Some pictures and a video from Cabin Fever night!

To check out a video on "Northfield Patch" Click here!

Thanks to our sponsors for making it possible!

Northfield AmericInn, Northern Gardener Magazine, City Light Church, Artech and Northfield Healthy Community Initiative!  With support from Northfield's KYMN Radio, Northfield Golf Club and Domino's Pizza!!!

Cabin Fever Update!

Cabin Fever Library Mini-golf, laser tag and video game night has added DOMINOS' PIZZA! Slices of their yummy pizza will be available for purchase during Saturday nights event. We also want to thank the Northfield Golf Club on their loan of many putters! Come have some summery fun at the library Saturday night 6-8!

New and improved Cabin Fever events planned!

Play golf, laser tag and video games at the Northfield Public Library!  Yep, the library!  The library's Teen Advisory Board is putting together a super event to help drive away those winter blahs. 

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On Saturday, February  26  from 6 until 8 pm there will be a  9 hole mini-golf course, laser tag area and assorted video games set up throughout the library. 

People of all ages are invited to play.  $5 fee per-person or $15 a foursome. This is the only fundraiser the Teen Advisory Board annually sponsors and the funds raised will be used for teen library material purchase, future events, speakers and programs.



There will be a driving range (for prizes) in the meeting room $1 will get you 3 wiffle golf balls to try to hit a prize. 

Mini Golf Hole sponsorships are needed! $75 a hole, gets your name on the hole to support the Library Teen Board and their library programs, materials and events.  Each of the 9 holes will be unique.  With your sponsorship the TAB members will create a theme of your choice. Your name or business will be prominently featured at the hole. Driving Range prizes are also sought if you would like to  donate a prize or the funds to purchase a prize.  Your name or business will be featured on the prize.  Members of TAB are out in the community gathering support.

"Supported in part by the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative, with funding from the Northfield Area United Way, Carlson Capital Management, and SAMHSA (grant number SP012242-09)."

For more information or to make a donation please call 645-1804 or email

Kathy.Ness@ci.northfield.mn.us  TAB Blog http://npl-info.blogspot.com/ and on Facebook!

Northfield Public Library

80 plus years in the making...

Stuff for the Teen Age

For 80 years, New York Public Library staff shared the best titles for teens in an annual list called Books for the Teen Age.
Last year, Books for the Teen Age became Stuff for the Teen Age, a multimedia, multi-format, targeted, and teen-tested list of the best of the year in teen books, music, graphic novels, movies, games, and more.

This year, Stuff for the Teen Age becomes a blog.

We started with this list of the 100 best titles of last year, and we’ll be posting about our picks from the list, our picks from the current year, and a variety of other topics related to teen books and media.

February meeting time is fast approaching!

Please mark your calendars!  TAB's next meeting will be Monday, Feb. 7th at 6:45-8.  We will be discussing the results from our activity survey, the Mini-Golf event and trying out the Baking Kit from SELCO!?  If if works out well, we will be enjoying some good food- if it doesn't....

See ya there!

The survey says------------------

The LIBRARY TEEN ADVISORY BOARD wants to know!

What kinds of clubs/groups would you like to see the library host?

___ Knitting/Crochet group– Learn and develop new skills, figure out things you've forgotten, all that fun stuff.

___ Anime Club– Watch short Anime and discuss it! Also playrelated games and activities

___ Teen genre book club– Pick a genre, read some books from that genre, get ideas for what books to read next.

___ A group to learn the animation program SCRATCH- Create your own animations!

___ Cooking club– Share great recipe ideas besides macaroni and cheese, ramen, and PB&J. (An oven & microwave could be available but not a stove)

___ Other-- can you think of something that would be interesting?

Please let us know! Leave a comment or email us. Or stop by the library and fill out a questionaire. THANKS

Reminder................... TAB meeting Monday, January 3rd at 6:45 pm

2011 will be here soon!  Enjoy your break! 

At the meeting we will have a special presentation on possibly starting an Anime club!

Check out these pictures from the Winter Walk!

Thanks TAB for helping at the model train night.  Your buildings were awesome!

Check out these lists for some good, recent books!

You can make a list, check it twice, doesn't matter if you've been naughty or nice!
American Library Association
s best teen books for 2010
Amazon's Best Books for Teens  
International Reading Associations top teen books for 2010

December's Meeting

Our December TAB meeting will be Monday, Dec. 6th at 6:45 until 8 pm in the library's meeting room. 
New members are always welcome! 
Come and have "a say" in what the library has for teens- books, movies, music and events. 

HAUNTED LIBRARY II- scenes of the macabre....

NOVEMBER'S meeting!!! 6:45 tonight 11/1/10

The regularly scheduled TAB meeting is tonight 6:45-8.

Hope to see you then!!!!!!

Haunted Library II

Yes, we're doing it again- haunting the library for one night only!  Saturday, Oct. 30th from 7:30 to 9.  Tours are every 15 minutes.  The St. Olaf Theatre Club has been advising us on make-up, costumes and settings!  Thanks again for a grant from the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative- with a $1 (or a food donation to the Nfld Food Shelf) you can tour the haunted library the enjoy some creepy snacks and games in the meeting room.  It will be scary- for people in grade 6 and up. 

Writing contest- you could win money!!!

The Minnesota Humanities Center, along with local co-sponsors the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, invites Minnesota’s fourth through 12^th grade students to enter the 2010-2011 Letters About Literature essay contest.
National Level Judging. Prizes will also be awarded to the 2nd and 3rd place winners.

On each competition level, a panel of national judges for the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress will select six (6) National Winners (2 per Level of Competition) and twelve (12) National Honorable Mention Winners (4 per Level of Competition). The National Winners will receive a $500 Target GiftCard, plus each will secure a $10,000 LAL Reading Promotion Grant in their name for his or her community or school library so that others can experience personal relationships with authors and the stories they tell. The National Honorable Mention Winners will each receive a $100 Target GiftCard, plus each will secure a $1,000 LAL Reading Promotion Grant in their name for his or her community or school library.
click here for more info!

TAB meeting info

People in grades 6-12 are invited to join TAB- the library's TEEN ADVISORY BOARD.  Besides helping the library serve teens better it looks GREAT on college and job applications!  We meet one night a month and have some special stuff coming up. 

1.  September's meeting is on Mon. the 13 (not Labor Day the 6th) *6:45 to 8

2.  October's meeting has to be moved to Oct. 11 it was originally scheduled for Oct. 4th but--Garrison Keillor is coming that night!! Really!

3.  The Friends of the Library Spelling Bee is Thursday, Oct. 7th- do we still want a team???

4.  MEA break is Oct. 21-22 Halloween is the next weekend (Sunday) So... when, if, how will we do the Haunted Library????

5. Have a nice start of the new school year and please consider joining TAB.

*NEW MEETING START TIME since the library closes at 8 now.

Pictures from Casino Night! We had a good time!

The people who came got 1000 worth of chips to gamble with, Brandon finished with the most chips when he bet the entire stack on 21 and got it in 2 cards!The TAB members did a great job preparing and cleaning up the evenings festivities!

Giant Game night was fun!

Check out this site for teen books!

http://www.supportlibrary.com/nl/getlink.cfm?x=740

Ever wonder how to make a candy wrapper item? Try this!

http://candywrappercrafts.blogspot.com/