Pasadena Citizen has an article on their public library offering new services for teens. When I was working as a children’s/YA librarian, I created a program like this. I still miss those kids. They were funny, warm, goofy and best of all, they let me into their lives. I only hope that the new teen librarian at Pasadena gets to feel that magic too.
I see teen programs as really vital, though I must admit that I have yet to start one here. The ideas are floating in my brain, but we have yet to really start targeting teens. I don’t think that any of the larger libraries in our library system have teen librarians and some lack even an area for teens. And we wonder why these kids aren’t using libraries??