Get ready to showcase your library's technology offerings during Teen Tech Week™. This year, TTW is March 8-14th and will be celebrated with a theme of "Libraries are for Making."
The purpose of Teen Tech Week is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of digital media, especially the nonprint resources offered through libraries, such as e-books, e-readers, databases, audiobooks, and social media.
There are lots of ways your library can participate in Teen Tech Week: you can offer special programs or activities, or simply encourage teens and parents to come to the library and check out your tech resources.
Here are free toolkits to plan for TTW at your library:
- 50 Ideas for Celebrating Teen Tech Week that include a fine amnesty week for teens, a cosplay party, and a film fest
- Event and activity ideas toolkit
- Event planning toolkit that includes a planning calendar
- Publicity toolkit — downloadable tools you can use to publicize TTW in your community
- Making in the Library toolkit — materials and resources for professional development, outreach, collections, and programs to successfully integrate the Maker mindset into your library's programs and services
- Easy advocacy ideas
Teen Tech Week is a national initiative sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services (YALSA) division of the American Library Association. The purpose of Teen Tech Week is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of digital media, especially the nonprint resources offered through libraries, such as e-books, e-readers, databases, audiobooks, and social media.