Totally Tweens and Teens - Youth-Created and Youth-Led Library Programs

The library programs featured in this unique collection are those that have been suggested, created, and led by youth with the help and guidance of the supportive adults at their library. Many times, librarians bring ideas to teens in hopes of getting them to buy in and perhaps help them to run programs. In this book, you’ll primarily find a role reversal! Tweens and teens lead the way with whatever adult information, support, and supervision they need to see their proposals through.

To accomplish this, the youth are encouraged to create new ideas, are empowered to make decisions, and are given control. Plus, the ideas they bring to life are not just peer-focused. The programs, activities, and events they create and lead can be for children, adults, or even for all ages or mixed audiences, as well as for fellow tweens and teens.

In addition to finding a wide array of proven ideas, recommendations, and testimonials from real tweens and teenagers, you will discover helpful advice on using the philosophies behind allowing youth to not only have a say but to take action; testimonials from adults who have worked directly with youth having this level of empowerment; suggestions on getting approval and providing funding and other support for youth ideas; ways to evaluate such youth-led programs; and sample forms, flyers, and other materials that can be adapted.

List of contents

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Appendixes

Foreword by Diana Tixier Herald

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1-Why Youth Created and Led?

2-Helping Tweens and Teens Get Approval, Funding, and Other Support

3-Examples of Youth-Created and Led Programs and Activities for Peers

4-Examples of Youth-Created and Led Programs and Activities for Children, Adults, All Ages, and Mixed Audiences

5-Evaluating Youth-Led Programs

Appendixes

Selected Bibliography and Webliography

Index

About the Author

About the author

Diane P. Tuccillo earned her MLS degree from Rutgers University in 1980. After serving as Young Adult Librarian at the Rutherford (NJ) Public Library and the Reading (MA) Public Library, she became the long-time Young Adult Coordinator at the City of Mesa Library in Arizona where she led a dynamic, nationally-known library teen advisory group for 27 years. Most recently, she was Teen Services Librarian at the Poudre River Public Library District in Fort Collins, Colorado from 2007 until 2017 where she co-led a vibrant Interesting Reader Society teen advisory group. Tuccillo has been actively involved in and has received awards from several professional organizations, including the Young Adult Library Services Association, the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Arizona Library Association; has been a book reviewer and article contributor for professional journals such as School Library Journal and Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) magazine; has contributed to books such as Nilsen & Donelson’s classic Literature for Today’s Young Adults; and has been a regular and an Emeritus member of the VOYA advisory board. Her second book, Teen-Centered Library Service: Putting Youth Participation into Practice, was published by Libraries Unlimited in 2010; her third book, the completely revised and updated second edition of Library Teen Advisory Groups (the first edition originally published by Scarecrow in 2005) was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018; and her fourth book, Totally Tweens & Teens: Youth-Created and Youth-Led Library Programs, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2020. Her article on teens in charge of library fundraisers, “Teens at the Helm: Library Fundraisers,” was published in Voice of Youth Advocates magazine in June 2018, and her books mention how teens and librarians can partner with their Friends of the Library groups. During her long librarianship career, Tuccillo worked closely with Friends of the Library members to gain support for youth library programs and activities. She also served on the Board of Directors of the City of Mesa Library in Arizona for two years between leaving that library and securing her position at the Poudre River Public Library District in Colorado. Later, she served on the Board of Directors of the Poudre River Friends of the Library and as a Poudre River Public Library volunteer for four years after retirement. She currently serves as a member of the Knox County Friends of the Library in Tennessee.

Summary

In this book, you’ll discover how tweens and teens lead the way in designing, planning, and running library programs with the adult support they need to see their plans through. The ideas featured in this book are ones teens themselves have brought to life for children, adults, their own peers, or even for all ages or mixed audiences.

Product details

• Authors: Diane P Tuccillo, Diane P. Tuccillo, Tuccillo Diane P.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781538130452
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-3045-2
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Teen Librarian Bookshelf
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, Library & information services, Library and information services