{"id":520,"date":"2007-02-05T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2007-02-05T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T14:51:04","slug":"round-up-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2007\/02\/05\/round-up-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Round-Up Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maplewood Library, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/library-stories-round-up\/\">I previously mentioned<\/a> were planning on closing their doors immediately after school to cut back on &#8220;teen rowdiness&#8221;, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1010wins.com\/pages\/184561.php?contentType=4&#038;contentId=289591\">now decided to remain open<\/a>, after a unanimous decision by the board of trustees just one day before the first closure was to take place.<\/p>\n<p>Teens are a valuable part of a community, and of the library that serves it.  Granted, they <i>can<\/i> be rowdy and tough to manage.  I personally once had to break up a fight between two teenage girls right in front of the library, so I know how it can go, but I think the answer, rather than to lock them out, is to bring them in and to give them some outlet for their energies.  The Lester Public Library in Wisconsin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htrnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070204\/MAN0101\/702040385\/1984\">created a Teen Advisory Board<\/a> whose job it is to do just that: arrange events for teens, by teens.  I understand that not every library is going to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/is-teen-reading-an-oxymoron\/\">librarian interested in playing DDR<\/a>, or even having video games inside the library (feelings definately remained mixed on that one among professionals), but that doesn&#8217;t mean that there shouldn&#8217;t be something available, inside the library, to engage teens on a level they&#8217;re interested in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maplewood Library, who I previously mentioned were planning on closing their doors immediately after school to cut back on &#8220;teen rowdiness&#8221;, has now decided to remain open, after a unanimous decision by the board of trustees just one day before the first closure was to take place. Teens are a valuable part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}