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We love our teen volunteers - they're amazing! Each summer roughly 70 teens staff our Summer Reading sign up table. Think your teen would like to be a Summer Reading Club volunteer? Have them come to the library and pick up an application in either the YA area on the 2nd floor or the Teen Lounge on the 3rd.

I've been working with teen volunteers for several years now and I'd like to talk about how you, as a parent, can prep your teen to make the most of their volunteer experience.

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. The anthology is a collection of over two hundred interconnected free verse epitaphs spoken by former residents of the fictional town of Spoon River, who come forward from their graves to tell us the truth about their lives. Sometimes, the truth is uncomfortable. Spoon River was an immediate and commercial success when it was published in 1915.

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Video games have risen to national prominence in our culture, with AAA video game budgets exceeding Hollywood blockbuster films.  As video games have gained wide popularity, they have also attracted strong demand here at DPPL.  We’re happy and eager to meet this growing demand with a greater number and selection of games.

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My husband and I both grew up in Michigan -- I hail from the Upper Peninsula (UP), and he grew up in Southeastern Michigan (but with a deep love for the UP and all things outdoors.) Early on in our relationship we discovered we also shared a love of camping; our families had both spent a lot of time camping on family vacations when we were kids. 

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The Youth Services Department is so excited to share some big news that we have been tirelessly working on all winter long. We're sure you've seen us running around the department, measuring, and talking excitedly about the renovation project that has been ongoing since last spring when the Storytime Room was expanded. Through programs and conversations at the desk, we've gotten to be close with families that frequent our department. Because of that, we wanted to be the ones to break the news to you, our dear library family, ourselves.

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