Career Development

Teen Library Internships: Preparing Youth for the Future

Saturday, June 25, 2022

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Location: Washington Convention Center, 140A

The innovative concept of offering teen library internships in school, public, special, and university libraries is taking wing in a number of libraries and associated settings today. Speakers will share advice and details based on their experiences with teen internships that libraries can use to build meaningful internship opportunities at their own libraries. Teen library internships provide a new way of encouraging youth participation, help teens to develop valuable knowledge and skills for their futures, encourage teens to become dedicated library users and supporters into adulthood, and sometimes lead to beneficial partnerships. Libraries that want to be on the cutting edge of trends in library teen services and teen career development will want to consider adding teen internships to their repertoire of opportunities for active teen involvement. This program can help to get started!

Learning Objectives:

• Discover rationales and helpful advice to create step-by-step action plans for proposing and conducting meaningful teen library internships.
• Develop desired outcomes for teen internships along with follow-up plans to evaluate them via effective feedback methods and coaching.
• List several approaches for researching and exploring funding options that will support teen library internships.

Main Contact(s)

Diane P. Tuccillo, Over 40 years as a teen library services professional.

Board of Directors
Friends of the Knox County Public Library

Speaker(s)

Diane P. Tuccillo, Over 40 years as a teen library services professional.

Board of Directors
Friends of the Knox County Public Library
Sharon L. Rawlins, n/a

Youth Services Specialist in Lifelong Learning
NJ State Library, Trenton, NJ

Moderator(s)

Sharon L. Rawlins, n/a

Youth Services Specialist in Lifelong Learning
NJ State Library, Trenton, NJ

Speaker(s)

MH

Mary Hirsh

Deputy Director, Programs
Public Library Association | ALA
Sereena Hamm

Librarian
Washington Latin Public Charter School
LK

Luke Kirkland

Teen Services Department Head
Waltham Public Library, Massachusetts
Joy Robinson

Senior Adult Services Librarian
Piscataway Public Library, New Jersey
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Darshni Patel

Student
George Mason University, Washington, D.C.