Make a bracelet!

Then give it to someone.
Or wrap it up real nice and give it to yourself and pretend to be surprised.
Did I mention it's a wire-wrapped bracelet?
This teen event is free, as always.

Friday, Sept 21
3:30-5:30pm

Anza Branch Library
550 37th Ave @ Geary
415-355-5717
info: mbergman@sfpl.org

more pRimp your librarian photos

Hello again from the Bayview library! Here is a link to more photos from last week's pRimp your librarian program and presentation to the Library Commission:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11511208@N02/

I will add more pics as I get permissions from teen participants. Comments welcome!

pRimp your librarian re-cap

pRimp your librarian, held last Thursday night at the Bayview branch library, was a huge success! Conveniently coinciding with the Library Commission meeting in the next room, the program encouraged teens to do two things at once: give their Teen Librarian a new look (well, several new looks!) and speak out publicly about teens in the public library.

New looks meant different clothes, makeup, and accessories for Teen Librarian Wendy. Basic categories included Classic, Sporty, and Sexy, with a few that were a little of all three! To the left is the "Before" picture.

To the right is the librarian in the bulletin board-converted "dressing room:"



















Check back soon for pics of the Bayview Teen Librarian dressed in different outfits, along with pics of participating Teens!

Get Your Game On!

Strum those notes on Guitar Hero, show your moves on DDR, and play other video games on PS2 and Wii!

Fri, July 20
2-5pm
Anza Branch
550 37th Ave (off Geary)
415.355.5717
for more info, email Marla: mbergman@sfpl.org

Stop by Anza Branch Library and bring your friends for an afternoon of summer gaming.

Bayview Shutterbug Exhibit

Here are some up-close pics from our Shutterbug Exhibit, on display here at the Bayview branch library. We had a 2-part photography workshop, where we took photos of the neighborhood with disposible cameras, then made collages with the photos. For the exhibit, we combined our photo-collages with reproductions of clippings and photos from the past, including articles from a Bayview newspaper called The Spokesman, published in the 1960s.





Here's an eyecatching headline















In loving memory













Collage by Joshua Smallwood














Yesterday and today



















Cut-ups

Do you like FREE

entertainment & refreshments?

Then come to Mission Library's

Open House

on Saturday, May 19th!!

300 Bartlett Street 12-3 p.m.

COLORED INK will be there to bring down the house with their conscious rhythms & rhymes!

Here's their MySpace page: http://tinyurl.com/yuoqzp

Come check them out and more!!

Call 355-2800 for more info.

Just Gimme the Mic 3

JUST GIMME THE MIC 3 Poetry Slam is this Friday Apr. 27 at 7:00 p.m. Come hear the finest, spittin'-est wOrDs of WiZdOm. Watch & judge as poets compete for cash prizes.

Food & drink. Free!

At the Bayview Branch Library

5075 Third Street (at Revere)

on the T-line

415-355-5757

Baseball book reviews

Baseball season is upon us! Here are two quick reviews of the Baseball Card Adventures Series, from our very own Joshua S., 9th grade:






Abner and me
by Dan Gutman

Joe Stoshack has the ability to travel through time using baseball cards. This time he goes to meet the man who invented baseball, and try to stop the Lincoln assassination. Abner and me is a real adventure.


Mickey and me
by Dan Gutman

With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards, Joe Stoshack goes back in time to meet Mickey Mantle. Mickey and Me had a great story line. 2 thumbs up!

The library doesn't have these two yet, but you can find others from the same series in the catalog.

Have another book about either baseball or time travel? Shout out a Comment!

Youth Poetry Workshop at Bayview canceled for Thurs. Apr. 5

Please make a note of it: our fabulous instructor has been called away on family business for this week. Workshop resumes next Thurs. Apr. 12 at 4:30 p.m.

Thank you!

Youth Poetry Workshop at Bayview canceled for Thurs. Apr. 5

Please make a note of it: our fabulous instructor has been called away on family visit for this week. Workshop resumes next Thurs. Apr. 12 at 4:30 p.m.

Thank you!

Bayview Teen Advisory Council Meeting tonight

B-TAC meets tonight from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Bayview Branch Library, 5075 Third St. @ Revere.

If you live in 94124 or 94134 or use this library, and you are 13-18, and want to help plan what happens here for teens, this meeting is for you. If you like to socialize, organize, and make things happen, come to our monthly meeting.

There will be pizza!

RSVP Wendy at 355-2860

MARCH MADNESS at Bayview

March Madness is upon us! Come pick your NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship winners and you could win NCAA gear or gift certificate. Hurry, entries accepted up until the first game begins Thurs. March 15 9:20 a.m. West Coast time!!

Must visit the Bayview Branch in person during open hours:

5075 Third St. (at Revere)

415-355-2860

Ask for librarians Wendy or Darcel

Chinatown Teen'Zine Annual Showcase Celebration

We are please to invite you to our Chinatown Teen'Zine Annual Showcase Celebration
Date: Saturday, March 17, 2007
Time: 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Place: San Francisco Public Library, Chinatown Branch - Community Room
The Chinatown Branch Library is located at 1135 Powell Street (near Jackson Street)
Chinatown Teen'Zine is an online magazine for teens, written by teens. Through the Teen'Zine program, teens learn writing skills, computer skills and about Asian American history & Chinese culture. We hope you could celebrate with us and see what we have accomplished this year. Join us for games, snacks, music and more!
Schedule of Events
12:30 - 1pm Program Introduction
1 - 2pm Teen Presentations
2 - 2:30pm Q & A Session
Seats are limited. Please call Jewel: 415.355.2888 for reservation
All programs at the Library are free. Sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

What do you think of CITY BEAT booklist?

Ms. Bosslady from the YMCA Just for Girls afterschool program has read practically every title on this list! Maybe you have, too. Here are her one-word opinions:

Tyrell WEAK

Money Hungry TIGHT




Who am I Without Him? Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives GOOD

Bronx Masquerade GOOD


Teenage Bluez GOOD

Bluford Series GOOD



Harlem Hustle TIGHT

Street Love GREAT

Hip-Hop High School GOOD

Flyy Girl GOOD

Ballad of a Ghetto Poet WEAK

Now, I know a lot of y'all out there will DISAGREE. So give us some comments!!!!!

This Sat. Feb. 24th

Comics Club

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Bayview Library

5075 Third St. @ Revere

415-355-2860

Manga giveaways to first 10 participants

See ya there!

Chinatown Teen'Zine Annual Showcase Celebration

We are pleased to invite you to our

Chinatown Teen’Zine
Showcase Celebration

Date: Saturday, March 17, 2007
Time: 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Place: San Francisco Public Library
Chinatown Branch - Community Room
The Chinatown Branch Library is located at 1135 Powell Street (Near Jackson Street)

Chinatown Teen’Zine is an online magazine for teens, written by
teens. Through the Teen’Zine program, teens learn writing skills,
computer skills, and about Asian American history and Chinese
culture. With the help of our sponsor, our program has been a
big success! We hope that you can celebrate with us and see
what we have accomplished this year.
Join us for games, snacks, music, and more!

Schedule of Events

12:30 - 1:00 Program Introduction
Come in and meet our teen members.
View some of the projects we have completed this year.

1:00 - 2:00 Teen Presentations
Our teen members would like to highlight some of the works that
they are especially proud of. View some of our special projects
and get a first hand view of what it is like to be part of Chinatown
Teen’Zine.

2:00 - 2:30 Q & A Session
Meet the teen members one-on-one over refreshments and snacks.

Seats are limited. Please call Jewel: 415.355.2888 for reservations
All programs at the Library are free. Sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

Bayview Teen events in the New Year

Happy New Year, y'all! So much is starting to go on here at the Bayview Library. Here's the update:

Thursdays 4:30-6:30: WritersCorps poetry workshop

Bring in your poems, rhymes, and whatnot, or come to see what it's all about. Introduce yourself to Beto, the poet who's leading the group.

Last Saturday of every month 2:00-3:00: Comics Club

Whether you like manga and anime, graphic novels, superheroes, strips, indie, or webcomics, this club could be the place for you. Come hang out for snacks and free stuff. January meets Sat. the 27th.

Art work due Feb. 9

Bring it to me at the library, or send me a message. We need your art to go on our walls here at the library. Deadline Feb. 9th for March exhibit.

Bayview Teen Advisory Council starting up

You care about the library and want to help make it better for youth! Maybe you need volunteer hours, experience for your resume or college app, or you want to make a difference in your community. Come see me at the library and pick up an application. We will start meeting monthly in Jan., time and date to be announced.

If you've read this far, send me (Wendy) a comment and win a prize!

New book reviews and a poem from the Chinatown crowd

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Reviewed by Ashley Tan

Can human beings really see God? Their Eyes Were Watching God is written by Zora Neale Hurston. It talks about an African-American woman named Janie. She married three different men: Logan, Joe and Tea Cake. Logan was already 60 years old, but Janie was only 17 when she married him. She believed that marriage does equal love. But she was totally wrong. Logan just forces her to work on the farm, but that's not the definition of love in Janie's mind. However, when Joe Starks appeared, she knew that Joe was going to give her a better life, and she might find love between them. With that romantic dream, Janie ran away with Joe to another place to begin their new life. But after a few years, Joe changed, he became a violent person, and treated Janie badly. Janie realized her dream was going to disappear sooner or later. After Joe died, Janie met Tea Cake, who was only 34, but Janie was 47 years old. They did not care about what the porch people said, they trusted their love could beat out the problems and gain their peaceful life. Tea Cake really loved Janie more than anyone else. He could do everything for Janie. Janie thought her love really came. But God is not always fair, Tea Cake was killed by Janie..... Janie wouldn't feel lonely because she knew that their love would last forever.She was looking at the horizon, just like her dream, never reached...


Strange tales of Liaozhai edited & translated by C C Low & Associates
Reviewd by Mona Zhao

I love reading, and when I say that I love reading, I mean I love words. My love for reading had been there ever since the day I learnt my name. I read a wide variety of books, from comic to reading the little quote on the calendar. I am an Asian-American; my desire for reading became a push of learning my culture and my language. In other words, I started to learn Chinese when I was nine because I saw a lot of Chinese books in the public library that I couldn’t read. By looking at the pictures I was able to predict parts of the story but that was it. But enough of how and why I learnt Chinese, I learnt Chinese, I am proud of myself, but most of all, I read a book in Chinese that changed my life!
The book that is an all time classic is called Strange tales of Liaozhai / [edited & translated by C C Low & Associates]. It is in both Chinese and English version, and it is available in the public library. But I have known this book ever since I was a kid, I just never took the time to read it and understand it. This book was written in China by a famous writer named Pu, SongLing in the 1600’s. This book he wrote was a collection of short stories. These short stories are mostly spine-tingling and mind-boggling stories of those days and nowadays. This book’s short stories can not only entertain you, but also it contains themes like relationships between people and it also reflects what sort of society of China was in that era. One of my favorite short stories in there is about a man who meets this beautiful girl, but she turns out to be a blood-sucking demon! Well, of course I wouldn’t tell you what happens next because you got to read it yourself!


The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey
Reviewed by: Huiting Gao

A retelling of the classic story "One Thousand and One Nights," or the "Arabian Nights," this book talks about how Shahrazad saved her own life by telling the king Shahrayar 1001 stories before going to bed. Telling a story every night but never finishing, she prolonged her life and ensured the safety of the kingdom's womanhood. Although everyone knows the story, the author added lovely twists that will leave your heart wanting more of Shahrayar and Shahrazad love. This is a very powerful novel, spoken in subtlety and gentleness, and the language woven in the cloth of love moves people in so many ways. From this book, I learned that no matter what kind of person you are, may you be a millionaire or a blind person, a deaf person or an artist, someone will always look up to you.


"Christmas Tree. San Francisco"
A Poem by Kristin Fong

It's cold.
It's raining.
It doesn't snow.
We live in San Francisco.
No I live in San Francisco.
Why doesn't it snow?
I see Christmas lights.
I see Christmas trees.
Are they real?
Are they fake?
Tourist flood the streets.
Of downtown.
They flood the streets.
Merry Christmas.
But wait, it isn't Christmas yet.

Bayview Comics & Manga club

The new Bayview manga club is meeting at the Bayview Library this Saturday Dec. 23 at 2 p.m. in the Meeting Room. Snacks and free manga prizes.

Enter your poem to win!

Do you live in the BayviewHunters Point, Visitacion Valley, Potrero, or Portola neighborhoods, otherwise known as San Francisco's District 10? Do you write poems? Do you dream of fame and a little fortune?

If you answered yes to all of these questions, enter your poems in the Poets Eleven District 10 poetry competition.

Fame? If you win, you read your poem as one of 3 featured readers at the Poets Eleven District 10 Event, to be held at the Bayview Branch Library on Wed. Dec. 13th from 6-7:30 pm. You also get published with winners from the other city districts.

A little fortune? You win $50, a plaque, plus a little something else from the city's very own Poet Laureate, Jack Hirschman.

Hurry, because the entry deadline is Wed. Dec. 6. Email your poems to: poets11@friendssfpl.org


Questions or more info? Contact Teen Librarian Wendy at 355-5757, wkramer@sfpl.org, or AIM screen name wde3de3.