Teen programming presents many difficulties for teen librarians, teachers and school librarians. What will grab their interest? How do we engage them in a learning activity? What is fun and also inspires them to stretch their knowledge boundaries? How do we entice them into the library and its many services if they aren't readers? These are just a few of the relentless questions and problems that we face when serving teens. They are not children and yet they are not yet adults. They need to be guided while also having opportunities for independent exploration. Teens desperately want to learn but they want learning to be disguised as constant "fun."
Ultimately, I believe the key question for librarians serving teens is:
How do we help teens become lifelong learners and library patrons?
There are many avenues to address this query. One of which is through engaging, interactive and educational programming. In this blog I will share ideas for teen programming that works. I'll provide resources and program descriptions to make implementation easy. As we all know teen librarians face many challenges. Programs have to be exciting to draw in the teens, there is usually little funding for these extraordinary programs and planning/preparation time is at a premium. A teen programming blog will be a forum to help each other with developing appealing programs in a timely manner for our teens.
Let's get started!
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