Saturday, July 26, 2008

Ring's Runescape Winners!



Congratulations to Ring's two Runescape Challenge Winners! We are so proud of our teens, "FantasyX78" and "BridgeBoy7."

Thank you for helping HPL stomp the county competition.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Employee of Recognition...


Pete Vargas, Congratulations! You're the fastest shelver in town! But really, we appreciate your A+ attitude, helpful customer service, and Spanish speaking abilities!

Ring's Star Summer Readers!


331 kids and teens have completed the Summer Reading Program at Ring!


Saturday, June 21, 2008

The moment you've all been waiting for...




Movie showings at Ring Neighborhood Library are the awesomest of them all! With BIG screen viewing, surround sound, and the latest movies HPL has to offer these programs are the Slamma-Damma-Ding-Dong!

T Shirt Screen Printing





Screenprinting by Danny Russo was a very interesting program for our teens!

"Evidence of the early techniques of printing were found in the 4th Century BC in India. In 300 AD, printing blocks were found in Egyptian burial grounds and Pre-Colombian printed textiles were found in Peru and Mexico. The first form of screen-printing was seen done by the Polynesian Island natives. They would cut designs into banana leaves and forced dye or ink through the leaf openings. In 960 —1280 AD in the Sung Dynasty, Japanese people would hold the pieces of the stencils together by gluing human hair to the stencil. The first item to be made in the United States using the screen printing process was a felt banner in 1910. Andy Warhol began to use screen-printing to duplicate iconography in the late 20th century. He used a picture of Marilyn Monroe from 1967 and put different color in the highlights of her face, gave the background a red-ish color, tinted her hair a blue and mustard color and her earrings were pink. During WWI, screen-printing became a significant part of the industry and high quality signs were made in a short amount of time. An example of this was the "Uncle Sam" posters for recruiting men to the army." http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ahudson/hudson.wbp/html/SPpaper.html


Friday, June 13, 2008


A photo from Ring's successful El dia program!!

Thursday, March 6, 2008

50 + Computer Club

Ring facilitated a very successful 50 + computer club session on April 1st. A record turnout of seven people attended and users learned how to conduct effective searches using Google.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Teen Talk 2008

Teen Tech Week is March 2-8! Thank goodness TAKS testing will be over on Tuesday, so we can let out a little steam and create our own Teen Talk website. Three events are planned:
  • how to create a website, using freewebs.com
  • what is Podcasting by the way? And how do you develop one?
  • fun with YouTube.com on the last day
More news soon from the YA "corner" at Ring,
Kathy

Tuesday, February 12, 2008


Reading time at Ring Library...