Upcoming Events in January

Looking for something fun to do this month? Come to The Urbana Free Library and participate in one of our latest events for teens!

If you like GAMING…

On the 2^nd Saturday of most months (this month it’ll be the 14^th) you can join us for drop-in video gaming from 2-4:30pm in the Lewis Auditorium. You can bring your own games and consoles (no M rated games please), or use the library’s Wii, PS2, and N64 games and consoles. There will also be board gaming, cards, jenga, and free pizza!

If you prefer a wider variety of board games, the 2^nd Saturday Board Games event will also be held on the 14^th from 2-6pm in the MacFarlane-Hood Reading Room. This is a drop-in program for all ages, where you can play old classics like Go and Backgammon, as well as new favorites like deck-building Dominion and treasure-hunting Tobago. Never heard of ‘em? No problem. We’ll have staff and volunteers standing by to lead demonstrations of how to play.

P.S.-- The Library has a wide variety of board games available to check out at the 2^nd floor Reference Desk!

If you like ART…

On the 4^th Monday of most months (this month it’ll be on the 23^rd) you can join us for an hour of artistic creativity at the Art Day @ Your Library event, which takes place in the Lewis Auditorium from 3:30-4:30pm. This month we’ll be designing Teen Tech Week posters for the Teen Space. Teen Tech Week will run from March 4-10, 2012, and this year’s theme is “Geek Out At Your Library.” So come help us geek out by drawing all sorts of techy stuff, from old 8-tracks to iPods; vinyl records to CDs; VHS tapes & VCRs to Blu-ray players; floppy discs to flash drives; Atari’s to XBOX 360s; clunky computers monitors to sleek notebooks, and whatever else you can draw!