The Teen Library Internship Handbook

Teen library internships are becoming increasingly common, and this practical handbook provides guidance on how to launch or grow them. It includes examples, testimonials, step-by-step plans, feedback, and assessment methods, and ways to adapt internship experiences during pandemics or other emergencies. By promoting innovative youth participation, libraries can help teens develop knowledge and skills for their futures while encouraging them to become dedicated library users and supporters.

Format: Hardback
Length: 212 pages
Publication date: 17 October 2021
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Teen library internships are becoming increasingly common in both school and public libraries, providing valuable support and funding for meaningful internship opportunities. This practical handbook offers rationales, helpful advice, and shining examples of successful teen internships. Testimonials by interns, librarians, and library staff, as well as other adults who have worked with employed teens, enhance points, give insights, and generate enthusiasm. Step-by-step plans for creating tailor-made teen library internship handbooks are provided, along with advice on how to gain feedback and assess outcomes to make internships more relevant and valuable. Ways and means to adapt internship experiences during times of pandemics or other emergencies are also discussed, as well as a path to promoting innovative youth participation that will help teens to meaningfully develop knowledge and skills for their futures while encouraging them to become dedicated library users and supporters into adulthood. By providing this new way of encouraging youth participation, libraries can help teens to meaningfully develop knowledge and skills for their futures while encouraging them to become dedicated library users and supporters into adulthood.

Weight: 671g
Dimension: 254 x 185 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538148921