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Page 1: Patrick Jones  Digital divide and diversity: 25% of users just playing Bridges out of Poverty

Patrick Joneswww.connectingya.com

Page 2: Patrick Jones  Digital divide and diversity: 25% of users just playing Bridges out of Poverty

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Digital divide and diversity:

25% of users “just playing” Bridges out of

Poverty

Page 3: Patrick Jones  Digital divide and diversity: 25% of users just playing Bridges out of Poverty

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www.connectingya.com2. Format explosion: Responding to developmental

needs Case for comics “at least they reading

something” Guysread.com Its about customers, not

collections

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3. Information literacy:

deGooglizing School corps Teen Tech Week

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www.connectingya.comNew spaces: Developmental needs

reminder VOYA articles Coolness Online spaces Answering the

public’s demand for shhhhhhhhhh

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www.connectingya.comOutcome

measurement: What’s next What’s in it for

them Do we count or

think about why our work counts?

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www.connectingya.comOutreach in the

community Only two ways Expected Needed Do the old math

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www.connectingya.comProgramming returns: Teen Read Week After school programs Book based programs

– Twilight, Manga, etc Technology as

program (DDR)

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Teens as volunteers

Not date due cards

Recruitment Partnerships Expand capacity

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www.connectingya.comYouth development: Why are we here? What does our

public want? “problem free

does not mean fully prepared”

Building assets

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10.Youth involvement plus programming equals success

Library 2.0 ideals Content creation Program development Mentoring and recruiting Utilizing expertise

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Why They Aren’t Reading

By the time many students reach high school, they equate reading with ridicule, failure or exclusively school-related tasks.

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Why They Aren’t Reading

Students are not excited by ideas. They prefer to experience life directly rather than through reading.

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Why They Aren’t Reading

Many active adolescents are unable to sit still long enough to read for any prolonged period of time. .

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Why They Aren’t ReadingTeenagers are too

self-absorbed and preoccupied with themselves, their problems, families, sexual roles, etc., to make connections between their world and books.

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Why They Aren’t Reading

Books are inadequate entertainment compared to other competing media such as television, video games and the Internet.

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Why They Aren’t Reading

Persistent stress from home and school to read constantly is counter-productive for some adolescents.

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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..

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Why They Aren’t Reading

Some adolescents may consider reading solitary and anti-social.

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Why They Aren’t Reading

Reading is considered “uncool” and something adults do.

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Why They Aren’t Reading

Can’t find the good books

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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesConnecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick JonesPatrick Jones

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Consulting, training, and coaching for providing powerful youth services including library card campaigns and web projects

[email protected]