Teen Topics

 December?  Is it time to collect those Christmas book wishes?  You bet! And email them to suzanne<at>dscl.org, please! 

DSCL Teen Advisory Group (TAG) Membership Form

Wish the activities for teens were cooler? Wish there was a writing group? Bored to tears after school? Want to get more involved? Please take a moment to fill out a short online form to get more information. 

What does TAG do?

How do you get involved?

Just fill in this form! Membership is open to anyone 13-18 years of age living in Hays County. If you are ready to jump in and get going, download a form

• Word (.doc)
• .PDF

return your form to the Young Adult Librarian at the DS library. If you would like to know more about TAG, please email SuzAnne at suzanne<at>dscl.org or call 512-858-7825.

Study Resources

Term papers can be a real headache. What to write about, how not to procrastinate... how do you get resources when you live in a small town. Sure you could drive to Austin, but with what car?

Here are some resources we thought might help. Most you know about, some you might not. If you can manage to surf away from YouTube, MySpace and Facebook for long enough....
I'm pretty sure those will be there when you get done writing the paper, or putting the effort into studying for that quiz you know is going to come next week...

Wikipedia.org - Yes, you can site those online articles in a paper. Those resources at the end of the article are really handy to look up books about your subject. Click here to go to the Wikipedia article about biblographic style.
This is a fantastic resource for journal articles. Most of them are scholarly articles, so it will take some effort to read them (even for scholars), but there are great gems of information and a wealth of bibliographies. Keep this on for college too. Oh yeah, you need a library card for this, too.		A unique video-on-demand service created by Recorded Books and your library. Anywhere you have a broadband internet connection you can have access to hundreds of DVD-quality videos covering a wide range of interests.  You need a library card for this.
Here is a great article on how to put together a study group. Seriously, this is the best way to get an A on that exam. It works in high school and it works in college. Since everyone thinks differently, sometimes another student can explain something to you in a way that clicks.

So You Don't Care About School...

We aren't going to lecture you. We'll show you the statistics.

Source: Money Income in the United States, U.S. Department of Commerce

Of these, subtract some for income tax and social security. It's more than you think.

Take a look in the paper to see what kind of house you can buy around here when you make $37,000/year.

Not convinced?

There are lots of resources to figure out what school and program might be most appropriate for you and your resources, needs and aspirations.

Yep, we can help.