Transforming: Community Relationships

TikTok & Libraries: A Powerful Partnership

Monday, June 27, 2022

9:00am – 10:00am

Location: Washington Convention Center, 154A-B

Join high school librarian Kelsey Bogan to learn all about how TikTok is a fantastic social media platform for libraries. You'll learn how libraries are successfully leveraging the incredible power & reach of TikTok for things like: advocacy, community building, collection development (especially diverse collection development!), readers advisory, instructional tutorials, PD, and more. You'll get to see plenty of examples of how a libraries use TikTok, and learn about how TikTok is taking the publishing world by storm (and causing more teens to read!). You can also follow Kelsey on TikTok @gvhslibrary to see her library's TikTok in action!

Learning Objectives:

Identify various goals that TikTok can help libraries and librarians achieve.
Describe the ways TikTok is impacting the publishing industry and the reading trends and habits, particularly among young adults.
List various strategies a librarian can use to leverage TikTok for collection development, particularly diverse collection development.

Main Contact(s)

Kelsey E. BOGAN

School Library Media Specialist
Great Valley High School

Speaker(s)

Kelsey E. BOGAN

School Library Media Specialist
Great Valley High School

Moderator(s)

Kelsey E. BOGAN

School Library Media Specialist
Great Valley High School