TeenTober merges YALSA’s successful and long-standing Teen Tech Week™
and Teen Read Week™ initiatives into one program to celebrate teen
services in libraries. We thought this was a perfect time to announce the
winner of our first-ever Teen Sticker Design Contest!
Discover books about visual art, music, drama or theater, dance, and poetry.
This challenge is for ALL AGES and will run until October 31, 2025.
Test out a potential new hobby easily and without investing in equipment
with one of the library's 15 "Try It Yourself" kits. These kits are funded by
donations to the library's year-end campaign!
Join us for a Scandinavian music performance by Project: Constellation.
This program was made possible with Arts & Cultural Heritage Funds
from Minnesota's Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment.
Get to Know Your Library Staff
Dezra Rittmann: Human Resources Generalist
Celebrating 20 Years with Great River Regional Library!
How did you start your career with GRRL?
My son, Oliver, and I would attend Storytime at the old downtown location in St. Cloud. We spent a lot of time there when he was little. When he started preschool, I explored working there. I started as a Library Aide, and fell in love. Through the years, I have been a Library Aide, Circulation Assistant 1, a Patron Services Associate, and currently HR Generalist extraordinaire.
What book or movie are you currently recommending?
I just saw Hamilton on the big screen, it was incredible. I love graphic novels. I just finished reading The Flip Side by Jason Walz. Spooky but good. One of my very favorite books of all time is a children's book titled Sweety by Andrea Zuill. It's about the cutest naked mole rat ever. Everyone should read it!
What's a fun fact about you?
I really love the Muppets, especially Kermit the Frog—kind of a super fan.
After losing his best friend to cancer, grieving Theo navigates a haunting alternate reality that embodies his depression, where he faces a shape-shifting monster and teams up with a mysterious girl to