Buy one get one 50% off! See below for offer details | Why take this course: In Youth Services: How to Build Relationships, Programs, and Engagement, you’ll explore hot topics such as graphic novel collections and LGBTQIA+ programming and services, and learn innovative ways to co-design programs with youth. Over three weeks, you’ll discover how to engage youth in programs and connect goals to learning initiatives. Through our speaker program and facilitated asynchronous workshop, you’ll learn tenets of conflict resolution and trauma-informed practices that will help you better manage teen behavioral challenges in your libraries. It all starts on May 2. Hurry, the advance rate deadline is April 18! Who should attend: This course is for public youth services librarians, grades 7-12 school librarians, and other stakeholders in youth library programs and management. |
Course Program Week 1: Thursday, May 2, 2024 | Led by: Christi Showman Farrar, Library Consultant, Massachusetts Library System (MLS) | Session 1 | 2:00-3:00 pm ET Managing Teen Behavioral Challenges, Pt. 1: Understanding and Advocating for Teens What should youth services librarians know about adolescent brain development to improve teen advocacy and to help proactively prevent behavior challenges? How do you advocate for youth inside and outside of your library? And how can you establish clear boundaries and expectations to help set everyone up for success? This session will discuss tangible ways to better understand, advocate for, and mitigate challenges with youth. | Led by: Laurel Dooley, Teen Services Manager | Session 2 | 3:15-4:00 pm ET Managing Teen Behavioral Challenges, Pt. 2: Restorative Practices How can you respond to teen behavior challenges in a trauma-informed way? And how can you use restorative justice practices to encourage accountability and relationship building when harm is caused? This session will discuss ways to handle behavior issues with youth, both during and after an incident. We will also discuss proactive strategies such as how to be an effective mentor and how to build meaningful relationships with young people. | Led by: Dr. Laurel Krapivkin, Ph.D. (she, her) Adjunct Professor of Writing & Literature | Session 3 | 4:00-4:30 pm ET Perceptions of Youth: Recognizing and Removing Biases What perceptions do we have of adolescence, and how do those perceptions impact how we treat young people? This session will discuss how to recognize and work through age-based biases to improve your services with and for youth. | Week 2: Thursday, May 9, 2024 | Session 1 | 2:00-3:00 pm ET Engaging Teens in Library Programs How do you get young people involved in library programs and services? What are the best outreach strategies to make sure they know about what the library offers? This session will discuss practical outreach and engagement strategies to reach teens where they are and encourage them to participate in the library. |
Led by: Isaiah West, (he, him) Teen Services Specialist, Prince George's County Memorial Library System (MD) and Donna Gray, Bronx Library Coordinator for the NYC School Library System | Led by: Jane Gov, Senior Librarian, System-Wide Youth Services at Pasadena Public Library and Branch Manager at Jefferson Branch Library | Session 2 | 3:15-4:00 pm ET Including Youth Voices: Partnering with Students for Youth Programs The best way to know what young people want and need is to ask them directly. Many librarians are struggling to engage youth in programs, but this session will help you solve this problem by teaching you how to create meaningful youth partnerships. You will learn tangible ways to involve youth directly in the conception and development of youth programs, from focus groups to youth advisory boards and more. Join this session and hear from experts about innovative ways that they’ve involved youth to co-create successful, sustainable programs. | Week 3: Thursday, May 16, 2024 | Led by: Julie Koslowsky (she, they) Director of Teen Services at Chicago Public Library | Session 1 | 2:00-2:45 pm ET Establishing Partnerships Between Schools and Public Libraries How can schools and public libraries partner together to share resources and provide more robust offerings for young people? How can public libraries connect their youth services with local and state learning initiatives? This session will discuss ways to work smarter not harder when establishing programs for youth in your community. You'll learn how to de-conflict with your local school or public library to ensure you are complementing each other's services instead of competing for student engagement. | Session 2 | 3:00-4:00 pm ET Innovative Youth Programs: A Roundtable Do you want new ideas for programs to develop in your library? Hear from a panel of librarians about programs they've run that have successful engaged teens. Led by: Jillian Rudes, founder of Manga in Libraries Olisha James, (she, her) Manager, Teen Ambassador Programs, The New York Public Library | Offer Details Purchase one seat to any of our Spring 2024 courses and receive 50% off the price of one seat to a Fall 2024 online course. | * October Library Management Training 8-week course not eligible for 50% discount. No promo code needed for purchase of Spring course. Once order has been completed a 50% off code will be emailed to you. Must purchase first course on or before June 5, 2024. | Buying for a group? Click here for group offers! | Social Media Marketing and Engagement for Libraries |
Why take this course: Keeping up with social media trends can be overwhelming, but you’re not alone! This half-day online course will help you understand the foundations of social media engagement and marketing, demystify newer platforms like TikTok, and bolster your confidence using social media tools in your outreach practices. You will leave with tangible ideas for how you can use social media in your library or classroom to increase engagement across your communities. Who should take this course: This course is geared toward librarians with new or emerging social media marketing skills and will be most relevant for librarians who are involved in community programming, engagement, outreach, marketing, and communications. | Request a discount for groups of 3 or more and work with your colleagues on a project for your library. | Purchase packages of course tickets that you can allocate to your staff as needed and apply to our full roster of courses. Purchase 15 or more registrations and apply them across multiple courses. | |