With the holiday season kicking off in just a few short days, we’re ready to announce that we have a great gift giving event of our own coming up in December.  In place of reading and discussing a book, we’ll be hosting our 2nd Annual White Elephant Holiday Book Swap!

“What is a White Elephant Book Swap?”, you might ask.  I’d say it’s part gift giving and part receiving with the possibility of swapping thrown in to magnify the fun.  If you’ve seen the episode of the Office in which Michael coerces the Dunder Mifflin crew into celebrating Christmas with a Yankee Swap, then you know what I’m talking about.  If not, your instructions for the evening are as follows:

Please bring a wrapped book, which can be selected from your own collection, for giving.  Place your gift book in the designated pile upon arrival.  Numbers will be drawn to determine the order in which everyone unwraps.  When your turn comes along, select a book from the pile and open it.  You can choose to keep your book, or swap with anyone who has already opened theirs.  Keep in mind, your selection is not safe until the game is over and done with.  The last person to unwrap has the final pick of the night - a covetable spot for sure.  You can see a list of titles that were brought to the table at last year’s swap here.

We hope you can join in the swap at 8pm on Tuesday, December 16 at our trusty meeting place, Molly Malone’s (The Snug) in Forest Park.  We may even come bearing goodies to share, as everyone at genre X headquarters is a little gaga for holiday cheer.  Hope to see you there! - viagra cialis levitra

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Although I’m sad to say it’s come and gone, I’m very happy to report that Hi-Lo Tech Night, genre X’s first after hours event for twenties and thirties, was a smashing success! We couldn’t have been more thrilled to welcome almost 60 people into the library for what turned out to be a very enjoyable evening of non-stop gaming.

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Thanks also to our DJs for your time and tunes, to our trusty Maintenance Manager, Rory O’Neill, for all of your help with set up, to our Library Director, Dee Brennan, and the Board of Trustees for your support, to Chicago Reader’s Free Shit blog for your help in getting the word out, to our tech helpers, Bradley “I Married a Librarian” Brooks and Ian “IT Guy” Nosek (pictured above), as well as Eric “Old Scratch” Battaglia (too busy working to be caught playing), and to Megan Owdom-Weitz for designing and lovingly hand screening each of our fantastic posters.

We have a limited number of event posters left - drop us a line at genre-x@oppl.com for more info.  More photos from the evening can be found here. We hope you had as good a time as we did, and look forward to seeing you at another great genre X program soon!

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The countdown’s on.  Only two days left until we launch our first genre X after hours library program.  As you know, we’ve chosen to build an evening of food and fun around the theme of Hi and Lo Tech gaming.  But if you’re still wondering what your gaming options are for this weekend’s event, here is a rundown of what we’ll be offering:

Hi-Tech - We will be offering open play for Mario Kart and Guitar Hero from 7-9.  At 9pm we will begin a Mario Kart tourney.  Once that is over we will resume open play, including more opportunity for some seriously big screen Guitar Hero action.

Lo-Tech - Wii’s not your thing?  No problem.  We will have a variety of board games on hand for you to play throughout the evening (see list below) so you can feel free to grab a friend and a board to start up the game of your choice at any point.  We’ll also have a Scrabble tournament beginning at 8pm for those who take their board games a little more seriously.

A sampling of the other board games we will have on deck:

• Apples to Apples
• Balderdash
• Battleship
• Clue
• Cranium
• Imaginiff
• Jenga
• Monopoly
• Trivial Pursuit
• Yahtzee

So come on out, grab some friends, and enjoy an evening of games & music, food & drink in our lovely library.  We’d love to see you there; viagra purchase.

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I have asked our three DJs to offer up a short description of you can expect to hear from them this Saturday.Here is what we’ve got:

DJ Jump Cut (aka Alan Jacobson): ” Former college DJ, music critic, and current guy-brarian, DJ Jump Cut has spun live at Club Foot, Delilah’s, Darkroom, Danny’s, and others and is known to craft a set easy on the ears, with a wild and fine collection of genre and era jumping musics.”

DJ Ideamite (aka Glenn Russell): “DJ ideamite will spin the lo Tech circuit blowing electronic sounds of yesteryear into the new hi Tech breaker blowing electronica of tomorrow.”

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Come out and enjoy some great music while munching on some good food and drink in our library’s Art Gallery!

Where to buy viagra online: i am so excited to show off our fantastic poster art, designed by one of our regular genre Xers, Megan Owdom-Weitz. What could possibly be a more fitting way to visually represent the Hi-Lo Tech bond than dinos and robots? If you love the design as much as we do, Megan will also be screenprinting a limited number to sell the night of the event as well.