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Patrick Jones www.connectingya.com

Patrick Jones www.connectingya.com. www.connectingya.com. Digital divide and diversity: 25% of users “just playing” Bridges out of Poverty. www.connectingya.com. Format explosion: Responding to developmental needs Case for comics “at least they reading something” Guysread.com

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Patrick Jones www.connectingya.com

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  1. Patrick Jones www.connectingya.com

  2. www.connectingya.com Digital divide and diversity: • 25% of users • “just playing” • Bridges out of Poverty www.connectingya.com

  3. www.connectingya.com • Format explosion: • Responding to developmental needs • Case for comics • “at least they reading something” • Guysread.com • Its about customers, not collections www.connectingya.com

  4. www.connectingya.com • Information literacy: • deGooglizing • School corps • Teen Tech Week www.connectingya.com

  5. www.connectingya.com New spaces: • Developmental needs reminder • VOYA articles • Coolness • Online spaces • Answering the public’s demand for shhhhhhhhhh www.connectingya.com

  6. www.connectingya.com Outcome measurement: • What’s next • What’s in it for them • Do we count or think about why our work counts? www.connectingya.com

  7. www.connectingya.com Outreach in the community • Only two ways • Expected • Needed • Do the old math www.connectingya.com

  8. www.connectingya.com Programming returns: • Teen Read Week • After school programs • Book based programs – Twilight, Manga, etc • Technology as program (DDR) www.connectingya.com

  9. www.connectingya.com Teens as volunteers • Not date due cards • Recruitment • Partnerships • Expand capacity www.connectingya.com

  10. www.connectingya.com Youth development: • Why are we here? • What does our public want? • “problem free does not mean fully prepared” • Building assets www.connectingya.com

  11. www.connectingya.com • Youth involvement plus programming equals success • Library 2.0 ideals • Content creation • Program development • Mentoring and recruiting • Utilizing expertise www.connectingya.com

  12. Why They Aren’t Reading By the time many students reach high school, they equate reading with ridicule, failure or exclusively school-related tasks. www.connectingya.com

  13. Why They Aren’t Reading Students are not excited by ideas. They prefer to experience life directly rather than through reading. www.connectingya.com

  14. Why They Aren’t Reading Many active adolescents are unable to sit still long enough to read for any prolonged period of time. . www.connectingya.com

  15. Why They Aren’t Reading Teenagers are too self-absorbed and preoccupied with themselves, their problems, families, sexual roles, etc., to make connections between their world and books. www.connectingya.com

  16. Why They Aren’t Reading Books are inadequate entertainment compared to other competing media such as television, video games and the Internet. www.connectingya.com

  17. Why They Aren’t Reading Persistent stress from home and school to read constantly is counter-productive for some adolescents. www.connectingya.com

  18. Why They Aren’t Reading Adolescents may grow up in non-reading homes void of reading material with no reading role models. There is no one to pass down the value of reading.. www.connectingya.com

  19. Why They Aren’t Reading Some adolescents may consider reading solitary and anti-social. www.connectingya.com

  20. Why They Aren’t Reading Reading is considered “uncool” and something adults do. www.connectingya.com

  21. Why They Aren’t Reading Can’t find the good books www.connectingya.com

  22. Consulting, training, and coaching for providing powerful youth services including library card campaigns and web projects patrick@connectingYA.com Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick Joneshttp://www.connectingya.com www.connectingya.com

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