Winter 2006 Events

The Winter 2006 Teen Events are set and now online here. I've planned the events from January to April, and I'm pretty pleased with all that's going on. You can still register at the online library calendar as usual. I've created a link to both the calendar and the teen events page on the right side of this blog. Here are just a few things to do:

• Game Fests - Our board game times have been ramped up and now include video games (PS2 and X-box), so be sure to sign up early! Food and board games will still be present. I welcome any of you to bring your own games too. The Game Fests will happen on the first Sundays of the month, and every other Thursday night.
• Teen Movies
• Spa Night
• Teen Advisory Board - I want to know what you want. Ready to stage your own gaming tournament, or set up a chocolate workshop, or suggest new books? Bring your friends and a pizza craving.
  
• LAN Party Lock-In - Duel it out on networked computers for PC play during Grand Opening week in February. Other PS2 and X-box gaming will be available. Hurry and sign up!
• DDR & Pizza Taste-Off (Spring Break week)

Register early, and if you have any questions, email or IM me. See ya there.

Hoot - Take a Mysterious Trip to Florida

The movie Hoot is coming out in Spring 2006. It looks to be a fun flick. Some of you might have seen the movie trailer already (like I did at The Chronicles of Narnia showing). Well, I'm hoping it's as good as the book upon which its based. If you're looking for a winter getaway (from your armchair, no doubt), a little mystery and some zaniness thrown in for good measure, look no furthur than Carl Hiaasen's book Hoot. We've got a few copies still in, and we also have it in CD format. And the companion book, Flush, just came out and is causing some buzz too. Carl Hiaasen sets all his books in his native Florida, and has written several novels for adults as well. Tell me what ya think!

Target in New Castle?

RUMOR WARNING: A former library employee and witty blogger has indicated here that she's heard Target may be coming soon. Who else out there gets all giddy with glee when they see that red bullseye? Let's hope that such a fab store comes to this little metropolis of New Castle, Indiana and stays. Yippee!

King Kong

If you haven't already, move your shape and get on down to the Castle theater to see KING KONG! It has something for everyone: horror, suspense, romance and amazing special effects and graphics. Movies have gotten so sophisticated with graphics, nothing is quite as spectacular as it used to be, but this will thrill you. I promise. It's like a summer blockbuster right in the dead of winter. Director Peter Jackson trys to outdo his Lord of the Rings trilogy and he does...and then some. Checkout the original RKO pictures release of the 1933 classic here at the library - you can see how it still remains one of Peter Jackson's favorites.

Lick the Cold, Read Something Bold

I don't know about you, but that title makes me laugh...

Okay, but seriously...What is it... really? Well, basically if you visit the library 10 times and check out books and/or audiobooks, you get a prize. Next time you come in, grab a Winter Reading card and get it stamped by a staff person each time you visit. If you sign up in December, ya get candy. And the program runs until Grand Opening Week, February 18th. So you have plenty of time to make those 10 visits. But I know you'll come more often to get on the computers, right?

Let it WHAT? / IM at your Library!

...Snow. Yup. It's been fun, folks, I'll have to say. Got out last night with my husband and his daughter and our dog, Libby, and slid around in the white stuff for awhile. It was quite windy!
But all the better to come in for hot chocolate.

And if the library had been open, we might have had a delay today... But, man, I had a big ole mug of snow ice cream last night and it was GOOD! I love it.

The library is getting there...it's almost here...in the meantime, check it out------

IM at your Library!

And speaking of getting there, you don't have to if you if you have a simple question over IM, say a movie you want or any library questions at all---yesiree, we have IM at the library.

My screenames follow, but all you have to do is look to the righthand side and see if I'm online.

Yahoo: anewla
AIM: nchcplangela
MSN: angelad@nchcpl.lib.in.us

More IM to come for the AV desk as well!