tech Petting Zoo Stop by the Teen Room and see all the cool technology we have available for teens to use.

April 25, 4-5:30pm Teen Chess Club

April 27, 4-5:30pm Teen Anime Club

Campbell County Public Library

April 27, 1-4pm and April 28, 12-3pm: Escape Room for Adults (ages 18+)

Gather your five-member team and see if you can solve the clues to escape the library! Fastest time wins gift cards, thanks to The Library Foundation! Sign up for a session: call 687.0115 or stop by the Reference Desk.

Saturday, April 29, 1:30-3pm: The Library Foundation 2nd Annual Cookie Wars

$5 at the door allows you to taste-test competing bakers’ cookies, view their creative decor, and vote for your favorite!

Want to be a baker for this event? Baker entry deadline is April 21, 2023. 14 spaces available, first come first serve. Adult and Junior (under 18) divisions. Rules and Regulations here: Cookie Wars

Saturday, April 29 -The Hunter Family:

Enjoy music in the atrium performed by Stan, Colleen, and family

All Week at Your Libraries in Gillette and Wright

Overdue fine forgiveness (up to $10) and free replacement library cards.

What’s all this about weeding?

I internally scream and clutch the pearls I don’t even own when Marcy tells me, “We’re going to start a weeding project soon.”

My world shatters.  I knew this day was coming!

I knew one day, this dream job would test me in ways I might not be able to pass!

How?!  How could I remove books from this beautiful space?  How could I take these little tree-babies with souls and send them off to who-knows-where?  What if they don’t go to good homes?!  What if they, (and here, I gulp in terror and agony) get thrown away?!

Marcy didn’t seem to notice the crazed panic in my eyes, and I did my best to play it cool.  “I’m a super cool teen librarian now,” I thought.  “I gotta be tough.”

That was months ago; now the weeding is over.  I’ve taken multiple deep breaths, and I even put away my still-don’t-actually-own-them clutching pearls.  Things are better.  Since I’ve reached such a healthy place,  I thought maybe I’d let you all in on the secret-not-a-secret of weeding. 

The Whats, the Whys, and the WHYYYYYYsss?!

The Whats

Weeding is the purposeful removal of certain books (or graphic novels, or audiobooks, or whatever, we’re just gonna use books from now on), from the collection, based on certain information, such as how often it gets checked out, how badly it smells or falls apart when you open it, or exactly how outdated that information is about the 1992 Chicago Bulls team.

Okay, but what happens to the weeded books?

A very small percentage have lived lives so full of excited readers, that it’s time to say goodbye altogether and put them in the trash.  Most of them, though, end up at the Friends of the Library Book Sale in the fall, where they find new homes and new readers to love them. 

The Whys

Libraries should be full of information that is vibrant, up-to-date, and interesting to the people who use it.  There are lots of reasons a book might be weeded, but all of them interfere in one way or another with these goals.  A library so full of old books that it doesn’t have room for new books is a library that has become stagnant.

The WHYYYYYYs

A book is a beautiful thing.  Some books make a home in our lives and live with us forever.  Some books come into our lives, say a lovely hello, and eventually a sad goodbye.  And both are okay.

At the end of the Teen Room’s weeding process, I looked over the books that we weeded, and didn’t see any that I thought, “No!  So-and-so reader would have loved this one!”  (Those ones we kept!).  “That one is so popular, we gotta keep it!”  (Spoiler alert: we did.).  Or even, “That one deserves one more chance!”  (If a book needed one more chance, we gave it one.).

At the end of weeding, I looked around the Teen Room and thought, “Wow.  There is so much more room for the next batch of adventures.”

If you’re interested in the full weeding policy, you can check it out here:

https://www.campbellcountywy.gov/DocumentCenter/View/16314/Collection-Development-Policy-FINAL

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New Year, New Series!

Of manga, that is!

We’re very lucky to have an amazing collection of manga in our library, both upstairs and down.  The Teen Room collects the manga we think you all will enjoy, including these new series:

Apple Black , volumes 1 and 2

magic

fantasy

saving the world

magically-gifted

Blue Flag, volumes 1-6

romance

unrequited love

love triangles

high school

growing pains

Given, volumes 1 and 2

music

romance

rock ‘n’ roll

Tokyo Revengers, volumes 1-6

time travel

revenge

gangs

friendship

Come check out these new series to celebrate the New Year, or swing by for some old favorites!

What a Year!

Can you believe it’s almost the end of 2021? This year has been very busy for everyone and the same can be said for the Teen Room. Here’s a recap of what we’ve been doing!  

Teen Room staff hosted four escape rooms, a 3D printer workshop, and two Dungeons and Dragons workshops.  We also partnered to do two Writer’s workshops with author A. P. Mobley, and two art workshops with Ava Art Center.

Teen Summer Reading was a huge success. We had over 180 teens enrolled in the summer reading challenge, and we gave out almost 3000 grand prize tickets.

This fall, author Nathan Hale presented a cartooning workshop, and author Steve Sheinkin visited the junior high schools. The Teen Volunteers ran the Scholastic Book fair in early December and raised over $1400 in funds.  As a result, the volunteers donated over $700 in books to local youth service agencies.

In total, we had over 11,000 patron visits to the Teen Room this year! We can’t wait to see what 2022 brings us.

Happy New Year from the Teen Room!

Gillette News Record Photo

Welcome!

Welcome to the Teen Room! We hope even with the craziness of COVID-19 that you had a great last day of school. One exciting event for our sixth graders is you are now able to come hang out in the Teen Room… well, under normal circumstances you would! When we are finally able to have patrons age 15 and under in the building, you are able to visit the Teen Room! We wanted to take a minute and introduce ourselves, the Teen Room staff members, to you!

Hi, I’m Sarah and I have been with the library a little over 2 years now. I have been in Gillette almost my entire life; before that I grew up in Guernsey, WY. I went to college in Bismarck, ND and Gillette, WY, focusing on early education.  I am a fan of all things Whedon, Doctor Who, Supernatural, and Marvel. I like to read fantasy and horror novels; my favorite book is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I love to garden in my free time and cross stitch as well.

 

 

I’m Marie and I have worked at the library for 1.5 years. I will celebrate my 1-year anniversary in the Teen Room this July. I was born in Bergen, Norway but moved to a ranch in South Dakota when I was 3. I completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology from BHSU in Spearfish, SD and am currently working on a master’s degree in counseling from MSU-Billings. I love books and working for the library is my favorite job I’ve ever had. For me, trying to pick a favorite book is like trying to pick a favorite child; I just can’t. A YA novel that I especially love is The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Currently, I read a lot of non-fiction and am particularly interested in anthropology and esoteric philosophy.

 

Hi, I’m Marcy, I’ve worked at the library for the past 10 years. I absolutely love what I do. I grew up in the military and got to live in some pretty exciting places, like Germany and England, before my dad retired and moved us to Gillette to be closer to my grandparents. I’m a fan of Supernatural, Grey’s Anatomy and The 100. I have two doggies, Jason a 12-year-old Golden Retriever and Lucy a 3-legged, 5-year-old Lab. I’m currently reading A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs.

 

Hi, I’m Darcy, and I’ve worked at the library since 2006; prior to that, I was an English and Spanish teacher.  I’m the Youth Services Librarian now, so I work with both the Children’s and Teen departments, but for the first eleven years of my job, I was exclusively in the Teen Room, so it’s still one of my favorite places in the library.  I grew up in South Dakota; graduated from Carroll College in Helena, MT with my B.A in English and Spanish a very long time ago; and completed my Master’s degree in Library Sciences in 2016.  I have six kids – mostly all grown – and one grandson. I read a little bit of everything; the YA novels I read most recently were Damsel and Red Hood by Elena K. Arnold, and I loved them.  I enjoy hiking, cross-country skiing, gardening, and traveling.