Tonight we had the long-awaited Twilight showing.  I’d been working with the teen librarian a fair bit on getting ready for it – folding booklists, getting stuff together for the room, planning what she needed to have ready, etc.  We had to do a fair bit to get the room ready – rearranging furniture (she had already stolen couches from several parts of the library so there would be squashy places for teens to stretch out), getting the computer set up and the projector properly positioned and focused, popping popcorn and putting out pretzel sticks, printing up surveys and Twilight quizzes (yes, there were trivia quizzes) and putting out summer reading materials, setting up the book displays, all that jazz.

I wound up sitting at the entrance to sign kids in and give them raffle tickets as they arrived, then spent the first few minues of the movie checking the quizzes to see who had won our grand prize of a set of hardbound books.  The teen librarian also did a drawing for some other summer reading prize books, so quite a few kids walked away with prizes which is always good.

After the movie I helped the teen librarian clean up and move the furniture back.

Things I learned:

• Twilight is a powerful motivational force in getting teen girls to the library.
• Popcorn goes everywhere and is a mess to clean up.
• Library book buckets make adequate coolers for soft drinks when filled with ice.
• Couches are heavy and obnoxious to get through doors.
• Twilight does not stand up well to a second viewing, especially when one is sober.