Speaker: Maureen Hartman, Hennepin Co. Library, YALSA Board Member
- Looks at the shifts in services to teens & demographics, technology use, and literacies (not just print)
- Growing and changing what our ideas of what learning looks like
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Be a facilitator, not an expert
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Ask questions and put others in charge of their
own learning
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Be the “guide on the side” by empowering them to
go on the journey with you
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Everyone serves teens, not just you
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Introduce teens you know to other staff
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Stop thinking of yourself as a one person show –
you’re just burning yourself out and making it look like only an expert can do
it
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Library staff learn new skills
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Refocus beyond traditional roles and
measurements
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Partner outside library walls
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Sometimes you have to give up other things to
make time for partnerships
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Ex:
Limited when teen volunteers could come in; planning way ahead (all
storytime planning twice a year); stopping
Things you may be able to stop to make room for programming:
- Think about stopping programs that you’re not sure if anyone’s going to come (over and over again) – you need a more solid understanding of what the needs of your community are
- How about programs where only 5 kids come on each basis?
- We’re not competing with Youth Services but… why aren’t more people coming? This could be something you can stop doing
- Stopping bookclubs
- Delegate booklists/displays to other people
- Stop working the desk – (but how will you know what the community needs?!)
- Stop complaining about administration
What about you?
- What are you holding on to? What were you told to give up but you secretly do it anyways?
- Every change is hard at first
What does your boss think?
- Make sure you’re communicating with your supervisor
- Look for support from people who do similar work or who will bring another perspective
What about patrons?
- Even after HS, kids were staying into 19, 20 years old – needed to write specific guidelines to age kids out and be sensitive to kids– you have to ease them out over time, not a sudden drop/change
High
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“Quick Wins”
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Major
Projects
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IMPACT
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“Fill Ins”: Low Impact, Low Effort
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“Thankless
Tasks”: Low impact, hard to achieve
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Low
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EFFORT
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High
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Make a plan – Team action plan for the year
- What is the work, project or program?
- What are we trying to accomplish?
- How can we measure this?
- Who is doing the work?
- What do we need to do this?
- What to start and end
Start/Stop/Continue
Start: What should we/I start doing
Stop: What should we/I stop doing?
- List ideas/items:
- Things that are not working or helping
- Things that impeded or are not practical
- Not delivering desired results
- We or others dislike
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