[OPLINLIST] FW: [alacro-l] Collaborate with your teens build a better library in YALSA's youth participation online class

[Hickson-Stevenson, Pamela]

FYI - Training opportunity from YALSA

 

Pamela J. Hickson-Stevenson, Ohio Chapter Councilor to ALA and

Assistant Director

Akron-Summit County Public Library

60 S. High Street

Akron, OH  44326

 

Phone 330.643.9102          Fax 330.643.9160

 

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From: Don Wood [mailto:dwood at ala.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:40 PM
To: alacro-l at ala.org
Subject: [alacro-l] Collaborate with your teens build a better library
in YALSA's youth participation online class

 

Incorporating teen input into library services offers challenges, but
you can reap many rewards, including a collection that flies off the
shelves, an active teen advisory board, and packed programs that engage
teens week after week. Want to know how you can make it work for your
library? Join us for YALSA's brand-new online course, Tapping Youth
Participation to Strengthen Library Services, aimed at making youth
participation an important - and successful - part of your library. 

 

Over four weeks, participants will learn how to get teens involved in
collection development and program planning and how to involve teens in
designing virtual and physical teen library space. Students will be able
to identify practical ways to increase youth participation at their
library , learn how to sell the benefits of incorporating teen input
into services to administrators, and develop evaluative tools for
programs and services that utilize teens in the planning process. 

 

Instructor Amy Alessio, Teen Coordinator for the Schaumburg Township
District Library, is an award-winning presenter and author who co-wrote
A Year of Programs for Teens and edited Excellence in Library Services
to Young Adults, 5th Edition, for YALSA. 

 

Registration is now open at www.ala.org/yalsa/onlinecourses.
Registration starts at $135 for YALSA members and the four-week class
begins on October 4. But hurry: registration ends September 27. 

 

Questions? Contact Eve Gaus at egaus at ala.org or 1-800-545-2433, ext.
5293

 

 

Stephanie (Stevie) Kuenn

Communications Specialist

Young Adult Library Services Association <http://www.ala.org/yalsa> 

skuenn at ala.org

v: 312.280.2128

f: 312.280-5276

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Check out YALSA's newest books, Risky Business and Multicultural
Programs for Tweens & Teens, at www.alastore.ala.org!

 

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