Programs for Kids & Teens Great Ideas for Programming for Kids &
Teens Teen Advisory Group Allows teens to be involved with and
have a voice in their library. Encourages communication between
teens and librarians, and allows teens to provide input as to
what they'd like to see in the way of programming, events, or
collection additions in the library that they frequently use.
Teen Advisory Group Tips Go to the teens with a passive program
to introduce the public library in a non-threatening manner. I
go to the high school once or twice a month and set up a table
outside the cafeteria during the lunch hour. On the table I have
information about programs, discarded books that the teens can
take for their mandatory 20-minutes of reading in class, and
sometimes a guessing game with a ballot box, and often some hard
candies. It was scary to do at first, but the teens responded
really well, and now they come to the table to ask what is going
on. From there, we were able to form a relationship with the
teens -- and h