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Morning Presentations, 10-11am:
Morning Presentations, 10-11am:
Tuesday, April 6: Teen Programs
Tuesday, April 6: Teen Programs
View the recording of Tuesday Morning's Session on Teen Programs:
Passcode: %3#gfq8L
Lori Conforti, Howard County Library System
Howard County Library System recently launched a teen-led podcast, HoCoCast, to highlight teen voices in our community. This platform provides teens opportunities for growth in all five areas of YALSA's basic learning outcomes (community, creativity, digital citizenship, leadership, learning, and literacies). While working on HoCoCast, teens from across the county collaborate to: decide on episode themes; conduct interviews of local and national figures; create original content (book reviews, genre overviews, etc); and promote the podcast. Podcasting allows our teens to learn from local mentors and provides teens a medium for sharing their talents and passions with a wide audience.
Adryana Carroll, Baltimore County Public Library
The Owings Mills Branch of Baltimore County Public Library hosted its first-ever, and wildly successful, Prom Closet on Saturday, April 13, 2019. The event, which was designed to provide teen prom goers with formal wear at no cost, supplied students from 58 schools with free, head-to-toe ensembles. Baltimore County Public Library’s 19 branches received more than 1,000 dresses, suits and tuxedos, accessories, shoes and more. Poster will include information regarding how the event was created, the brainstorming and planning processes, and photos from the event itself.
Wednesday, April 7: Spaces
Wednesday, April 7: Spaces
View the recording of Wednesday Morning's Session on Teen Spaces:
Passcode: oY!X?Hv2
Patricia Feriano, Autumn Meyers, & Felicia Davis, Montgomery County Public Schools
Best practices and information about how to incorporate LBGTQA+ fiction into collections for middle and high schoolers.
Laura J. Ellis (formerly Brown), Media Specialist, Wheaton High School, Montgomery County Public Schools
Working with Teens in Times of Trauma through Reciprocal Mentorship provides educators with information, support, and tools we can employ to assist our students who may be experiencing trauma due to COVID 19 and political unrest, and violence in 2020 and 2021. Everyone has been traumatized by COVID 19 and many may not realize it. Teens may be exhibiting behaviors that are not conducive to being in libraries and schools and it may be because they are experiencing the impact of trauma. It is important to be able to recognize the signs of trauma, some of which mirror the signs of suicide, and provide our patrons, students, and even fellow staff members with support through reciprocal mentorship. In this presentation participants will be given the tools to support each other and patrons through trust-based relationships where active listening is used to identify the base emotion of the trauma so healing can begin.
Lorelei Bidwell, Anne Arundel County Public Library
Anime and manga can be a little intimidating if you don't know the basics. Lorelei will share on the successes of her teen and tween anime clubs - why they are important and how her club went from fizzle to sizzle!
Thursday, April 8: Partnerships for Teen Services
Thursday, April 8: Partnerships for Teen Services
View the recording of Thursday Morning's Session on Partnerships:
Passcode: RXnnD+6p
Cody Brownson-Katz & Sade Wilkins El, Baltimore County Public Library
In 2019, the Owings Mills Branch of the Baltimore County Public Library participated in the Public Library Association’s Inclusive Internship Initiative. A teen intern and mentor worked together over the summer to develop the Period Action Drive (P.A.D.), a program that engages teens to fight the stigma around menstruation and empowers them to serve their community.
The program consisted of a community donation drive for pads and tampons and a “packing party” where girls in grades 6 to 12 were invited to pack the donations into monthly kits. The teens created over 200 kits for two local community partners, Community Crisis Center and Prologue, Inc., which both serve clients experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Cody and Sade will discuss period poverty, the internship experience, and how to replicate the P.A.D. program at your library.
Erin Chrvala , Baltimore County Public Library
Reading Buddy programs are a unique way to bring young people to the library and expand your programming and outreach. These programs pair teen volunteers one-on-one with early elementary students to practice reading together, offering teens the opportunity to gain volunteer experience while mentoring a younger child. This session will introduce one model that has been successfully used in a Maryland public library branch for five years and share tips on how to set up a Reading Buddies program at your library.
Bill Stea, Charles County Public Library
Best practices and strategies to reach organizations and businesses in the community to foster programming that meet the needs of our teens: from food by Chick-Fil-A to vendors for our Job Fair for Young Adults and our Charles County Comic Con (C4).
Friday, April 9: Advocacy for Teen Services
Friday, April 9: Advocacy for Teen Services
View the recording of Friday Morning's Session on Advocacy:
Passcode: 19KCSA^n
Elizabeth Mayer, Cecil County
To complete an internship for her Masters in Library Science program, Elizabeth designed and conducted a large-scale assessment of teen library programming in Cecil County. The three main areas of focus for this study were marketing and communication towards teens, the appeal of current and prospective teen programming, and the information needs of teens in the county. After surveying over 750 teens, Elizabeth has a wealth of data to support conclusions for these three focus areas. Elizabeth will use the survey responses to create a poster highlighting the types of programs the teens are interested in attending and helping to develop, ways the teens would like to receive communication from the library about programs and services, and explore the many reasons the respondents listed for why they come to the library.
Kate Sigler of Baltimore County Public Library and DauVeen Walker of Charles County Public Library share how the EXCITE Transformation for Libraries project gave their libraries tools to develop impactful new programs and services for teens.
In 2018 and 2019, a team of four Baltimore County Public Library staff members from the Woodlawn and Rosedale Branches participated in EXCITE Transformation for Libraries. Kate Sigler, Assistant Library Manager at the Woodlawn Branch, will share what they learned and how it led to “Be Involved,” an after school service club that gives teens opportunities to give back to their community through creative service projects.
As Kate shares BCPL's EXCITE experience, attendees will gain strategies and applications to assist in incorporating participatory design and teen voice into library services and program planning through responsive practices and collaboration.
Hosted by the Connecticut State Library, the EXCITE Transformation for Libraries is an intensive team-based experiential learning program that will teach collaboration and innovation skills, result in programs and services that respond to community input and demonstrated needs, lead to cultural change at libraries, and sustain project impact through extended training. The EXCITE Transformation for Libraries project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
Afternoon Table Talk Discussions, 2-3:30pm:
Afternoon Table Talk Discussions, 2-3:30pm:
Each Topic Discussion will be facilitated by a discussion leader who has experience on the topic. These are not presentations, but discussion and sharing sessions among colleagues. Choose from the discussion topics below:
Tuesday, April 6: Teen Programs
Wednesday, April 7: Teen Spaces
Thursday, April 8: Partnerships for Teen Services
Friday, April 9: Advocacy for Teen Services
This project supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Maryland State Library.
Contact us: Conference Organizer- Carrie Sanders, Maryland State Library, carrie.sanders@maryland.gov | Webmaster- Kevin Jayce, Baltimore County Public LIbrary: kjayce@bcpl.net
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