Belleville Library Blog

april 12, 2 pm - teddy bear tea party
april 16, 11 am - children’s concert (by JP!)
april 18, 7:30 pm - taste of belleville

these are just 3 of many events we are hosting…

for those of you voters in nj, good news. if you aren’t registered to a party, you can still vote in the upcoming “super tuesday” primary on Feb 5th. here’s the link

also, we are going to start open mics. i’ll post the dates up soon.

A Belleville-ite asked me why the library had no facebook. So I made one.

Since it’s a facebook for an organization and not a person, I can’t add anyone. That means I need YOU to add your facebook to ours!

LINK!

shoot me an email if you tried and CAN’T get it to work, because I have no way of testing it. thanks. —-> my email is

hey bloggers

We had a goal: to reach 100 belleville myspacers by Jan 1st. Well, today is January 16th and we have 118 friends! Our new goal is to reach 150 belleville myspacers by March 17th. You can help by adding yourself: myspace.com/bellepl

We wanted to add belleville people, basically so we could post bulletins and let belleville residents know what’s going on at the library. By ‘we’, I mean me (JP) and pretty much every staff member who’s younger than me: Danielle, Omair, Mike “meatzo”, Phill…we all share!

Also, there’s a job open here at the library if you are interested: teen librarian

talk to you bloggers soon…

hey bloggers

6) happy christmas (25th), kwanza (26th), and then new years (1st!).

Hi bloggers, here’s a few updates:

Thanks to everybody who joined us at the library booth during “Just A Party” last week. It was a really good time for everyone involved. I uploaded a picture taken by library board member Tom McCrohan and i’ll have a whole gallery up in a few days’ time.

The Teen room AND the Children’s room now have a Wii. Email me your Wii number and i’ll add you and email you back with BOTH of our numbers. Then we can trade Miis!

Have you guys seen the Q&ANJ commercial that was shown during the ‘07 MTV music awards? It is, surprisingly, entertaining. Usually these types of videos are a bit stale. This video is a bit stale, our video response to it is less stale.

Speaking of videos, the state library is holding a contest. Read more about it at www.njlibraries.org and click on the contest link. Ryan, i’m looking in your direction. I hope some Belleville people enter, and I am going to make sure that our community has a presence during the contest voting period!

thanks bloggers! - JP

Hi bloggers,

Our library purchased a Wii, and we would like to be your Wii friend.

Our Wii number is 1620 2677 3539 1955. Please email me your Wii number, so I can add you back. Remember, we can’t communicate via the Wii unless we both add each other!

We will be purchasing a second Wii for our Teen room, so make sure to check back so you can add the Teen Room as well!

And don’t forget to come out to Just A Party on Sep 13th to check out the Belleville Public Library table: We will have two large (free!) video gaming stations for Guitar Hero and Wii Sports, as well as on-the-spot library card sign ups, giveaways, and most importantly, Me!

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