DBRLTeen

Teens created this video for our VOLaTiLE (VOLunteer Teens in Library Environments) program.

Author Jennifer Brown

Celebrate Teen Read Week with Jennifer Brown, author of the newly released teen novel “Hate List.” In the book, Valerie Leftman must come to grips with a tragic school shooting her boyfriend carried out and the role she played in it when she helped him create a list of things and people they hated. Based in the Kansas City area, Jennifer Brown is a two-time winner of the Erma Bombeck Global Humor Award and the humor columnist for The Kansas City Star. “Hate List” is her first novel. Come hear her speak and answer your questions.  Register NOW!

Click here to see if we have a copy of “Hate List” in!

Come in and try DDR, Guitar Hero and the newest addition to our lineup…Rock Band! Don’t worry if you’ve never tried it; come learn with us. Ages 13-18.

If you’re a fan of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, you’ll want to sign up today for our Twilight Party.  Join us for a book discussion, trivia contests, scavenger hunts, crafts, prizes, music, and blood-red food.  Ages 13 and older, and that includes adults too!  Sign up by calling the library at 443-3161, or stopping by the Children’s/Teen desk on the first floor.

Columbia Public Library – Friends Room
Monday March 23
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Design a bookmark for Daniel Boone Regional Library’s upcoming Summer Reading program for kids and teens. The teen theme this year is “Express Yourself” and the kids’ theme is “Be Creative.” Help us promote summer reading this year by designing an original bookmark. The top three winners in each age bracket (13-18 or under 13) from each facility will get their bookmarks printed and distributed this spring and summer. Entry deadline is March 31. One entry per person, please

Click here for the teen entry form.

Click here for the pre-teen entry form.

DDR and Guitar Hero II at the library – teens only!

Columbia - 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Tuesday January 13

Fulton - 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Wednesday January 14

Columbia Philatelic (Stamp Collectors) Society will have a stamp show at the library!  Displays and collections from many countries, and lots of questions and answers from the experts.

Columbia - Friends Room
Sunday Nov. 2
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Check out the iheartcolumbia blog of interesting events happening in Columbia!

http://iheartcolumbia.com/

Bring your friends to see the 1953 classic movie War of the Worlds, complete with all the cheezy 45-year-old special effects you could want.  Actually I jest: its interesting to see how movie makers did special effects in the days before computers!

Columbia - in the Egg
TEENS ONLY!
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Please call 443-3161 and register in advance!

Women make up only 7% of filmmakers, but not for long … More details at Stephens College site.

Columbia - Stephens College

Register now to participate in a discussion of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, the first book in the series.  Discussions will be in Fulton 11/11, Columbia 11/12, and Ashland 11/18.  Register now and pick up your free copy of the book!  Don’t delay, copies are limited!

Fulton, Columbia, and Ashland
Teens only!
Register now for November discussions!

Join us this evening to say goodbye for another year to the beautiful star pattern known as the Summer Triangle where we’ll see the Ring Nebula, an exploding star, and the beautiful blue and gold star Alberio. The planet Jupiter, will also be just visible above the trees as it gets dark. By this time, we will know for sure the fate of Jupiter’s new Red Spot Junior and whether or not it has combined with the Great Red Spot. Early fall skies can be wonderful, so please plan to attend! Hosted by Val Germann and cosponsored by the Central Missouri Astronomical Association.

Columbia
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
All Ages
Program Room, Children’s Area (Enter through the Gene Martin Secret Garden, west end of main parking lot.)

Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero II!  Bring your friends and humiliate them with your amazing dance and rock star moves!  Snacks provided!

Columbia
Program Room, Children’s Area
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Ages 13-18 only!

Astronomy teacher Roy Morris instructs attendees about comets.  Participants who arrive early or stay late may view the sun or the night sky through the big telescope.  Viewing begins at 6:15 p.m. Space is limited, registration required.

Columbia-Rock Bridge High School Planetarium
Call 214-3100 to register.  Free!

In conjunction with the exhibit “Alley Oop: 75 Years of the Comic World of V.T. Hamlin” at the University of Missouri, we will host a panel of young up-and-coming cartoonists, including Ted May, Sacha Mardou, Matt Kindt and Jeff Zwirek, who will share their experiences as cartoonists in this digital world. Kristin Schwain, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri, will moderate the panel. Cosponsored by the Special Collections, Archives and Rare Books Division of UMC. The artists will have copies of their works for sale. For more information about the exhibit: mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections.

Columbia
All Ages
2:00 p.m. Friends Room

Freedom Sings presents the First Amendment through music that has been banned, censored, or served as a social anthem. More information here.

Columbia
Mizzou Arena
8:00 p.m.
FREE!

Bill Mize is a fingerstyle guitarist who’s doing a concert for us.  He’s won a Grammy and recorded several albums.  What is fingerstyle?  See this website.  Hear some of Bill’s samples on his myspace.

Some important events in his life (from his myspace page):

• 1952 – Born in East Tennessee
• 1955 – Totaled his first car (Buick) at age three….
• 1956 – Saw Elvis on TV… took up the ukelele.
• 1961 – Took up sister’s Stella guitar after his ukelele was smashed over his behind by his father…
• 1985 – Won the Winfield National Guitar Championship on a generic japanese guitar, with bar-b-q sauce on his fingers…

Columbia
Please register in advance – call 817-7170
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. in the Friends Room
All Ages!

And here’s a short Youtube video of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with music by Bill Mize:

Don’t miss this opportunity to see Jupiter, the King of the Planets, and the solar system’s largest storm, the Great Red Spot. We’ll talk about Jupiter and the spot, adding the latest news about yet another red spot, called Junior, discovered last spring. If the weather is clear, we’ll head outside to view Jupiter and the beautiful crescent moon through a telescope. The landing site of the first Apollo moon mission will easily be in view until about 9:30 p.m. Hosted by Val Germann and cosponsored by the Central Missouri Astronomical Association. Enter through the Gene Martin Secret Garden, west end of main parking lot.

Columbia
All Ages
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Meet in the Program Room, Children’s Area

One of our most popular books right now is The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan.  This is book 4 in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.  Register for the discussion, and you’ll get a FREE COPY OF THE BOOK to read before the discussion.

Columbia
Ages 9 – 13 only (sorry older teens!)
7:00 – 8:00 p.m., in the Program Room, Children’s Area
Registration required, starting Tuesday 9/2