Episode 910:Youth Services

You can find our full show notes here, with links to everything we discussed today. Earlier this season we talked about the three required courses in this certification program. This week we are talking about one of the competencies that is optional: Youth Services. Today is our last topic! It’s been great talking about all of these ideas with you! “These competencies are for support staff working in a public library in service to youth, from birth through age seventeen. Services to youth include collection development, programming, providing readers’ advisory and reference services, and teaching information literacy skills and related activities.” This was a quick overview of all ten of the topics in the ALA/APA’s certification topics for library staffers. And if you want to find out more about getting certified yourself, check the website (linked in our show notes), or just email us at admin@cmle.org. It has been great talking about library skills with you all season! This is our final show of season nine - but don’t worry about us leaving you. We will be back here on Tuesday with another season of our series Browsing Books. We will keep looking at counties in Minnesota, finding an interesting fact about each, and suggesting books you can enjoy for yourself or recommend to your patrons. Subscribe today to our sister podcast: Reading With Libraries! We will start a new season of this book group next Thursday. Join us each week for a new genre, tasty beverages to share, and a lot of books to discuss!

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Libraries are amazing places! The work library people do is so wide-ranging, it can be hard to keep up on the latest news. We are here to help. Each episode, we focus on one area of library work, discuss library news stories, recommend some books, and share a Spotlight Library that is doing some interesting work. If your image of libraries is dominated by crabby old women who shush you, or places where they scowl when you take books home - you are in for a big surprise. Libraries are the jewels of their communities, and doing all sorts of amazing things every day! Books are the backbone of any library, and there is so much more to do and to use. Service to every member of their community means searching out and connecting with the needs of a lot of different groups. No matter what your interests, there is a library out there for you! Listen to us talk about some of the great things happening in libraries today!