The Morton Grove Public Library is a lucky organization - they've got Director Ben Shapiro, and Teen/Reference Librarian Katy Opderbeck working for them, and they have their fingers on the pulse of the teen population. Shapiro and Opderbeck wrote a great article about getting teens to "get" the relevance of libraries to them, as well as bringing them physically into libraries. Shapiro tickled my funny bone when he said food would be a good lure. Before you panic, he's not recommending that we start a buffet line in the Manga section! What he meant was that teens like to browse the 'fridge and pick and choose from a large selection, so use that teen mentality of trying something at least once and get them interested. Check out the source article for more great ideas to bring in teens and keep them coming back!
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