2. www.connectingya.com Connecting Young Adults and Libraries Patrick Jones http://www.connectingya.com Zollo, Peter. Wise Up to Teens. 2 nd Edition. New Strategist Press, 1999.

3. www.connectingya.com Connecting Young Adults and Libraries Patrick Jones http://www.connectingya.com THE ELEMENTS OF SUCCCESS Asking why

4. www.connectingya.com Connecting Young Adults and Libraries Patrick Jones http://www.connectingya.com Identify the elements of success: create for your community, don’t just copy. Bridges not barriers Everything to scale

5. www.connectingya.com Everything to scale

6. www.connectingya.com Program This!

7. www.connectingya.com WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY: a how-to-do-it workshop “ But I put out the flyer ” - Stock excuse number #1 on why a program or service didn’t meet expectations.

8. www.connectingya.com WHAT is programming for teens? Staff intensive: Involve a hired presenter: Use a teen presenter with knowledge or expertise Be totally teen planned, implemented and evaluated. Be highly interactive on the teens own time and always available Be almost spontaneous

9. www.connectingya.com WHO is the audience and what are their needs Physical activity: Competence and Achievement: Self-Definition: Creative Expression: Positive Social Interaction with Peers and Adults Structure and Clear Limits Meaningful Participation

10. www.connectingya.com What types of programs appeal to teens? Cultural - Informational – Educational Recreational

11. www.connectingya.com What are some teen program staples? Craft programs Book Discussion Groups Teen Read Week Summer Reading Programs for Teens Writing groups and contests Teens as performers

12. www.connectingya.com What teens are you trying to reach with programs? 12-13-they are interested in being teenagers, in every possible way. 14-15-able to remember topics and discussions from one month to the next, can express their emotions thru writing or acting, generally are not getting regular opportunity to be creative, can assist with crafts as well as participate. 16-17-Able to give opinions while taking multiple factors into consideration, looking for practical applications of information, have developed niche interests.

13. www.connectingya.com HOW do you plan teen programming? Ideas Ask and answer the 5Ws Implementation Evaluation Education

14. www.connectingya.com 5W 1H WHAT IS THE PROGRAM: (title / description / objectives) WHO IS THE AUDIENCE: (age, gender, target schools) WHEN/WHERE WILL IT TAKE PLACE: (date, time, and location) WHY WILL IT SUCCEED: (partnerships, youth involvement, development needs) HOW WILL BE PROMOTED

15. www.connectingya.com What are examples of successful teen programs?

16. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Teen drama club over the summer on weekly basis. Picked and then presented a play. Now, monthly basis.

17. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Serve parenting and pregnant teens developed program where students would read stories to kindergartners. Also do programming around the holidays

18. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Card and comic book club on Saturday afternoons. Kids trade with each other and with library. Play card games such as magic the gathering. Door prizes and refreshments.

19. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Contest to bulletin board: librarians gave a theme and students created the artwork.

20. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE LSTA grant buy dig cameras; grades 4 – 8; set up eye-spy teams with local historians; took photos of historic sites: zoom in, wrote clues; on the web.

21. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Summer programs for teens - craft, intellectual/educational, and FUN: (mystery kit): no young children allowed. Using mehndi: body painting: temp tattoos. Seeing kids normally not library users: primary pr is through word of mouth. Unique programs: mud painting, tie dye, etc.

22. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE During summer, using Gates computers. Offered training beyond use of the Internet to use programs loaded on computers. Instruction in use: classes they could sign-up.

23. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE T-shirt decoration: teens create their own t- shirts to wear when they volunteer.

24. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Contacted by historical society to do a program with an inner city branch. Activities, and also performer coming in costume. Tie in with Ohio history learning requirement.

25. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Program in schools a brown bag lunch program with middle school. Visiting twice a month, book discussion group over lunch. Library buys paperbacks for students. Librarian presented an award to teacher who organized project.

26. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Poster designing contest for the summer reading program theme. Anime style was the winner: got used on the public relations materials. Teen was then hired to work at branch.

27. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE For Teen Read Week, photographer took pix of teens in various locations which were then used in libraries with slogans on them.

28. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Teen Arcade in Gates training room

29. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Every time a teen attends a program or volunteers, ask them to give email address and get invites to school programs.

30. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Last September turned volunteens in puppet performing troupe (puppet teens). Help prepare scripts, make props, develop scenery, and perform.

31. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Library has developed outreach programs with a wide range of agencies which also serve teens, such as the workforce center, a program for teen mothers (New Beginnings), GED/ESL classes, key contacts in the mental health community, Juvenile Detention Center including donations of materials, and educational community/alternative high school

32. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE One branch worked with a nearby Catholic school which assigns student to read genre fiction. Library helped develop list and promoted titles with series of booktalks at the school.

33. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE. Although at the low end of young adult age range, library visits every 5th grade class during the fall to promote children’s book week with 30 minute presentations about the library, including booktalks. Teachers like the visits with normally begin with a letter to principal, then a follow-up phone call to set schedule with secretary or librarian

34. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE LIBRA teens only summer reading program. Teens complete a reading log, book review, and/or trivia fun sheets, (reading, write, and solve) Have to be going into 5 th grade or up (age 11).Primary participants are ages 11 - 15, both genders.

35. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Developed a Mother and daughter book club. Program recognizes fact found in many suburban library systems that parents must be involved or be supportive of teen programs if they are to provide transportation.

36. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE. Poetry contest in the spring. YAs could submit two poems. Capped off by an open mike night to announce winners (Friends group supply prizes). Over 70 Yas attended last event. Success due to teachers getting involved and interested. Also lead to the publication of the compiled poems. Short story contest following same plan in the summer.

37. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE. Teen Art Show had over 100 entries. Art put on display in YA area and all over the library. Reception held to honor artists drew over 75 people to the library in the summer.

38. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Book discussion groups at the held during the summer. Teens read books, discuss, and have interacted with authors via telephone. One group member now leads a book discussion group for younger kids. Article in October VOYA.

39. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Developed system wide summer reading program based on the number of pages read, which allows teens to allowing to read anything, including books they read younger children. Goal is 600 pages. Prizes were selected by young adults.

40. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Library has developed a close relationship with Girl Scouts. Scouts have done story times in the library where Scouts read to kids as parents were talking with WIC staff. Girl Scouts have done a craft project and a local history project. Girl Scouts do project cleaning books.

41. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE For Teen Read Week, librarians cooperated with cable access channel and high school to produce 30 second “spots” about using the library featuring leaders from local high school.

42. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE The Library’s Public Information Office has developed mailing lists to promote teen programs which include schools, churches, and youth organizations.

43. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Developed partnership with parks and recreation department. In their promotional materials, they advertise library programs. Similar programs with community education to promote library programs.

44. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE In September, push library cards with a table at open houses and parent/teacher nights. Also, send library card applications to all the media centers. Students can return completed application to media center, media center gets them to library, and then staff processes and mail cards to students.

45. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE During the spring, students from Richfield Middle visit the Southdale Library on field trips for information literacy instruction and to use collection. Also used opportunity to conduct focus groups to solicit opinions about methods to improve library services to young adults.

46. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Systems Library has become involved in community wide grants to develop after school programs and/or increase student achievement.

47. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Received funding from the Arts Council for an arts project work with artist to create large scale puppets, involving students ages 8 – 14. Worked with special program at high school off campus supply two teen interns who interested in art and education

48. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Teen summer volunteer programs which allow teens opportunity to “manage” children’s summer reading program, help with programming duties, assist with shelving juvenile materials, and other tasks. Most successful are those which allow teens opportunity to be creative.

49. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE One branch designed a suggestion box to put in the teen area with form stating: “we listen to you” for suggestions of titles, genres, and music. Titled ordered through the suggestions are put on display.

50. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE. Library publishes “zines” filled with artwork, reviews, poetry, and short fiction. These are created and edited by small groups of teenagers, primarily high school students which are then distributed to area schools.

51. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE. Internship program developed with Service Learning Coordinator where high school student learns about collection development and assist with other special projects for course credit. Expanded to another branch involving grant to hire two teens to assist youth librarian in all aspects of serving teens.

52. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE.Sleepovers at the library; issued library cards, story times, food, and staff involvement. Staff was there to supervise. 11 and 12 year old who were not primarily library users.

53. www.connectingya.com Connecting Young Adults and Libraries Patrick Jones http://www.connectingya.com Dewey or don’t we know good topics for school age programs?

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55. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries BEST PRACTICE Loose leaf notebook: kids made suggestions of books they wanted to read, and also wrote reviews of books, positive and negative.

56. www.connectingya.com Program This! Acting class Author visit by Anna Pearl Barrett ASPIRE Olympics Bats! (Nature to go) Bead crafts Birthday bashes Blue Gnus

57. www.connectingya.com Program This! Ice Cream Juneteenth Kid Kix Kung Fu Mad Science Magic show Magic the gathering Modeling with clay

58. www.connectingya.com Program This! Clown show Computer camps Computer shirt Father's Day craft Fly: hip hop dance FotoFest Galveston trip Game Days

59. www.connectingya.com Program This! Scrapbook Sign language Snakes! Solar system SPCA Stain glass craft artist Teena Goldstein Tie Dye shirt

60. www.connectingya.com 5W 1H WHAT IS THE PROGRAM: (title / description / objectives) WHO IS THE AUDIENCE: (age, gender, target schools) WHEN/WHERE WILL IT TAKE PLACE: (date, time, and location) WHY WILL IT SUCCEED: (partnerships, youth involvement, development needs) HOW WILL BE PROMOTED

61. www.connectingya.com What are the elements of developing successful teen programs? Popularity of the topic: Partnering with schools, school group, and youth serving organization: Promotion, not just publicity. Making connections with what is happening in the lives of teenagers. High touch: the best model for teen programs is NOT story time (we perform; the audience watches), but toddler time: we provide an interactive experience consist with the development needs of the child. Youth involvement: Define success and expectations appropriate to the

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63. www.connectingya.com For your consideration- Things Change (Walker and Company, April 2004)

64. www.connectingya.com Connecting Young Adults and Libraries Patrick Jones http://www.connectingya.com Develop action plans Review objectives For more info: Connecting 3 rd edition One booktalk

65. www.connectingya.com For more information: Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-To- Do-It Manual, Third Edition By Patrick Jones, Michele Gorman, and Tricia Suellentrop Neal-Schuman, July 2004 1-55570-508-1. 8 1/2 x 11. 438 pp.

66. www.connectingya.com Do It Right! Best Practices for Serving Young Adults in School and Public Libraries Patrick Jones and Joel Shoemaker; Introduction by Mary K. Chelton Young adults are a growing population in libraries, yet few librarians know how to provide the unique kinds of services teenagers need and want. Now, YA experts Jones and Shoemaker apply customer service theory and technique to serving this unique population. Shoemaker explores ways to provide the best possible customer service in school library media centers. Jones offers tips, techniques and examples of how to turn teenagers into "raving fans" of the public library. Includes charts, examples, and real-life case studies. These two innovative YA librarians have written the definitive guide to customer service for librarians serving youths. 1-55570-394-1. 2001. 6 x 9. 200 pp. $45.00

67. www.connectingya.com http://www.connectingya.com Running a Successful Library Card Campaign: A How-To-Do-It Manual By Patrick Jones 1-55570-438-7. 175 pp. $55.00 / Neal- Schuman, 2002

68. www.connectingya.com http://www.connectingya.com What's So Scary About R.L. Stine? by Patrick Jones: 0810834685 ; Scarecrow, $32.50. 276 pages, 1998

69. www.connectingya.com Connecting Young Adults and Libraries Patrick Jones http://www.connectingya.com Consulting, training, and coaching for providing powerful youth services including library card campaigns and web projects patrick@connectingYA.com