Outreach & Recruitment: A Teen Reading Lounge Webinar

April 3, 2017
TEEN READING LOUNGE AT HUNTINGDON VALLEY LIBRARY WITH AUTHOR ALEX LONDON. PHOTO CREDIT: MARK GARVIN

Outreach & Recruitment: A Teen Reading Lounge Webinar

Learn how libraries and youth organizations successfully conduct outreach to recruit young people through this conversation on best practices, challenges and concrete strategies. 

This webinar on Outreach & Recruitment was produced by PHC and  moderated by Valerie Adams-Bass, Assistant Professor of Youth and Social Innovations in the Department of Human Services at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education.

Guest speakers include:

  • Kelly Rottmund, Teen Services Coordinator for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Kelly manages CLP’s system of 38 Teen Specialists across the Library’s 19 locations. She has been a Teen Librarian for eight years, and was previously the manager of the Teen Department at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Main Library and the Teen Librarian at the Sewickley Public Library, which is outside of Pittsburgh.

  • Rachel Roberts, Program Director & Team Leader for Public Health Management Corporation’s Youth Educational Social Services. Rachel manages and trains PHMC’s extensive network of OST programs providers which includes more 250 programs in 70 locations across Philadelphia.

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