Totally Tweens and Teens: Youth-Created and Youth-Led Library Programs

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The library programs featured in this unique collection are those that have been suggested, created, and led by youth with the help and guidance of the supportive adults at their library. Many times, librarians bring ideas to teens in hopes of getting them to buy in and perhaps help them to run programs. In this book, youll primarily find a role reversal! Tweens and teens lead the way with whatever adult information, support, and supervision they need to see their proposals through.

To accomplish this, the youth are encouraged to create new ideas, are empowered to make decisions, and are given control. Plus, the ideas they bring to life are not just peer-focused. The programs, activities, and events they create and lead can be for children, adults, or even for all ages or mixed audiences, as well as for fellow tweens and teens.

In addition to finding a wide array of proven ideas, recommendations, and testimonials from real tweens and teenagers, you will discover helpful advice on using the philosophies behind allowing youth to not only have a say but to take action; testimonials from adults who have worked directly with youth having this level of empowerment; suggestions on getting approval and providing funding and other support for youth ideas; ways to evaluate such youth-led programs; and sample forms, flyers, and other materials that can be adapted.

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...such a useful tool for teen programming. Not only has she collected a wide variety of programs created by and for teens, but she has also included information on why youth-led programs are so important, how to help programs get approval and funding, and how to evaluate the programs. . . . if after all these years I can get something new and useful from a teen programming book, you might consider taking a look yourself, especially if you hope to have successful teen programming. * Newspoke: The Newsletter of the Alaska Library Association *
An innovative and well-researched guide for any library looking to harness their greatest resource: tweens and teens. This book contains a myriad of useful examples of how and why youth-led programs are important to libraries. Diane's unyielding respect for teens is palpable in her writing and collection of programs. -- Valerie Davis, Teen Services Librarian, Newport Branch, Campbell County Public Library
I read this invaluable resource with growing wonder and admiration. Drawing on her more than forty years of YA librarianship, Tuccillo inspires, instructs, and comes up with exactly the right tools and examples for empowering teens to lead their own library programs and beyond that, to grow from the experience. -- Patty Campbell, Young adult literature critic, author, and speaker

Author Bio

In 1980, Diane P. Tuccillo became the long-time YA Coordinator at the City of Mesa Library in Arizona where she led a dynamic, nationally known TAG. Most recently, she was Teen Services Librarian at the Poudre River Public Library District in Fort Collins, Colorado from 2007 until 2017 where she co-led a vibrant Interesting Reader Society (Teen IRS) TAG.

Tuccillo has been active in many professional organizations, including YALSA, ALAN, and the Arizona Library Association; has been a book reviewer and article contributor for professional journals such as School Library Journal and VOYA magazine and for professional books such as Nilsen & Donelsons Literature for Todays Young Adults. She is an Emeritus VOYA advisory board member and still writes for that publication. This is her fourth book about library work with teenagers.