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Teen Library Users:
Engaging the Next
Generation
Margaret Portier
Director of Innovative Family Services
Fayetteville Free Library
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Fayetteville Free
Library
Suburban library
Chartered to serve 10,000
School district highly ranked in
science and math
Supportive community
Active volunteer base
9 full-time librarians
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Fayetteville Free Library
Culture of Innovation
Open discussions
Monthly staff forum and
directors’ meeting
Flexibility
LIS student clerks
Universal staff buy-in
Maker culture
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Full STEAM Ahead!
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math aren’t just for
schools.
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Common Core and STEAM
Common Core STEAM
More age-interesting nonfiction More programming around
these core subjects
More historically accurate
fiction Maker Culture
Embrace the community’s
Displays that match current
interests
school projects
Trick teens into learning
Growing graphic novel and
manga collections Start young
Fiction and nonfiction
Don’t leave out the parents
and educators
6. + Teen Programming at
the FFL
LEGO Robotics
First Lego League
Mission:LEGO
STEAMPunk Club!
Creation Club
Teen Volunteer Opportunities
Future Teen Engagement
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FIRST® LEGO® League
FIRST LEGO League is an international competitive LEGO Robotics
team for 9-14 year-olds that involves programming LEGO robots,
completing a public service research project, and learning teamwork
and cooperation.
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FFL’s The Inside Joke
10 members
Ages 9-14
All levels of abilities
2012 Challenge: Senior Solutions
Robot Game
Project
Core Values
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Mission:LEGO
An opportunity for teens to learn about programming and LEGO
robotics in a hands-on mission based after-school program
10. + Your Mission:LEGO, should you choose
to accept it…
Materials Process
Materials: Process
LEGO Mindstorms Kits Introduce the pieces
Computers (one per kit) Introduce the software
Kids Separate into teams
Announce the Mission
Or have them come up
with it
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STEAMPunk Club!
A steampunk genre reading club that includes
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math projects.
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STEAMPunk Club!
• Each month sponsored by
a steampunk YA novel
• Book discussion
• Hands on projects
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STEAMPunk! Projects
• Hot air balloons
• Salt water and air batteries
• Wind turbines
• Takeapart
• Skeletons
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Creation Club
An afterschool club for middle school students interested in digital
media.
15. FFL Community
+ Creation Lab
(and FFL Fab Lab)
Adobe Creative Suite
Green screen wall
Video cameras
Podcast station
iLife Suite
iPads
3D Printers
3D modelling software
http://fflib.org/learn/make
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Creation Club
•1st week of the month – Workshop on how to use something in the Creation
Lab
•Last week of the month – Share what you made this month
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Creation Club
So far in 2013… Coming soon…
February – Podcast 3D modelling
Audacity Google Sketch-up
Autodesk 123D
March – Image editing Blender
Adobe Photoshop
Advanced video editing
April – Movie editing Using the green screen
iMovie Adding effects
Music creation
Garageband
Audacity
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the
Creation Club’s creations!
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Teen Volunteer Opportunities
Getting teens to volunteer to do what they do best.
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Teen Corps of Volunteers
Adopt a Shelf
Event support
Display arrangement
Program prep support
Processing project assistance
Smart Play
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Teen Tech Squad
One-on-one technology
assistance
Drop-in help desk
Trained on troubleshooting
most common technology
issues
Assist with FFL IT initiatives
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Digital Media Expert League
Trained on all technologies in the Creation Lab
Provide support and training of patrons during drop-in hours in the
Creation Lab
Create digital content for the FFL
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Bookworms
Prepare and run FFL Book
Sales
Use detective skills to
determine category/genre of
books
Add books to FFL Book Sale
LibraryThing account
Shelve FFL Book Sale books
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Future Teen Engagement
To infinity and beyond…
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Onward and Upward!
Coming Soon Big Goals
Minecraft free play drop-in More Making
program
More STEAM programming
Comic and Manga Read/Write
Forum More involvement with families
Recruit teen volunteers More opportunities for teens to
participate collaboratively
More teen leaders
More fun!
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www.fflib.org
Margaret Portier
Director of Innovative Family Services
mportier@fflib.org
Twitter: @tophile