library i'm shannon and i and this linda and we are here to tell you everything that you need to know about what's happening at the theaters to public library we bring it to your home but it's really children's department in young adult department right because that we have so much going on that we couldn't possibly talk about everything right that you're a very busy library with a very busy or the busiest library in peter's township y  around the globe with miss linda which has been taken some time to get organized to hear i'm excited to hear what you have to say well now what whatever you're just having a tough time today ok this this anyway this is such a touching story about libraries we take so much for granted like how lucky we are that we have such a nice library there with it was a rainy day by the way i just want to put that out there it was rainy some of the shovel were a little kind of yucky so don't judge us ok so anyway this is all good it's a junior senior high school in a very small town called greenville california and this story is just crazy the article that came out of the national library journal was it's called how to crowdsource a library and what they did was they this woman wanted to get a library up and going again but here is the story she called it it's called just period one period book three words just one book and it was a crowd sourced plea for donations to rebuild the library at the greenville junior senior high school now this is this is really interesting this is where i feel phil very blessed in her rural hometown of greenville now also in that building not only do they have the junior senior high school they have an academy charter school in there too so it must be like the building in the town that right does all of it is the school exactly so what she wanted to do was rebuild the library which would benefit both you know because both schools would be able to enjoy it but listen to this the current stacks were woefully out of date and her any ollie short on funds so they never had funds and the school stopped purchasing new texts new books for the library approximately already twenty years ago twenty years ago with that was what left in there and what was in there and not only that back  then they had they had a part they quit buying books twenty years ago and there was an a part don't listen to this any of our bosses because there was only one part time li aid was the only position they're ok and that was eliminated in two thousand and six so one for the last ten years there hasn't been a library ok and just those old ones out there said she was you know determined so she got all kinds of parents to you know volunteer and asked everybody will you donate a book a real book she said something  something that speaks to your truth and on and on and then she goes on to say we're pretty isolated here this is where it gets kind of sad to a lot of our kids don't have access to many age appropriate books have somewhere in here i don't believe that even had a bookstore in the town so that these kids really didn't have anything all this sudden so she started this crowdsourcing getting everybody through the internet people were so great they passed on her blog was posted more than three thousand times and then it was helped you like this helped by two authors that retreated one of her twitter posts neil gaiman's and mani python's eric idle well and then she posted a wish list on amazon which people were going on and doing this i mean they were like oh my gosh how could you not have a library and when i was young when i was a kid i lived in the library and on and on and on they said they got so so many kind people and all the kids volunteered the parents volunteered guess how many they got thousand books but guess what else that was given to them telescope bookshelves gift cards school supplies d v d offers from authors to skype throughout the school year and more and then the collection was so awesome then that greenvale they went ahead with all their extras and donated more than two thousand duplicate to the nearby  schools and that's what she said she said that we really struck a chord the one woman said i grew up in a small town i lived in the library and folks saved me this is what the library looks like now it's really small i don't know if you'll be able to get in on this and it's a little blurry ok we're macon at least the shelves are not empty yeah i mean it's kind of blurry if you can get in on it but now think about it they haven't been bought books have been bought for twenty years no student in that school is even alive many years ago right and you know what else it's so cool that the kids are so excited and so proud of it that they came up with an idea that they want to like revamp it  and paint and make it fresh and do this and do that and i think it's such a cool story i just put the word out and sells and all those authors it just i felt really touched when i read it and that's awesome i know it's a really good story yeah right even fathom because we're sort of lost in our community you know great public libraries and school library i know and you know what reading that i'm glad you said that because it went out we're never short on donations either because we have such a true we do get good day the nation's but the school teacher thing are the school librarian you know with all the cuts in education you know the librarians are be librarians are being caught and you know so and no updated books or anything and it was planned every and yeah and just the way the education the kids miss out on it people realize how important librarians are and how can you develop a love for reading you don't have anything to read you exactly you know what there was one girl in there she wrote about a girl that was going through the books all the kids could you imagine it's like what we see on lynn's desk all the battery so they have boxes after boxes being to livered and the kids were so excited they thought it was like christmas so they would open them up and they'd go through them and then like they would stop and this one little girl just stopped and she looked at this book and she looked at this woman was in charge of and she goes well do you mind if i stop for a while i'd really like to read this book how cool is that so it was like august fifth at three o'clock in the afternoon ok friday afternoon three o'clock be there in before i go this is the best i could do for glasses i brought this because i'm going to read it thoroughly so that i can come to that party and anybody is welcome to check this out there you go everything you need and then when you go in here it just tells you exactly what i'm going to need to do so on and i want to learn or listen at the door yeah so anybody that wants and needs the instruction manual before the party yep we've got they got it and that's actually i'm glad you said that because it was for got so super that reverses superman we have i want to i always like to mention our graphic novels because sometimes they're forgotten we have an awesome graphic novel collection we really do and they're not just popular for teens they're popular for adults or read them as well as you know tons of superman hears of me and superman we have tons this is just like a glimpse of what we have are these at the library here is a man and a hunter  write some are new are there but i wonder i want to just revisit them because idea oh definitely so we know that we have that we have them so with the excitement of that new movie just being released on d v d and it did pretty well the theaters like you know  out the manual on how to be a super hero you're good to go yeah see now you're yawning because we're filming this kind of late long now for you it doesn't matter what am i saying you yawn when we're taping it eight thirty in the morning yeah all right what about moving on so we're going to be doing something pretty cool this summer we're partnering with the rec center do you want to say a little bit about that most linda let's talk about what we're doing and sure go for it well i'm still i'll talk about it because i'm kind of debating whether you know maybe get come up and do it or something to my coming up or i'd like to know if you want to ok here it is you don't have to hold your breath anymore we are doing a tween olympics ye right and while in the spirit of the olympics that start the fifth right and going up and for the first time i think are what our department is partnering with the president or yeah the one she so all the way all the kids and if you're entering grades three through six you can you do not have to have a rexona membership to join and make sure people know that that was that was i asked you can come over to the rec center on august fifteenth to him or him doing a little mock olympic games has some really cool prizes i'm giving away some really cool limbic stuff both athletic and really good leave it we love silly ok so no talent required oh then i program but we do ask you sign a piece and call us or comes the librarian sign up and that way we know who to expect right because there's going to be a lot more than what's going to be in the library program right ok that'll be fine hopefully the olympics so why not you can actually be we should do this bit that's what i was just going to do and so in the spirit of national watermelon day we are going to have a team the we've never been in a food eating contest that we decide to do it on now because it's been so popular as though always the second friday of the month at three thirty the date times are on that i know the right time good thing thirty eight thirty we have a super smash brothers tournament so you can come  it's open for anyone who wants to join in for a tournament anyone who went the winner will receive a five dollars gift card so we do it once a month because it's so much fun the kids love it oh that's nice and then register for that oh yes you can  talk about to talk about something but i'll talk about this you can talk about whatever you want this and i i'm going to talk about this has to do with what we have anyway oh cool i decided machine and that there is so much available online on our website too that we need i just thought oh my gosh of all the things that the kids can library that's true this is the first one that i'm going to do this is skull lastic and it's book flicks and this is where the kids can get on and they pick a story a fiction story and then they are given options of stories to pick that are nonfiction that they match them up together and so that they're there to julie read to them and they're one is i think one is th you'll read in the other one that they read themselves maybe the nonfiction they read themselves ok but here's what's cold as an example give you some stats or not that's just what they put on this thing this is what you can get out we don't have to look it up no no they could just go in and start doing it themselves they give you a whole like i just printed out this one and has like took a chick a boom boom chicken little curious george they said that they can just go through and pick these books and look at the levels get all their points but you know here's what's really cool they list the authors they list the illustrators after the title but here this i was so excited about they list the narrator's now i love listening to stories on cd it's like being read to you know it i love it i know we've probably talked about a million times in here but i love it and it is i even find it more interesting most of the time when the authors themselves read it you know because they know what they mean they're most emotion so in here they put the na it's like holy cow look at this helen hunt for chicken little and hank as as area as that girl so anybody else that i recognize and you recognize that you know to get to such talented people also to be reading reading the fiction books and again and then see how they link it up to link it up to nonfiction titles that go with it and they read the  this time of the year all the kids have their their mobile devices you can do this right from our web site from your mobile device yet just and rack up points and get your points done yeah are they not i have had kids i pad parents if they can take the test at the library which you cannot because we don't have that but i think my question is because i can't remember with my children do they are they allowed to do the points all summer long and then they cool stuff on these social medias all the time and one thing that we have going both discussions all the month of july we talked about the election like your cast which side note best series i've read for the longest time and i'm an addict to it there's a five books of the series it he wrote the testing which is a very popular series we've done that with our book club before too and that was actually a trilogy this is a stand alone book called meet and it is about this girl and she is how your other friend and he says oh you need to go to this website and brother just found all you do is you type in something that you want and you get it so much and she's like oh i don't know why i feel i just got a brand new i phone it's true and so wow she finds out that in order to get these things you kind of have to do some tasks that are not necessarily something she will so you have to decide between your needs and your wants so makes you question what you really need she has a really big one that is a need her brothers are terminally ill and so she wants to do ever she can to help and get better so she knows she has a need a kidney for her sick brother who doesn't believe the social networking site can help but it couldn't hurt to try wow that sounds good yeah it does and i love the twist in there that the need where it's actually something that is important in writing and you know right it's going to be a good one so i read this throughout the month of august i'll be posting things on our social networking which is at the g p l teens for any social networking that you might have and you can join in on our conversation because every time you pick it up and you tell about it you've talked me into it so it has to work out there yeah you know they're going to want it you know i'm not easily swayed or anything now you know like to read yeah exactly