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Though we are growing a garden, which includes many different types of lovely flora and vegetable that we do try so hard to keep, there are other plants that we would happily uproot. These are of course the many types of weeds. Weeds, like aphids that we talked about in the last post, are a hazard and detriment to the garden, and are best removed as fast as possible. However, unlike aphids, weeds damage your garden in a different way. Instead of just basically using the plant as a breeding ground similar to the aphids, they instead grow along with them and sap important nutrients from your garden, which of course does not help your plants whatsoever in the long run. However unlike the aphids, weeds are generally easy to get rid of. You can just pluck them from the ground as they sprout up. However do try and be careful that what you actually pull is a weed and not your just sprouted plant for that would be embarrassing really really embarrassing. 

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Margaret Yankovich, Dorchester County Public Library.

This social media post is taken from the Cambridge, Massachusetts Library (https://www.facebook.com/CambridgePL)

1. this social media post appealed to me because I am interested in possibly starting a classic/independent film club at my library branch.

2. This post is an example of a successful use of social media to promote technology at the library because it shows how you can use your library card to access cool resources for watching film that you might not otherwise have.

3. Other libraries, like my own, could be inspired by this post to offer similar resources for their patrons, and to drum up interest on social media platforms such as Facebook.

[popcornnroses]

BOSTON SPRINGS A FETHIVAL 2017: ReelAbilities Boston, Day 5

BOSTON SPRINGS A FETHIVAL 2017: ReelAbilities Boston, Day 5 @ReelAbilities #BostonSpringsAFethival #eCinemaBoston @CambridgePL

ReelAbilities Boston, the metro area’s extension of the national ReelAbilities Film Festival, continues today and throughout this week at various venues in and around (and even slightly outside) the Hub.

Co-presented up our way by the Boston Jewish Film Festival, RAB showcases films that highlight people with and are made by people with disabilites. The lineup of films are generally films you may…

[cambridgeteenroom]

What I’m reading!  Holy cats, y’all -- be forewarned, there is a whole series of pandemic stories in the second half that give me chills.  But it IS a horror collection, after all.

And if you are about to say, “hey! why can’t I find that in e-books?” have I got exciting news for you -- I just figured this out myself.  We are now sharing e-books with partner libraries!  

You don’t need to get an additional card or anything.  If you are using Libby (and I mean, why wouldn’t you?), go into settings and select “add library.”  Then you can browse & check out from that library’s collection also.

Day...104? and still haven’t needed Amazon.  Power to the people.

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All Library Locations will close on Monday, January 20 in observance of Martin Luther King's Birthday.

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2019 book lists: Funny Books

*Honestly, the hardest category to find titles for (listen up, publishing world!) -- so we usually end up dipping into the adult collection.

Rock Manning Goes for Broke Charlie Jane Anders

Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse Shane Burcaw

The Spaceship Next Door Gene Doucette

Hot Dog Girl Jennifer Dugan

The Disasters M.K. England

How Not to Ask a Boy to Prom S.J. Goslee

My Plain Jane Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows

Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower Christian McKay Heidicker

Heretics Anonymous Katie Henry

Your Own Worst Enemy Gordon Jack

The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish Scott Koblish

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager Ben Phillipe

Virtually Yours Sarvenaz Tash

Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee Jeff Zentner

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Recap of 2019 book lists: Science Fiction/Fantasy

Throughout the year, your faithful Teen Room librarians put their mighty brains together and make book lists in the following categories: Science Fiction/Fantasy; Nonfiction; Funny; Romance; Mystery/Thriller and Comics.  Our genre lists are not currently displayed on the Cambridge Public Library website, so we are posting them here!

(You can still find our monthly Readalikes on the CPL website.)

Here are our picks for Science Fiction and Fantasy!  Because of 2018 overlap, some of these titles now have sequels, so don’t hold back.

Contagion  Erin Bowman

The Good Demon Jimmy Cajoleas

Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful Arwen Elys Dayton

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza Shaun David Hutchinson

Dread Nation: Rise Up Justina Ireland

Black Wings Beating Alex London

A Blade So Black L.L. McKinney

Light Years Kass Morgan

Dance of Thieves Mary E. Pearson

Heart of Iron Ashley Poston

Skyward Brandon Sanderson

Hull Metal Girls Emily Skrutskie

Once a King Erin Summerill

Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein Kiersten White

The Girl King Mimi Yu

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Maintenance takes up the majority of our garden working time, and of that, pruning is the most crucial for plant health. By cutting away dead or dying leaves, branches, or even entire plants, we allow 100% of the water and nutrition from the soil to go into healthy, producing plants, not being siphoned off. We are very careful while timing pruning - wait too long and healthy plants could die, trim too soon, and you’ve just killed perfectly good plants. The same is true for the amount/location to clip. We try to keep out clippers sharp and clean, so that they make a nice, clean cut withe no tearing, which can damage plants and cause rot. In general, we are either pruning, or harvesting every few days, at least once a week, often more, because, despite our small space, we have many different varieties of crops growing. 

[cambridgeteenroom]

When tending to your garden, you find out fast how good your harvesting skills are - especially if you harvest basil. We harvest the basil on a weekly basis and harvest the other plant once in a blue moon. But all jokes aside, it is only after harvesting basil that you realize just how fast it can grow back and with us having multiple basil plants, we often find ourselves harvesting the plant fairly often, more than the others, which if you’re gardening for the first time might drive you insane just a wee bit. - J

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Over the past three weeks my coworkers and I have been working on the continued growth and the maintenance of the Garden Project. A question you might be asking (amongst several others) is what exactly is the garden project and  what  does it  have  to  do  with  a  Public  Library. Well, to  answer those  two  very  specific  questions;  the  Garden  project  is  a  collaboration with a few staff members at the Cambridge Public Library and the Biology Classes from the well known High school in our area, Cambridge Rindge and Latin. During this collaboration we are trusted to help take care of a small garden bed located near Rindge and Latin’s field house, along with several other plants marked in orange Home Depot buckets. The beds and buckets contain several types of plants and vegetables. Examples  are  the swiss  chard, watermelon,  radishes, beets,  a  sunflower, and  several  types  of  beans. Over the course of  the Summer we hope not to only plant more plants but also harvest plants that have already been planted in our garden space. Though our Ambitions are big and our garden is tiny, we hope that throughout the summer we shall lay the seeds (Pun intended) for more plants to come, and maybe an expansion of a second garden bed.    

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Get ready for our awesome, exciting, swoony author event!

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Queer Cartoons in the Teen Room tomorrow afternoon!

Saturday, April 6 1:00PM

Come hang out for an afternoon of cartoons featuring LGBTQIA+ characters!  In partnership with Arlington Public Library’s Drag Prom on Saturday, April 27.

Main Library Teen Room 449 Broadway Cambridge

And here is the list Arlington’s Drag Prom workshops!

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Saturday Afternoon Queer Cartoons

Saturday, April 6 1:00PM

Come hang out for an afternoon of cartoons featuring LGBTQIA+ characters!  In partnership with Arlington Public Library's Drag Prom on Saturday, April 27.

Main Library Teen Room 449 Broadway Cambridge

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Adulting 101, all about the money, starts in one week!  Bring your questions, your hopes, your fears.  

One thing I’ve figured out for sure in my research to get ready for this is that we have hangups around just talking about money.  So this is a great opportunity!

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Brought to you by the Teen Advisory Board!  Feeling overloaded by school, the news, winter blues?  Come by the library next week for some down time.