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Youth Services: Teen Librarians

Ramapo Catskill Library System Youth Services provides support to young adult and children’s librarians throughout all of Orange, Rockland, Sullivan and southern Ulster counties. By offering services and advocacy through a combined system wide effort, RC

Upcoming Meeting Dates

Teen Librarians 2023-24 Meeting Schedule 

Meetings hybrid unless otherwise noted. A Zoom link will go out to the Teen Librarians listserv the morning of the meeting. 

The Battle of the Books committee will meet at 9:00, prior to the Teen Librarians meeting. Information about Battle of the Books meetings will be sent to the BookBattle listserv.  

Discussion topics are subject to change 


January 12 at 2:00 (snow date January 19):  
Mock Printz book awards at RCLS 
 

February 5 at 10:00 
Topic: Teens and Emergency Preparedness 
Location: Tuxedo 
 

March, TBD: Summer Reading Workshop 
 

April 1 at 10:00 
Topic: Trending 
Location: TBD 

 

June 3 at 10:00 
End of year Luncheon 
Location: New City Library 

Teentober!

Teen Tech Week and Teen Read Week have been replaced with TeenTober!

Click here to learn more about it.

Conferences & Conventions

Jan. 19-22, 2024 LibLearnX @ Baltimore, MA

Jan 22, 2024 RCLS Teen Prof. Dev Day @ Marvel Comics NYC

April 19, 2024 NYLA Youth Services Section (YSS) Spring Conference @ Clayton, NY

May (?), 2024 Day of Dialog @ TBD, NYC

June 27- July 2nd, 2024 ALA Annual Conference @ San Diego, CA

Nov 6th-9th, 2024 NYLA Annual Conference @ Syracuse, NY

Teen Librarian's Group Officers

CO-CHAIR
Karen Golding
Head of Young Adult Services
Goshen Public Library & Historical Society
(845) 294-6606 ext. 105
karen@goshenpubliclibrary.org
 
CO-CHAIR

Katrina Holfeld
Head of Teen Services
Valley Cottage Library
845-268-7700 ext. 136
kholfeld@rcls.org

 
SECRETARY
Jennifer Cohen
Reference & Teen Librarian
Suffern Free Library
845-357-1237
jcohen@rcls.org