Teams and Staff

• Youth Services Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Team,  lib-youth-services-edi-team@multco.us(link sends e-mail)
• Youth and Teen Services Priorities Team, youth-and-teen-services-priorities-team@multco.us(link sends e-mail)
• Youth Learning Team
• Youth Development, lib-youth-development@multco.us(link sends e-mail)
• Danielle Jones, Youth Development Manager
• Nic Bilyeu, Youth Services Assistant
• Kate Carter, Youth Reader Services Librarian

YS Staff Responsibilities, Training and Learning Resources

• Core / Optional Youth and Teen Librarian duties
• New staff orientation plan
• ALSC Competencies for Librarians Serving Children
• YALSA Competencies for Librarians Serving Teens

Services, Programs, and Resources

• Abbreviations related to Youth Services
• Budget guidance for programming, outreach and engagement
• Día de los Niños y el Día de los Libros
• Emails lists for YS groups
• Summer Reading

Booklists

• Bibliocommons and print list guidelines
• Print Shop order form

Booktalks

Shared YS google folder

Flyers

• guidelines for creating your own vs requesting from marketing
• staff created
• templates

Giveaway books for outreach events

Community Engagement request form

Children's iPad 

app descriptions with icon images

Kits and other supplies

• Internal kits belonging to locations, shared, or available by request
• butcher paper, assisted listening systems, and more -- these requests are filled by Grant Swanson
• Youth Services Materials & Supplies form to request:
  • bubbles, egg shakers and scarves for storytimes
  • giveaways to have on hand when programs are at capacity
• button makers -- Youth Services Assistant will place orders in October/November each year. If more supplies are needed, purchases need to be made using location budgets.
• form for requesting sensory items for youth

Professional resources maintained by Youth Development

Sensory tools for youth, including visual schedule information

Collection information

• Circulation kits cheat sheet - what to do with kits that have missing items
• iPage replace instructions
• Kit creation - a tool to workshop ideas for circulating and internal kits
• Evaluating circulating kits

Reader's Advisory Resources

• Multcolib Early Childhood lists
• Multcolib Families lists
• Multcolib Kids lists
• Multcolib Teens lists
• Best places to hear about new books for kids and teens-- internal crowd sourced document that includes how to access SLJ, Booklist and other journals
• Reading level systems : Accelerated Reader, Fry, Flesch-Kincaid, Lexile, Teach Book Wizard
• We Need Diverse Books
• ALSC (Assoc for Library Service to Children) booklists
• The Hub (YALSA-Young Adult Library Services Assoc)
• Reading Rants
• YALSA Teen Book Finder
• YABC (Young Adult Book Center)