The Card Catalog of Creativity Blog has a nice overview of a Teen Advisory Group Meeting in which teens painted book ends for the library. The activity allowed teens to personalize the teen collection.

Thinking about a renovation? The Indie librarian shares research on the types of furniture teens do and don’t like in their libraries. While some furniture may be cute in the children’s area if placed in the teen area the furniture would be out-of-place.

If you need to attract teens to the library, then why not build a state-of-the-arch gaming facility equipped with xbox 360s and gaming PCs? Carver’s Bay branch library in South Carolina did just that and gained more than 60 members for the teen gaming club within the first week of opening.

Tech Related

If you have logged onto Facebook recently, chances are you read the news about profiles appearing in Google search results. This may be a good time to remind teens about controlling privacy settings on public profiles.

Lit Related

The latest episode of JetSet highlights diy ‘zines. I thank twitter for the introduction to Jetset, which is a quick mashup of the weekly news in a digestible video format. The last episode included more than one story related directly to teens and the pop culture that influences them so much.

A new blog featuring urban lit reviews is looking for – reviews! For more information, visit streetfiction.org.

Teen Read Week is just about four weeks away! There is still time to register on the YALSA web site. Visit ala.org/teenread before September 17th to register.