Twilight Launch Party

Big Election Coming Up!

Attention! Did you know there's an important election coming up in February? Well, there is, with the primaries for Illinois Governor as the "flagship" races. Make sure you're registered to vote by coming to the library Saturday, December 5th from 1-3 or Sunday December 6th from 1-5. Bring two pieces of identification, one with your current address, and the folks from the Oak Park/River Forest League of Women Voters will take care of you. Hurry, the deadline to register is approaching fast!

Anime Critics Holiday Party and Stuff Swap

BE THERE on December 17, at 4 p.m. in the Austin room.

What's old is new again. Bring us your anime, your manga, your video games... you can swap with other members and enjoy holiday refreshments.


Registration: 11/16/2009 - 12/17/2009

Intended for ages 12 and up.

Neil Gaiman's Twitter Story!

Neil Gaiman recently collaborated on a Twitter story with his fans. You can read the completed story here.

Onemanga.com

Read free manga online at onemanga.com

Distant Worlds : Final Fantasy Concert

Hello everyone, are you a fan of the Final Fantasy Games ? Well say no more , starting next month on Dec. 12th, 2009 the Distant Worlds Final Fantasy Concert will be playing here in Chicago at the Rosemont Theatre in Rosemont,IL. One of our very own pager's in Youth Services is going to the concert for the first time and will write a blog about it and have videos and pictures up after the concert. This is the link of the Final Fantasy Concert giving you more details on what Final Fantasy songs are going to be played.

Twilight Party

Vampires vs. Werewolves Smackdown. Who will win, the vampires or the werewolves? It really doesn't matter, as we will have lots of fun anyway celebrating the release of the new Twilight film, New Moon.

Join us for a Forest Park Public Library Twilight extravaganza on Thursday, November 19, at 7 p.m. We will do Twilight-inspired activities, crafts, and eat bloody (just kidding) snacks worthy of vampire or werewolf lovers. Four passes to New Moon will be raffled off!

Sign up today to reserve your place. Intended for ages 12 and up.

A New Kind of Search Engine!

Wolfram Alpha is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a regular search engine might. It was announced in March 2009 by Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. It will graph your algebraic and calculus equations. Check your answers! Sports, the weather, people, science, and much more can be found with this cool search engine.

National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo, is a here-goes-nothing approach to novel writing that takes place in November. Registered participants begin on November 1, with the goal of producing a 50,000-word novel by the end of the month. Participants log on to nanowrimo.org and upload daily word counts. Quantity is more important than quality! Editing and rewriting can be done later. The goal is to get the novel all down on paper by November 30. This sink-or-swim approach forces writers to take a risk and start writing. Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, wrote the draft for her book as part of NaNoWriMo.

Teen Tech Workshop: Cyberbullying

What can you do to protect yourself?

Find out at this Teen Tech Workshop. On Monday, November 9, at 4 p.m., learn from an expert on how you can protect yourself.

Please reserve your space by signing up online at our site or call the Youth Service Desk: 708-366-7171.

Cosplayers Ball