My new job requires me to come up with ideas for teen programming. Well, I have a lot of ideas and no money to implement them, my library is poor and the friends of the library group is fairly new so not much help from them in monetary donations since we got some money for the summer programming from them. To top it off, the teens at my library are not receptive to our programming. It takes a lot of effort and work to get a good program going and they don't even care to show up. What is a librarian to do? Well, giving up is not an option so I've decided to do what librarians do best, research, research and research! I've concentrated on what they are into today, their reading material and what makes them tick. We'll see if all of my reading and researching pays off once I start my new web 2.o programming classes for teens. I just wish I had enough money to buy some flash drives to give them out to those who attend. I got the cupcakes covered as I'm baking them myself and I'm hoping that if there is some sort of snack after the classes, they will come, but it would be awesome if they could have their own flash drive after the classes end as a reward for learning new things. Not only is the library poor, but the kids are too, they are still using 3 1/2 disks to store the files, which is pretty sad. I tell you, Biblioteca Latinoamericana is a really nice library and I know that the neighborhood is happy that they have a library, but it could be some much cooler if teens went there to read, learn new things and not just to hang out and talk to their friends. Well, as the saying goes "We Must Prevail." and of course, "I haven't even began to fight!"
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