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  • Competition, Selector, Simon

    You’re all winners, really

    18.08.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

    We’ve some winners for a few recent competitions we ran. Hannah wins a copy of Sam Stern’s Cooking Up A Storm for her recipe;

    Completely Unspecified Chocolate Chip Pancakes
    Chocolate Chips, Milk, Baking Powder, Eggs (Remove shells if you feel that it is a good idea), Anchovies (No, that’s not a typo.), Salt, Sugar, Butter, Flour

    Put as much as you want of basically everything in a bowl. The anchovies add a somewhat fishy quality to the mixture, so just remember that. Cook somehow. Don’t ask me how.
    Failing that, just use the leftover milk and get the weetbix, sugar and the unlabelled can out of the pantry (Make sure it is fruit or something pleasantish before you slop it on your weetbix) and have that instead. Probably more nutritious at the very least.

    Sounds delicious, doesn’t it?

    And Melissa and Rachel have both won a library DVD voucher for completing our recent Magazine Selector. I will post them out sometime later! I promise!


  • Selector, Simon

    Selector : Magazine

    30.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    We’re still doing the Selector : Magazine dealie, which means you get to have some say in the magazines the YA area has for borrowing. In fact, you can vote on it and you may win something. It’s like democracy with bribes! There’s about a week left.


  • Library Serf, Selector

    More Magazines

    16.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    As we reported last week, we’re after more magazines for the YA magazine collection, and we’d like you to choose which (make sure you vote – you can do this more than once (every day even) and you might win something, so what the hey).

    In order to help you make your choice, and to keep you up with the play on what we’ve got, here’s what the collection currently consists of:

    Sports

    - Transworld Skateboarding - international skateboarding news and tips etc. (website)
    - New Zealand Skateboarder
    - Kiwi Surf Magazine - (website)
    - Curl: Girls’ Lifestyle Magazine - surfing and stuff. (website)

    Virtual Sports

    - Playstation 2 (website)
    - 360 XBox (website)
    - White Dwarf (website)

    Girls’, Fashion & Gossip

    - Creme (website)
    - Dolly (website)
    - Girlfriend (website)
    - Seventeen (website)
    - Sugar (website)
    - Teen Vogue (website)

    For Amusement

    - Mad XL (website)
    - Simpsons Magazines

    So, what’s lacking? Let us know what you’d recommend and have a good last few days of holiday.

    (Young Adult magazines are free to borrow for one week on a Young Adult card – they’re also free to reserve (on a YA card).)


  • Selector, Simon

    Selector : Magazine

    09.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    selectoraWe’ve culled a couple of magazines in the YA area and now we’re left with a few empty shelves. There are many, many magazines and periodicals in the adult collection that could be added to the YA collection – which would mean they’d be free for YA card holders (and free to reserve). But which magazines? Will you help us decide? The one that gets the most votes in the next four weeks will be added (on trial) to the YA collection.

    Votes must be in before the 6th of August.

    We’re also interested in any other magazines you think we should get.

    Below is a brief description of the magazines to choose from, along with a voting form. You can vote once per day (so you could vote for the same magazine each day if you like). Each vote will put you in the draw for a library DVD voucher. You must be a WCL cardholder to be eligible to vote, and you must be between 13 and 18.

    Read more…


  • Grimm, Selector

    Update on your Favourite Books

    12.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    Well, nobody said it would be easy.

    Calling all readers who haven’t yet let us know what your favourite books are! Visit this post here and quickly tell us your top three (or more if you want).

    So far we’ve had heaps of responses that are many and varied – so varied in fact that I now want more! Lots more! In the mean time: you like books by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes to Gabrielle Zevin, About a Boy to the Vampire Beach series, Emma to Graceling. Old hat, new hat… it’s almost all there.

    The grand master list of favourite things will be published very soon, with a bang rather than a whimper.

    BTW: have you ever come across a book that you thought the library should buy? If you ever do, you can make a suggestion to buy online – just go to this page.

    Have a good weekend!


  • Grimm, Selector

    Your fa-vou-rite things

    27.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    Hello! If you haven’t checked in with us for a few days you might not know that we want to know what your favourite books are: we’re compiling a list of your favourite stuff (it might be books or authors – as yet undecided).

    This post here has the form you can fill in: tell us your top three, then there’s space to add as many others as you want. We’ll keep collating until a yet to be specified date, when we’ll produce the list with a suitable drum roll.

    Thanks to those who have let us know already, and keep reading.


  • Selector, Simon, Top 10

    Select your Top 10. Or top three, really, but you know

    21.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    selectorabOh hi. We would like to know your favourite books, so we can create a Top 10 list of our readers’ choices. Should you get trapped on a deserted island, which three (or more) books would you take with you? They can be any book, but ideally it should be for teens.

    Fill in the form below (you don’t need to complete your details, but you probably should), and depending on the results we will sort out a list sometime after Queen’s Birthday weekend.

    [Update: thanks for filling in the form if you did - it was interesting hearing what you like to read. We might well be asking you similarly tough questions in future.]


  • Competition, Grimm, Selector

    Selector: and the winner was

    28.04.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

    selector illustrationInside Girl, by J Minter. And the crowd goes wild (except for the people who were in the Morganville camp – who knows, the library may end up investing in this series too in the future).

    Inside Girl

    Thanks for playing. We’ll draw one lucky Inside Girl supporter to be first in the queue for when the series arrives!

    Postscript: message from Paula the Selector – “think I might order the vampires as well, they seem [...] fun!” So there you go.


  • Competition, Grimm, Selector

    Selector: the final countdown

    21.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    selector illustrationIt’s Inside Girl versus Morganville Vampires! What to pick, what to pick?

    Do Texan vampires have a show at defeating Flan Flood? Will the fangs come out, and if they do will the vampires cope?

    So, readers, you get to choose which series the library will purchase: it’s the vampires whose peaceful towny existence is disrupted by the arrival of the evil Bishop versus a rich kid who used to attend an exclusive academy but decides to rub elbows with students at a typical high school (proper descriptions are here).

    Morganville Vampires        Inside Girl

    You’ve got until next Tuesday to decide: this is the final round, so get voting! One lucky voter will get the chance to be first in the queue for the winning literary treasure.

    ps congratulations to Rachel for picking up the voucher for 2 free DVD rentals.


  • Competition, Library Serf, Selector

    Selector: round two: vote

    17.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    Here’s the line up for round two: don’t forget to vote (descriptions here). One lucky round two voter will win a voucher for two free DVDs (rental value of $8!!) – this should make the last days of holidays more interesting.

    Drama Club Queen Geek Social Club Inside Girl Morganville Vampires  Vampire Kisses

    What’s Selector? Read this for more.

    selector illustration


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