Youth Services Committee
InterLINK’s Youth Services Committee provides a forum for youth services staff collaboration. Budgeted dollars support shared events and material development for customers, training opportunities for staff, and shared best practices to ensure service excellence.
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Youth Services Details
Learn more about how InterLINK helps support youth services in libraries.
Youth Services Committee Members
The Youth Services Committee consists of one member from each of the 18 InterLINK libraries. Committee members are appointed by their libraries and terms last approximately one year.
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Youth Services Events and Resources
The Committee supports youth services for InterLINK member libraries by providing events and resources tailored to library staff working with youth.
Events include customized learning opportunities for youth services library staff such as Parent-Child Mother Goose training, author talks, and programming workshops. The Committee also creates youth service resources such reading lists, summer reading club materials, and information pamphlets and distributes these resources with InterLINK’s support and shared budgets.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Youth Services Committee FAQs
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InterLINK supports the Youth Services Committee by managing a shared budget for events, meetings, and resources. It also provides the infrastructure needed to deliver resources, software for hosting online meetings and events, and storage facilities. InterLINK staff help coordinate Committee meetings and events, and, when needed, assist with registration and logistics.
The Youth Services Committee consists of one member from each of the 18 InterLINK libraries. The Committee is headed by a Chair that rotates equally amongst the libraries regularly. Committee members are appointed by their libraries and terms last approximately one year.
The budget supporting the Youth Services Committee is primarily spent on shared items such as professional development workshops, shared presentations, and shared materials, with some direct support to libraries for individual presentations; allocated in part by population size, and in part by need.
Please reach out to us. You can email allie.douglas@interlinklibraries.ca to learn more about the Committee.
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