Library Project — Teen Book Box
One of my favorite projects from my time working at the Stoughton Public Library was starting the Teen Bookbox program. The idea came from this Teen Services Underground post by Melisa Martinez at the Hinsdale Public Library. I shared the structure of the project with my supervisor, and then pitched it to the rest of the relevant library department heads who would be involved, including Circulation, Tech Services, and the Library Director. We agreed that it was a good way to promote books that were in the Stoughton collection specifically (we wouldn't be offering books from the other libraries in our system.) I made flyers to advertise the program, and talked it up to the teens I saw during my programs. We opened up 20 slots for teens to sign up, and most of them were snapped up pretty quickly, though not all the teens to sign up at the beginning kept participating in the program through the months I was at the library. The ones who did were SO FUN, and I really got t...