Resources

Summary Presentation (ppt, 58.5Kb)
Short powerpoint presentation outlining Fulfilling their Potential

The Library Offer to Young People (pdf, 29kb) is based on extensive research and consultation with young people and is underpinned by the principles of Fulfilling their Potential. It represents a national aspiration for work with young people. It aims to challenge libraries to look again at the services they offer to young people and demonstrate libraries’ role in achieving better outcomes for them. 

Young people designing and shaping library spaces

Dudley Graffiti Project (Word, 51.1kb)
Young people designing the outside of their library at Dudley Wood

Shaping library spaces (Word, 77.6kb)
Involving young people in planning and designing library spaces

Young people planning and running library activities

aSPARations cafe, Lyme Regis (Word, 51.3kb)
A library linked cafe and youth centre

Book prize judges (Word, 61kb)
Young people to join the judging panel of the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2006

Making websites (Word, 52.5kb)
A case study from Derbyshire

Newham - Peer Motivators (Word, 57.2kb)
Young people acting as advocates, reading promoters, marketing executives and youth workers, within the library context.

Newham - The Gate (Word, 51.5kb)
Special library evening sessions organised by Peer Motivators

Reading groups:1 (Word, 66.9kb)
A case study from Bedfordshire

Reading groups:2 (Word, 51.9kb)
Case study from Sedgefield

Reading promoters (Word, 61.6kb)
A case study featuring the Book Pushers in Derbyshire

Using music to involve young people (Word, 65.2kb)
Case studies from Leeds and Suffolk

Young adult sessions at Beaminster Library (Word, 40.4kb)
A case study from Beaminster in Dorset

Young people selecting stock

Involving young people in stock selection (word, 78.9kb)
Guidance and key points for involving young people in stock selection

Book shopping in Sheffield (Word, 40.2kb)
A case study about involving young people at a Sheffield youth centre in library stock selection

Stock selection in Birmingham (Word, 66kb)
Young people purchasing books for local libraries

Stock selection in Cambridgeshire (Word, 52.4kb)
A case study: young people choosing and buying library stock