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Teen Involvement

July 12, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Join the TLT Teen Advisory Board!

Did you know we have a Teen Advisory Board here at TLT? We do! We currently have 6 active TAB members and they do a variety of things like review books, share teen culture, and talk about teen issues with us. Several of our TAB members graduated or dropped out last year, so as we […]

July 17, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

In Our Mailbox: How to resurrect a long dead TAG?

Many of us have had this problem at one point or another. Having a TAG (or TAB, or YAAC, or Teen Council – whatever you want to call it) is drummed into our heads as The Thing to do in order to get teen input on library services.  But sometimes they fizzle, sometimes you burn […]

July 22, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The Simon Teen Tastemakers Event at ALA: What the teens said and how you can use this idea as a program

At ALA 2013 this year, Heather and I took a group of teens to a Simon Teen event that was really quite genius.  In fact, it would make a fun programming idea. TLT coblogger Heather Booth lives in the Chicago area, so she was on the local events committee.  One of the things that she […]

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How I Survived Conferencing with Teens and You Can Too

July 8, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The other day I talked about how ALA 2013 was going to be a commuter conference for me, and mentioned that I would be bringing teens along for the first time.  All of this contributed to an e..x..h..a..u..s..t..i..n..g weekend, but honestly, I am so fortunate to have had the opportunity and would do it again […]

The Cassandra Project, or youth involvement from the ground floor (a guest post by Patrick Jones)

April 9, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Today, I am very honored to present a guest post by YA Librarian GURU Patrick Jones, the author of many teen books and what has long been the ya librarian bible, Connecting Young Adults and Libraries.  As a librarian in Ohio, I once attended library training presented by Patrick Jones as a result of an […]

Where Everybody Knows Your Name…. Thinking about Want Teens Need

April 2, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

I’ve been a fan of Connected Learning for a while- I really like their streaming learning environment, and their topics.  The one for March 21 was on HOMAGO spaces (Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out) which is an awesome concept (read our previous post called Don’t Underestimate the Value of Hanging Out), and takes what […]

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Human Trafficking: YOU can get involved and help! (guest post by Kim Purcell)

March 7, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Kim Purcell is the author of Trafficked, a novel about human trafficking.  She also wrote THE MOST VIEWED post on this blog: Fear in Writing, Fear in Life. She is joining us again today to talk more about trafficking and how YOU can get involved and help put an end to this horrible act, which […]

Put a Teen on It! The library board that is (Teen involvement)

February 21, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

When we talk about teen involvement in libraries, we are often thinking of ways that we – the teen librarians – can involve teens in our planning activities and give them a voice in our services.  But there are countless ways to involve teens in the life of the library.  Today I’ll discuss a big one […]

So You Wanna Be a Superstar? The Book, The Event, The Giveaway

December 20, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Kids who love the arts often hang out in our libraries.  Chances are when you attend the school musical, you know half the kids on stage and wonder why you have never met the other half. How can you serve the superstar aspirations of those kids?  Could the library be more than a repository of […]

We #Mustacheyoutoread At The Library… A Pictorial

December 7, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

  In case you missed how this all started, take a look at Karen’s post.  I happen to work in a library where we have a ton of kids, and the day I started playing around with it was the middle of our week of Thanksgiving break.  I knew that mustaches were popular and am […]

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