Keeping Up Your Spirits in 2020

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Teen Services Underground blog has been one of our steady teen go-to blogs for years. In this short post, Cassandra Brindle encourages us to think beyond numbers and focus on ways to keep our spirts- and those of our teen patrons - up. 

She writes: "While 2020 has been a divisive year, I think we can all agree on the fact that nothing’s normal—and that includes our statistics for program attendance. Sometimes it’s up (at my small rural library, we gave away 373 Grab & Go’s in August alone), but frequently our numbers are down. People are simultaneously wanting something to do and burnt out on the enormous variety of online options being offered. What we want, the opportunity to socialize in person (and this coming from a die-hard introvert), is just not on the table right now. And for those of us (myself included) whose jobs revolve around creating, advertising, and hosting events, this sucks."

Stop here to read what she suggests!

Teen & Tween Virtual & Offline Programming YSS blog COVID-19 series:

• Virtual Teen Escape Room Book Club  10/22/21
• Keeping Up Your Spirits  10/4/20
• Tween Virtual Program Ideas  10/1/20
• Tips for Doing Teen Virtual Programming  9/14/20
• Teen Summer Programming During the Pandemic  7/22/20
• SLP Virtual and Offline Program Ideas for Teens/Tweens  5/22/20