The following message is shared by Angie Manfredi, the Iowa State Youth Services Consultant.
"I know this has been a topic of much discussion, so I am sharing in case you want to share with your librarians.
Since many of my librarians were asking about socially distant programming for teens, I recruited the teen librarian who is doing the YALSA Train the Trainer program with me to do a session on this. Her name is Tanvi Rastogi and she works at the Ames Public Library. She talked about how they have transitioned their programs online and how she lets teen lead in programming. She covered their discord server, online events, and an anti-racist online book club they started that will be led by local community members.
I know many of our libraries (very small and rural) felt like there was NO WAY they could do anything she talked about or didn't even know WHERE TO START with teens but there's some people that will always be sure they can't do something so we tried to address that some too, urging them to play to their own strengths, listen to teens, and not feel bad about not being able to do everything. Hopefully that got through to AT LEAST A FEW OF THEM.
Anyway, please feel free to share if you think it is useful! https://www.
I also did a webinar last month on socially distant reader's advisory tips, since that too was a topic I had been getting asked about: https://www.
Thanks to Tessa Michaelson Schmidt for forwarding this resource.
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