Serving teens in MHLS libraries

We started a tradition two years ago of doing a “graduation ceremony” at our annual TAB Lock-in (all night event). Each graduate gets a group of other TAB members who dress the graduate in a newspaper gown and cap–we’ve had some pretty creative designs! It’s amazing what they can do with a stack of newspapers and a roll of scotch tape! Once the costumes are finished, everyone gets a kazoo to do Pomp and Circumstance while the grads march to receive their honors. The grads get a coupon to a local ice cream place and another prize (either a book or something else from our prize collection–we usually do this part around 3 or 4am, so my memory is a little fuzzy…). It’s one of the highlights of the Lock-in!

From Mary Ann Lewis, Young Adult Services Librarian, Associated Libraries of Monroe County

MK - You have to love the kazoo idea…