teen programming

Teen Tech mini grant apps due Jan 3

Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2011 by Faye Roberts, Reader

Teen Tech Week™ Mini Grant applications due Jan. 3

CHICAGO — Through funding from the Margaret A. Edwards Trust, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), will award up to 10 mini grants, consisting of $450 in cash and $50 worth of Teen Tech Week products, to YALSA members who create a reading program that incorporates technology for their Teen Tech Week celebrations. Teen Tech Week 2011 will be celebrated March 6-12 with a theme of Mix and Mash @ your library. Applications for the mini grants are due on Jan. 3.

Creating Community through Dynamic Teen Book Discussion Groups

Posted Monday, November 1, 2010 by Stephanie Race, Library Staff

Free Webinar

Monday, November 8, 2010, from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. CDT

Register here

How do teens learn the fine art of conversation?  A teen book group can be the perfect forum for creating meaningful dialogue, developing listen and communication skills, discussing existential issues common to all, and building community. Teens with good conversation skills have a great advantage when they enter the wider world. Find out how to help them develop communication and conversation skills -- while having fun!"

Presenter Ellen Snoeyenbos,YA librarian at the Duxbury Free Library, has held a weekly book discussion group for teens for the past six years. She views YA fiction as a perfect vehicle for exploring larger issues and perspectives with teens.

Participants are encouraged to view the following YouTube videos of teen book discussion groups led by Ellen Snoeyenbos prior to attending the webinar.

 

 

The Texas State Library is hosting this webinar and has invited people from anywhere in the country to join in. It is free, so take a look. Note that the time is CENTRAL and adjust for your location.

Programs that Will Get Teens Involved!

Posted Friday, September 24, 2010 by Stephanie Race, Library Staff

Programs that Will Get Teens Involved!

Free Webinar

Tuesday, October 5, 2010, from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. CDT

Register here

Anime Conventions and Creating Recorded Books are tried and true programs that teens love. Valerie Jensen of the Chambers County Library System will share logistics and best practices that will ensure the success of your programs - including how to involve teens in planning and hosting.

The Texas State Library is hosting this webinar and has invited people from anywhere in the country to join in. It is free, so take a look. Note that the time is CENTRAL and adjust for your location.

Call for Proposals - FL Library Association annual conference

Posted Monday, July 12, 2010 by Faye Roberts, Reader

Share your exciting program ideas for children and youth with other Florida librarians at the 2011 Florida Library Association conference.

 

FLA is accepting proposals for both preconference workshops and concurrent sessions at its 2011 Annual Conference.   Innovative ideas for delivering library services for children and teens are especially welcome.

 

The conference will be May 4-6, 2011 at the Doubletree in Orlando, Florida. Programs should reflect the conference theme “Open Libraries, Open Minds.”  The deadline to submit a proposal is August 24.

 

Special offer for YALSA programming books

Posted Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Anonymous, Library Staff

For a limited time only at the ALA Online Store, if you buy a copy of YALSA’s Cool Teen Programs for under $100, edited by Jenine Lillian, or Excellence in Library Services to Young Adults, 5th edition, edited by Amy Alessio, you’ll receive a free copy of Excellence in Library Services to Young Adults, 4th edition, edited by Renee Vaillancourt McGrath.

All three books offer the examples of high-quality programming, submitted by YALSA members and YA librarians and public and school libraries across the country. Both editions of Excellence were sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust and honored the best 25 programs for teens across the country. Cool Teen Programs highlights high-quality programs for libraries that cost less than $100, with tips for adjusting the programs to your budget needs (categories include no money, some money, and lots of money). Cool Teen Programs also includes helpful chapters on budgeting and marketing for youth librarians.

This offer is only available at the ALA Online Store (you won’t be able to take advantage of it at the ALA Store in DC), so be sure to order your copy of Excellence 5 or Cool Teen Programs today!

 

Info from the YALSA Blog

Successfully Developing Youth

Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by Anonymous, Library Staff

 

Earlier this month, I was given the opportunity to present in a poster session at the 2010 FLA Annual Conference titled “Successfully Developing Youth in Library Teen Advisory Boards”.  In the past, teen development strategies were defined by either prevention or rehabilitation. Recent scientific studies using MRI scans of the brain have shown that the brain continues to develop throughout their teen years. One of the last areas of the brain to develop includes planning, setting priorities, organizing thoughts, suppressing impulses, and weighing the consequences of one’s actions. This fact helps prove that youth behavior is not just about genes and hormones.The environment has a huge influence in the positive development of the teen and the library can have a part in this process.

 

The poster also gave the definition of a Teen Advisory Board and discussed the positive development strategies you can use in teen programming.

 

Library staff involved with teens should learn more about how the teen brain develops throughout the teen years. It will help them understand some of the behaviors seen in the library. Libraries should use positive youth developmental concepts when creating and implementing library teen programming.

 

Pasco County complete its 13th Annual Rockus Maximus: Teen Battle of the Bands!

Posted Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Anonymous, Library Staff

After months of hard work and a six-week online video campaign, the Pasco County Library System has once again completed its annual Rockus Maximus: Teen Battle of the Bands.  Rockus Maximus is an annual event wherein eight local bands with members ages 13-20 compete for fabulous prizes, both in an online environment and at a live concert.

This year's event involved six weeks of videos, each with a different theme such as "Library Warrior", that allowed all the entrant bands a chance to show off their personality and promote themselves (and the live concert) online.  Each band was competing to receive the most online votes from viewers, with the highest-ranked band at the end receiving a donated $500 gift card to Encore Music in New Port Richey.  All this promotion led up to the live concert event, Rockus Maximus, at Crews Lake Park in Shady Hills, which drew over 750 attendees, mostly teens and parents.  Each band had 25 minutes to play their best stuff live on stage to impress a panel of 17 judges from the local music scene and the libraries' teen groups.  The eventual champion was WD-HAN, an alternative rock band from Clearwater. (click below to read more)

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