Young Adults & Teens
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.
Most Recently Added
June 14, Break Free from Misinformation in an Escape Room
Publish Date: News / 14 June 2022
How can you use an escape room to help inform library patrons about misinformation? Join this webinar to learn about new programming resources for your library!
Host Your Own Cardboard Carnival
Publish Date: News / 28 March 2022
It started as part of a Saturday program with underrepresented students in STEM, paired with mentors from Northwestern University to work on monthly engineering design projects. After several years of one-off projects that were, frankly, a bit stale,...
Join a Misinformation Escape Room at PLA
Publish Date: News / 2 March 2022
Do you like escape rooms? Do you want to understand how an escape room can be used to help inform library patrons about misinformation? If you plan to attend the upcoming PLA conference, we invite you to learn more by participating in The Euphori...
Host a New Virtual Misinformation Escape Room at Your Library
Publish Date: News / 25 October 2021
Is your public library looking for a fun way to teach community members about spotting misinformation in social media? Do you know people in your community who like to solve puzzles, play live-action adventure games, or who are craving some structure...
Conscious Child Family Book Discussion Kits on Racial Equity, Identity, and Justice
Publish Date: News / 26 April 2021
We learned about these fantastic book discussion kits in recent Ohio Library Council News and reached out to Caitlin Campbell, Children's Librarian, at the Oxford Lane Library in Ohio, to learn more about the project and the resources included in...
We're Not Complete Without You: A Collaborative Puzzle Art Project
Publish Date: News / 23 March 2021
As libraries continue to look for ways to create meaningful community connections during the pandemic, it was exciting to see this wonderful idea shared in the Programming Librarian Interest Group on Facebook. Thank you to Paula Wagner, Reference...
March 17, What's Format Got to Do with It? The Role Information Formats Play in Evaluating Search Results
Publish Date: News / 17 March 2021
This webinar presents research on the role information formats play in student evaluation of search results and identifies practical applications for libraries of all types.
Understand Active Learning and Community-driven Spaces
Publish Date: News / 26 January 2021
This resource is part of the Toolkit for Creating Smart Spaces, a toolkit to help you re-envision your library’s place as a center of community learning. Libraries have long been hubs of lifelong learning for all ages. Active learning takes ...
Toolkit for Creating Smart Spaces
Publish Date: News / 26 January 2021
Libraries have evolved over the past few years to augment their role in providing lifelong learning for their communities. They have shifted from passive to active engagement with community members. They are becoming hubs of collaborative learning, p...
Activate Your Space with Programming
Publish Date: News / 26 January 2021
This resource is part of the Toolkit for Creating Smart Spaces, a toolkit to help you re-envision your library’s place as a center of community learning. There are many sources of ideas for programming —the internet, your library colleagues,...