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Gearing up for Summer Reading!

5/4/2011

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Hey teens! It's getting to be that time of year again, and we are about to start our Summer Reading Contest! This year's theme is 'You are Here.'  It all has to do with travel and/or finding your way or finding yourself. If you are interested in participating, you can come into the library and pick up a bingo card, or download one from the teen site on the 'teen summer reading' page. See the bingo card for rules! This also means that Laura and I might be visiting some of you in your classrooms over the next several weeks, so be sure to say hi! This year the teen department is raffling off some seriously cool prizes! Each time you complete a bingo you get a raffle ticket! Prizes include Rock Band game for XBox plus equipment and a $25 gift card to Hastings, Mountain Home, and the movie theater! The contest begins June 1st so pick up your bingo card soon and get cracking!  
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Laramie Area Visitor Center's 5th Annual Photo Contest

4/8/2011

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Here's a contest for all the budding photographers out there! The Laramie Area Visitor's Center is looking for  photographs of Western Heritage, Landscapes, Winter Activities, Summer Activities, Buildings/Museums, and Wildlife.  There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each of six catagories! 

Entries are due by April 29th, 2011.

For the entry form and all the other details, visit the center's website at http://www.visitlaramie.org/photoContest.html

-Anna
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Great Scavenger Hunt Contest (you could win $50!)

3/1/2011

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The Great Scavenger Hunt Contest™ is a brand-new, super easy, totally FREE reading program for teen and youth librarians. This year-round program is open to librarians in the U.S. and Canada, in public libraries and school libraries alike. It offers fun, fast, cool programming that’ll keep your kids and teens coming back to the library for more.

Over 200 YA and middle grades authors have created a 10-question trivia challenge for one or more of their books. Trivia challenges include fun questions like “What was the color of Moe’s hideous car?” or “What is Gemma’s favorite comfort food?” (Check out the book lists in the left hand nav bar to see all of the participating titles.) Every trivia challenge also has a special note from the author to give it a personal touch. And administering the program couldn’t be easier!

To participate, readers (called hunters) simply read a participating book, complete the author trivia challenge, and turn it in to you. If they get 8 out of 10 answers correct, you get to enter them in the monthly contest. Easy, right?

Every month, I’ll choose one lucky hunter as the winner. Winning hunters will receive a $50 gift card to the bookstore of their choice to use for whatever their heart desires. Even better, when they win, YOU win too… a library prize tote filled with more terrific Great Scavenger Hunt Contest™ books for your library collection.

Fun, fast, simple plus free prizes. It doesn’t get any better than that, does it?



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New Contest for Y'all

2/12/2011

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Attention teens!  You can help win up to $3,000 for your library.  Here’s how: Make a video!
  • Gather your friends and put together an original 1-3 minute video about why you need your library.  Up to six people can work together to submit a video.
  • Pick your technique: Entries can be live-action, animation, machinima, or a combination of these.  Check out this list of tips and resources on making a video.
  • Read through the judging criteria to see how entries will be judged.
Upload your video to YouTube
  • Upload the video to YouTube between January 11, 2011 and midnight April 18, 2011.
  • Be sure to tag your video with alaneedmylibrary15 if your designated videographer is between the ages of 13-15 or alaneedmylibrary18 if your designated videographer is between the ages of 16-18.
Mail in your entry form
  • One more thing: Don’t forget to mail in an entry form. Videos are submitted online, but an entry form needs to be received in the mail by April 18 in order for a submission to be eligible. 
  • Read the complete guidelines for more information.
Prizes

From each age category (13-15 and 16-18):
  • Three 3rd place winners will receive $1,000 each for their selected libraries.
  • Two second place winners will receive $2,000 each for their selected libraries. 
  • One winner or group of winners will receive $3,000 for their selected library, plus $50 gift cards to an online bookseller for each individual member of the winning group (limit of 6 participants per group)
The Why I Need My Library Video Contest is an initiative of 2010-2011 ALA President Roberta Stevens to engage teenagers as library advocates.

For more information, contact whyIneedmylibrary@ala.org.
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A Decade of Defining Diversity Through Dialogue

12/15/2010

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Hey Teens, I have another contest to tell you about.

A Decade of Defining Diversity Through Dialogue January 17- 21

"What Diversity Means To Me" Essay and Poster Contest
Deadline: January 7
For more information contact Cary Berry at cberry@uwyo.edu


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Attention Budding Film Makers!

11/12/2010

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C-SPAN is sponsouring a Student Documentary competition for grades 6-12. They will be awarding $50,000 in prize money. The topic is, Washington DC, Through My Lens. The deadline for submissions is January 20th, 2011. See the link below for more details!

C-SPAN's StudenCam
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    Laura & Bailey

    Laura Prestia and Bailey Murray are the Young Adult Specialists here at the Albany County Public Library.

    Please feel free to join Laura and Bailey Thursdays from 4 to 5pm @ the library for teen programing, see the events page for list of activities. 

    NOTE: Comments with no name, contain advertisements and/or irrelevant  contact information will be deleted from the blog. Please keep comments relevant to the topic, and please do not advertise.


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