What's Up For Young Adults At The Library

Registrations for Special YA Programs

Don't forget to sign up for "Nails by Mrs. Kathy" on Monday July 9 beginning at 9:30 AM. This program on manicuring was a sell out last summer. Mrs. Kathy, a licensed nail technician will teach Young Adults how to manicure, decorate and take care of their nails. Each participant will receive a personal nail kit and will be supervised as they give themselves a manicure. The program is limited to 15 participants at each session. The sessions are at 5:30 and 7 PM on Monday, July 23. Choose one session when registering.

Registration began Tuesday, June 26 for "Where In the World is the YA Department?" In keeping with the mystery theme of the club, this first event planned for the summer is a way for young adults to become familiar with the layout of the department during its renovation. While the library undergoes a facelift in the Young Adult Department, the collection has been relocated. The evening will open with a tour of where the collection has been temporarily moved. It will be followed by a library scavenger hunt. You may sign up as a team or an individual and be grouped by chance. We may have a sorting hat determine teams! The program begins at 7 PM on Tuesday, July 10th. Prizes will be awarded at 8:30PM.

On Monday, July 2 registration will begin for "The Science of Fingerprints". A retired New York City Police Detective who worked as a fingerprint expert will give a hands-on lesson in fingerprinting, fingerprint analysis and identifications. This program will be held on Monday July 16 at 7 PM.

YA Guessing Game

The winners for the first week of the YA Guessing Game have been determined. The exact number of potato chip bags was 21. Three students guessed 22 and one guessed 20. The prize was divided 4 ways. Congratulations go to Peter Alford, John Michon, Jackie Reid and Cara Matina.

Teens and Tots Storytime at the G.C.

Pool Training Sessions

The Garden City Pool season has started. In a few weeks the 20 year tradition of Young Adults who will be in grades 6 - 12 in September 2007 sharing their time and talents with youngsters aged 2-8 by conducting storytimes at the Garden City Pool begins. "Teens & Tots Storytime" is held at the pool on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons beginning July 10 and ending August 8. Veteran storytellers were mailed schedules in May. If you lost the letter or put it aside please call or email the Young Adult Librarian to participate again this summer. New trainees were given the letter upon completion of the training session. Please return those schedules so that the Librarian will be prepared for your arrival.

Summer Reading Club - 2007

Registration began on Monday, June 18 for the Young Adult Summer Reading Club. The theme for 2007 is YNK - You Never Know. Love mystery and puzzles? Then you will enjoy the Summer Reading Club. Any student entering grades 6-12 in September 2007 is invited to register fro the club beginning Monday, June 18th. There are two ways to register. You may stop at the Young Adult desk, fill out a registration form and receive a bag with a sign up prize and review forms. Or, you may go on line to the Garden City Public Library website, www.gardencitypl.org, click the link to Young Adult, click the link to Summer Reading Club, and submit a registration. When your registration is received a bag will be put aside fro you to pick up at your earliest convenience.

Next is a Yak & Snack session on July 11 at 7:30 PM. Refreshments will be served and a discussion of the book, Dovey Coe by Frances O'Roark Dowell will take place in the library. Dovey Coe says what's on her mind, so it's no secret that she can't stand Parnell Caraway. So when Parnell turns up dead, and Dovey is in the room where his body is discovered, she soon finds herself on trial for murder. Can the outspoken Dovey sit still and trust a city slicker lawyer who's still wet behind the ears to get her out of the biggest mess of her life?

For more information on these and future programs check the Garden City Public Library's website at www.gardencitypl.org. Funding for these programs has been provided by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.