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45952 Main St
Concrete, WA 98237
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*Tue - Thur: 10:00am - 7:00pm. *Fri- Sat: 10:00am 5:00pm
360-853-7716
Concrete, WA 98237
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Come hang out in our dedicated teen room!
While adults are able to browse and borrow books from our YA collection, this space is meant for teens and pre-teens aged 12-18 only to hangout in.
Teens, sit down, find a book, and stay a while to read it. Come draw on our table or on our chalk wall! Play chess, play a board game, use a computer, game on our Nintendo Switch or Playstation 3, or work on a project or your homework. Chat with our teen librarian and maybe learn a new skill or make new friends during a program. The possibilities are endless!
Here’s some things you can do in our teen room:
In order to make sure that the teen room is a fun yet safe space for teens, we do have some rules that must be followed while there. The library has an official Teen Room Policy, as well as a more detailed set of Teen Room Rules about how teens may use the space.
In addition to teens being required to follow our Teen Room Policy and Teen Room Rules, teens are also required to follow the library’s general Code of Conduct, the same way all other library users are.
A note for adults: the library has a policy of not confirming or denying if a teen is in the teen room or the library at large at any given time. This is for the safety of teens, as staff cannot determine – particularly over the phone – that the adult calling and looking for a specific teen is who they say they are or that they are safe for the teen to be around. If you are looking for a teen that you have legal guardianship over and think that they may be in the library, staff will be happy to inform anyone in the teen room to contact their parents or legal guardians and will allow them to use the staff phone if they do not possess their own cell phone to do so, but staff will not tell you which teens if any are in the building. We thank you for your understanding and support of our efforts to keep teens safe while here.
What are community agreements? Basically, they are things we all agree to do when we’re together during programs that will help us communicate clearly and respect each other as we work and play. These agreements were created by teens for teens and are up for discussion and modification if the group agrees it’s needed.
Interested in reviving a retired program?
Talk to the teen librarian or send her an email!
Volunteer @ The Library!
Earn community service credit and gain career skills while at the library!
In-person & remote options available!
Here’s what we need help with:
*book shelving
*tidying up
*plant watering
*pencil sharpening
*spine poetry
*making memes
*art/fan art
*putting up flyers
*sidewalk chalk art advertising
*blogging
*reviews & recommendations
*TEEN ADVISORY BOARD
*making reels/tik tok videos
*making buttons & stickers & bookmarks
*closed captioning YouTube videos
*helping us fix Alt Text on our website
*jokes/questions of the day
*reading buddies
*decorating
*take and make craft prep
Contact the teen librarian or ask staff for an application!
Thank you!
Join our Teen Advisory Board!
Teen Services are for teens, so teens should get their say!
By joining our TAB you can help decide what programs we do and when, and share your opinions on the teen space, new materials, the Summer Reading Program, and more!
Community Service credit is possible if you join TAB, so please contact the teen librarian for more info on that!
Have a cool idea for a program or craft? Interested in reading a specific book or audiobook? Want to see a movie we don’t have? Do you need to hear the latest BTS album but we don’t have it on CD yet? Dissatisfied with something we’ve done or how we’ve decorated the teen room? Love something we did and you want more? Let us know!
Help us fill this space! We’re looking for book, movie, TV show, game, etc reviews, your thoughts on the world around you, things you’ve recently learned…this is your space to share what’s on your mind!
Email teen librarian Chazlyn with your submission! Note that she may help you finesse it a little bit, and that’s okay!
eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, and more through Washington Anytime Library and Libby!
To use Libby download the app and input your library card number and pin number. Don’t know your pin number? Ask staff! You can also use Libby on a desktop computer by going to https://anytime.overdrive.com.
Download the Kanopy app on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, FireTV, or Samsung TVs or watch via web browser at the link above. Log-in for the first time with your library card and pin number and then make a username and password to log-in after that. Don’t know your pin number? Ask staff!
Log-in with your library card and pin number. Don’t know your pin number? Ask staff!
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I’m a social media nerd, so you’ll likely see me wandering around the building with my phone taking photos of everything or getting weird while filming a TikTok. Odds are I made that graphic, bookmark, poster, or video. I definitely sent that email. I hope you liked it! When I’m not working on marketing I’m probably getting ready for our next Teen Advisory Board meeting since I’m the teen librarian! I’m here to help design programs for teens, take care of the teen collection and space, and hang out with teens (and pre-teens!) I want to try to answer questions, recommend books, games, or movies, or just be a safe person to talk to!
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