Thursday, June 26, 2008

TAGGING-COMPETENCY

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Reflection:Teens are pulled in so many directions socially and emotionally that the library has to devise a way to keep our young patrons when they are post story time age. Our Youth Department has book clubs, game nights, graphic arts classes, karate, poetry slams and more in an effort to pull in our community's young adult population.

Youth Services programming requires a great deal of time, ingenuity ,creativity and money to keep the adolesecents interested and coming back. In recent years libraries in this area are creating "Teen" Librarian positions, those professionals who specialize in library services that serve and attract young adults. This is perhaps the best indicator that libraries recognize that they must appeal and serve everyone in their communities no matter what age.

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