Website of the Week

Internet Public Library for Teens

www.ipl.org/div/teen/

Teenspace includes all sorts of links to help you with homework, life and fun!

• A+ Writing
• Hot Topics
• Homework Help
• Graphic Novels Guide
• Poetry Wiki
• FAEQs
• Procrastinator
  
  
  

Your cat, dog, hamster, etc. could be famous!

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Here is another cute kitty. Her name is Stalker, she lives on a farm.

Send us your pet photos and we will showcase them on the blog.

email photos to OLPLYS@gmail.com

Pet Photo

Here is my cat. Her name is MooKitty because she was born on a dairy farm and she's black and white like a cow. She is 6 years old and loves to chase crumpled up paper. --Miss Sarah, Youth Services Librarian

Homework Helper: EBSCOhost

Every student has to write papers using a variety of sources. When you need magazine and/or newspaper articles, the Oak Lawn Public Library provides a handy "homework helper" -- EBSCOhost Web.

EBSCOhost is an electronic database that allows you to look up magazine and newspaper articles on a wide range of subjects. You can search by a particular magazine or newspaper. You can search within a particular range of years; for example, if you only want to know what was published on the subject between 2006 and 2008, you can limit your search to those years.

EBSCOhost can also give you the full text from reference books, original documents, biographies, and a wide range of health and technology journals. It even has a collection of photos, maps, and flags.

Where do I find it? EBSCOhost is only available at the library. You can access it from any of our database computers, or from any Internet station through our website. Just find the menu item "Library Resources," then "Indexes and Databases." Use the drop-down menu to find "Basic Reference Resources" or "All Indexes," then scroll down until you find "EBSCOhost MasterFILE Premier."

Your music, your personality

A new study claims that the kind of music you listen to is closely linked to your personality type. Listen to rap? You're more likely to have high self-esteem and be outgoing. Listen to rock or heavy metal, the study claims, and you might have low self-esteem and be lazy and shy. Read the full story and then tell us in the comments: Do you agree with the study? Do your musical tastes say something about how hard you work or how you feel about yourself? Or do you just like the way it sounds?

Upcoming Evening Programs

Open Mic Readings

Wednesday, September 17 @ 7pm

Local writers are invited to share original poetry and short stories. Five minute time limit.

The True Lives of Pirates

Tuesday, October 17 @ 7pm

A slide lecture packed with fascinating facts about where pirates come from, their living conditions on the high seas and the rules, rewards and punishments of a pirate's life.