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Connecting Teens with Technology at the Library presents a balanced view of the often complex relationship between teenagers and their technology. The authors share more than a dozen full lesson plans for technology-based programs, scalable for any library budget, that will help the reader to engage with their teenaged patrons.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Dedications
Series Editor's Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Part I Getting Started
Chapter 1 Technology and Today's Youth
Chapter 2 Technology Setup
Chapter 3 Funding Technology
Chapter 4 Aligning Technology Programs with Your Library's Mission
Part II Connecting Teens with Technology
Chapter 5 Mentorship
Chapter 6 Career Readiness and Exploration
Chapter 7 Partnerships and Collaboration
Part III Technology in Practice
Chapter 8 Tech without Tech
Chapter 9 Making, Makerspaces, and the Maker Movement
Chapter 10 Collection Development
Chapter 11 Sample Technology Programs
Index
About the Authors
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Kelly Czarnecki completed her MS in 2002 and MEd in 2001 at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. She worked at the Bloomington Public Library in Illinois for four years as the young adult services librarian. Czarnecki started at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library at the ImaginOn Branch in 2005 as the teen librarian and is now the teen loft manager. She has over twenty years of experience in working with persons experiencing homelessness who are sheltered. Czarnecki has contributed extensively to the literature on teens and libraries, particularly with technology as a focus. She is currently a columnist for Tag Team Tech with VOYA.
Marie Harris completed her MLIS at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 2018. She began working for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2012 in the Loft at ImaginOn as a teen library services specialist. While in this role, she worked with Kelly Czarnecki to plan many technology-related programs for teens, including facilitating the use of Studio i digital media lab for individuals and groups, planning and implementing a Google Maker Camp series for preteens and teens for two summers, collaborating with community experts to bring coding to the library, planning and implementing dozens of technology-related programs for the public, and partnering with a community teen robotics team. She is currently employed as a branch leader at the Cornelius and Davidson branches of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, where she manages a team of fourteen library staff members.
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Connecting Teens with Technology at the Library presents a balanced view of the often complex relationship between teenagers and their technology. The authors share more than a dozen full lesson plans for technology-based programs, scalable for any library budget, that will help the reader to engage with their teenaged patrons.
