LAKE COUNTY — “Books with Beat @ Your Library” is the theme of the 2010 Teen Read Week. Lakeport Library invites teens to a “Books with Beat” program, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at 1425 N. High St. in Lakeport.
Library director Susan Clayton will introduce the program, then library technician Amy Patton and teen volunteer Christie Zurcher will present activities to acquaint teens with some of the library”s electronic resources and what”s new in teen literature. The library address is
During the Lakeport program, a podcast from the American Library Association will reveal the Teens” Top 10 Most Popular Books for 2010. Teen book groups across the country read and reviewed new young adult books, then nominated their favorites, which teens then voted on. The Web site for the Young Adult Services Library Association, www.ala.org/yalsa, has more information about the Teens” Top 10.
For teens who like to read but are too busy to read, downloadable audio books might be a solution. Listeners can enjoy the books at their convenience while doing other things. The library presentation will demonstrate how to download free audio books to portable electronic devices. Accessible through the library Web site, the Overdrive Audiobook catalog owns more than 2,300 titles, a collection that grows all the time.
The entertainment segment of the evening will bring the audience into Neal Shusterman”s young adult dystopian tale “Unwind.” What would life be like in a future world where teens can be “unwound” to supply body parts for other people? “Unwind” explores that question and provokes the reader to think about what matters in life.
The evening will include refreshments, giveaways and prizes for the audience. The library staff invites all book-loving teens to attend this free program and to learn more about the library”s resources.
Visit the Lake County Library Web site at http://library.co.lake.ca.us or on Facebook. With a library card, patrons have access to the collections of Lake, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, amounting to more than 1 million books. From the library”s online catalog or from an in-library catalog computer, a patron can request books from anywhere in the system and have them delivered to any library branch.
Lakeport Library is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday noon to 8 p.m. For more information, call 263-8817.
Jan Cook is a library technician with the Lake County Library.
