Young adults & teens

McCracken County Public Library Teen Team 2008 posing on circ desk

Today's young adults experience life with or without their library but as your community members transition from childhood to adulthood, you and your library can play a significant role in building life-long learners and library fans. Explore all facets of serving young adults and teens in your community including outreach, collection development, programming, teen volunteers and gaming.

Self-paced courses and webinar recordings on this topic are freely available in the WebJunction Course Catalog.

Photo: McCracken County Public Library, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Let’s Talk Race: Community Healing through Conversation

Publish Date: Webinar / 14 November 2023

Richland Library launched the open-source Let’s Talk Race Curriculum, providing a set of easy-to-follow resources for other organizations to implement locally to deepen community connections.

FIfty Years of Hip Hop

Publish Date: News / 5 September 2023

At Queens Public Library (QPL), a six-month celebration of Hip Hop is wrapping up. Situated just across the East River from the borough that birthed this global cultural movement, there’s no better stage for commemorating this milestone. In March, QP...

Helping Libraries to be Autism-Ready

Publish Date: News / 5 July 2023

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Growing Library Garden Programs

Publish Date: News / 27 June 2023

Library gardens offer a great way for community members to come together to learn, grow, and contribute towards a healthy, balanced environment. And creating a vibrant community green space or gardening program doesn’t have to be complicated. Across ...

Media and Information Literacy: Resources that Address Misinformation

Publish Date: News / 6 June 2023

At a time when the concept of truth is frequently being challenged, media and information literacy enables people to question critically what they have read, heard, and learned.
 
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School Librarians Lead Learning and Transformation

Publish Date: Webinar / 23 May 2023

Join this webinar for an introduction to the School Librarian’s Information Shelf and to learn more from practitioners who have applied transformative practices to their school libraries.

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Publish Date: News / 9 May 2023

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Adopt-a-Shelf Program Lets Students Create Book Displays

Publish Date: News / 12 April 2023

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