Teen Tech Week - QR Code Scavenger Hunt

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to come to the library sometime between Monday, March 11th and Friday, March 15th and search for QR codes hidden throughout the library. Grab a handout from the Teen Librarian's desk and list all of the sites the QR codes take you to. When you're done, turn in the handout to the Teen Librarian or one of the Children's Librarians. At the end of the week I'll review all of the handouts and collect the names of everyone who got all the right answers. I'll randomly draw a name from this group and that person will win a $25 dollar gift card to their choice of Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or iTunes.

What: QR Code Scavenger Hunt
Where: Mooresville Public Library
When: March 11 to March 15 during open hours
How: Download a free QR code app to your smart phone and scan the codes hidden throughout the library. The codes will take you to a website of my choosing. Write down the information from the website on the handout provided at the Teen Librarian's desk in the YAZ. Once completed, turn the handout in to the Teen Librarian or one of the Children's Librarians.
Why: 1) To celebrate Teen Tech Week at MPL, 2) Because it's fun, and 3) You could win a prize!

Happy Hunting!

Meg-A-Rae Episode 23: A Very Special Tekkie Episode

On this week's episode of Meg-A-Rae, Meg and I discuss Technology! Technology non-fiction available at the library, technology services (like checking out library e-books and researching with library databases) provided by the library, and technology themed books that are awesome to read! Meg reviews Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson (a great adult read with crossover potential for our older teens). I review Cinder by Marissa Meyer (a great teen read with crossover potential for adults).

Join us next week as we celebrate MARDI GRAS!!!

P.S. Teen Tech Week is coming March 10-16th!

Teen Tech Week Book Lists: Part 4 - Time Travel

In honor of Teen Tech Week, I've put together a series of book lists that fit the technology theme. These lists include Technology, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, and Time Travel.

This is the last list in the series: TIME TRAVEL (aka Timey Wimey)

(Note: this list doesn't cover the vast number of titles that fit the Time Travel description; these are titles selected from MPL's collection. Also, some titles may be repeated on multiple lists!)

Crewel (Crewel World #1)	Albin, Gennifer
The Future of Us	Asher, Jay and Carolyn Mackler
London Calling	Bloor, Edward
Pathfinder (Pathfinder series)	Card, Orson Scott
So Close to You	Carter, Rachel
Ruby Red	Gier, Kerstin
Through to You	Hainsworth, Emily
The Obsidian Blade	Hautman, Pete
Erasing Time (Erasing Time #1)	Hill, C.J.
Firestorm (Caretaker Trilogy)	Klass, David
hourglass	McEntire, Myra
The Curse of the Romanovs	Rabin, Staton
Time Riders	Scarrow, Alex

Teen Tech Week Book Lists: Part 3 - Steampunk

In honor of Teen Tech Week, I've put together a series of book lists that fit the technology theme. These lists include Technology, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, and Time Travel.

This is the third list in the series: STEAMPUNK

(Note: this list doesn't cover the vast number of titles that fit the Steampunk description; these are titles selected from MPL's collection. Also, some titles may be repeated on multiple lists!)

The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City	Axelrod, Jared & Steve Walker (Ill.)
Pure	Baggott, Julianna
The Dark Unwinding	Cameron, Sharon
Airman	Colfer, Eoin
Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo #1)	Cornish, D.M.
The Girl in the Steel Corset	Cross, Kady
Something Strange and Deadly	Dennard, Susan
Magic Under Glass	Dolamore, Jaclyn
Incarceron	Fisher, Catherine
Masque of the Red Death	Griffin, Bethany
Pearl Wars (Skyship Academy #1)	James, Nick
The Iron Thorn	Kittredge, Caitlin
Stormdancer (Lotus War #1)	Kristoff, Jay
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories	Link, Kelly
The Peculiars	McQuerry, Maureen Doyle
Airborn	Oppel, Kenneth
Steampunk Poe	Poe, Edgar Allen
Steampunk Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary
The Hunchback Assignments (Hunchback Assignments #1)	Slade, Arthur
The Unnaturalists	Trent, Tiffany
The Steampunk Bible	VanderMeer, Jeff
Steampunk HG Wells	Wells, H.G.
Leviathan	Westerfeld, Scott

Teen Tech Week Book List: Part 2 - Science Fiction

In honor of Teen Tech Week, I've put together a series of book lists that fit the technology theme. These lists include Technology, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, and Time Travel.

This is the second list in the series: SCIENCE FICTION

(Note: this list doesn't cover the vast number of titles that fit the Science Fiction description; these are titles selected from MPL's collection. Also, some titles may be repeated on multiple lists!)

Feed	Anderson, M. T.
The Future of Us	Asher, Jay
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)	Card, Orson Scott
Breathe (Breathe #1)	Crossan, Sarah
Halo: The Flood	Dietz, William C
Pirate Cinema	Doctorow, Cory
For the Win	Doctorow, Cory
Little Brother	Doctorow, Cory
Black Hole Sun (Black Hole Sun #1)	Gill, David Macinnis
Erasing Time (Erasing Time #1)	Hill, C.J.
Magisterium	Hirsch, Jeff
The Pearl Wars (Skyship Academy #1)	James, Nick
Awaken (Awaken #1)	Kacvinsky, Katie
Mothership	Leicht, Martin
A Wrinkle in Time (Time #1)	L'Engle, Madeleine
Momentum	Lloyd, Saci
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)	Lore, Pittacus
Planesrunner	McDonald, Ian
Cinder (Lunar Chronicles, #1)	Meyer, Marissa
The Host	Meyer, Stephenie
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1)	Ness, Patrick
A Confusion of Princes	Nix, Garth
Academy 7	Osterlund, Anne
Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)	Revis, Beth
Glow (Sky Chasers #1)	Ryan, Amy Kathleen
Time Riders	Scarrow, Alex
A Long Long Sleep	Sheehan, Anna
Inside Out (Insider #1)	Snyder, Maria V.
Dreamwalker's Child	Voake, Steve

Teen Tech Week Book Lists: Part 1 - Technology

In honor of Teen Tech Week, I've put together a series of book lists that fit the technology theme. These lists include Technology, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, and Time Travel.

This is the first list in the series: TECHNOLOGY

(Note: this list doesn't cover the vast number of titles that fit the Technology description; these are titles selected from MPL's collection. Also, some titles may be repeated on multiple lists!)

Title	Author
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd	Anthology
The Future of Us	Asher, Jay
Ashes	Bick, Ilsa
Fat Cat	Brande, Robin
iBoy	Brooks, Kevin
Ender’s Game	Card, Orson Scot
Ready Player One	Cline, Ernest
Airman	Colfer, Eoin
Hacking Timbuktu	Davies, Stephen
For the Win	Doctorow, Cory
Little Brother	Doctorow, Cory
Pirate Cinema	Doctorow, Cory
Epic	Kostick, Conor
Human.4	Lancaster, Mike
Legend	Lu, Marie
Level Up	Luen Yan, Gene
Planesrunner	McDonald, Ian
Cinder	Meyer, Marissa
Delirium	Oliver, Lauren
Erebos	Poznanski, Ursula
A Web of Air	Reeve, Philip
Across the Universe	Revis, Beth
Glow	Ryan, Amy Kathleen
Star Wars Encyclopedia	Sansweet, Stephen
Time Riders: Day of the Predator	Scarrow, Alex
Wired	Wasserman, Robin
Leviathan	Westerfeld, Scott
Uglies	Westerfeld, Scott