If you're a Vermont librarian who serves children and teens, this toolkit is for you!

Connect

• Sign up to receive the Department of Libraries Newsletter!
  • Each month you'll receive news about the department, partner organizations and local libraries. 
• Sign up to join a library listserv!
  • Start with VTYAC to ensure that you get all the Youth Services news from VTLIB.
• Join a Professional Organization!
  • Vermont Library Association (VLA), Vermont School Library Association (VSLA) and New England Library Association (NELA) are good bets.

Learn

• Public Library Statistics
• Continuing Education
  • You'll find workshops, webinars and information about certification.
  • Self-paced learning modules
    • Passive Programming
    • Dumping Dewey
    • Maker Spaces
    • Weeding
    • Easy Readers
    • Library Programming and the Developing Brain
    • Programs for Everyone
    • We Need Diverse Books
    • Teen Services
      • Teen Volunteers

Plan

• Letters About Literature - A Writing Contest for Grades 4-12
  • 2018-2019 Vermont LAL Competition
• 2018 Agricultural Literacy Week
• Vermont Authors & Illustrators
• Youth Discussion Sets
  • Instructions on How to Reserve Discussion Sets (new process as of August 2018)
  • Searchable Spreadsheet of Discussion Sets
• Vermont Book Awards
  • Red Clover is our picture book award and is coordinated in partnership with the Vermont Center for the Book.  There is a conference associated with this award each fall.
  • The Dorothy Canfield Fisher award is the second oldest child-voted book award in the country.  The award is for grades 4-8.  There is a conference associated with this award each spring.
  • The Green Mountain Book Award is our teen book award.
• Summer Reading

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