Today is a good day. Last night’s TSRP event was a great success, AND I’ve discovered that the staff has conspired to celebrate my upcoming birthday later today. 
The program was a cell phone texting game at the mall. Earlier this year, the YAC chose to have a scavenger hunt at the mall, and I’d been wracking my brains to dream up a way to use cell phones in a program. It was a beautiful fit. A description of the game is posted at the C3Library blog.
Ross and Aaron were key to the success of the program. I wouldn’t have been able to keep track of the five teams’ text responses by myself, and honestly, I don’t know how I’ve ever put on a TSR event without interns. I depend on them now and refuse to do it all by myself ever again!
Another thing… I think that teens like other teens to be in charge of things. I’m there if needed, but dang, I’m old! If I ever leave this job, I hope the library replaces me with a very young… guy. A guy because the rest of us are women, and I thing middle and high school guys need role models that read and are proud of it. Young because of the energy and endurance that comes with youth.
Wouldn’t it be cool if one of our male interns was inspired to become a librarian? Of course it would be just as cool if one of the girls was too.
Tags: c3 library, cell phone
