Are you the next Young Library Champion?

An exciting new youth volunteer programme invites youth aged eight and up to join the team, earn rewards and help their local library.

Young Library Champs is a volunteer advocacy programme designed to give youth the opportunity to contribute their skills and talents in order to enhance children's activities and programmes within the library.

The library is a fantastic place to learn new skills too; and youth volunteers will learn many aspects of librarianship as they work their way through the programme. Our children's librarians have designed a series of library-related challenges for youth to work through in their own time and at weekly club days in the library. Incentive rewards are earned for every task completed.

Reading is an essential part of the programme too; and youth will log, share and review their reading throughout the term.

Once the Young Library Champ has completed all their challenges, they may choose to be facilitators, helping the next group of youth volunteers, or they may go through the programme again.

If you know of a young person who has the potential to be a Young Library Champion, please have them contact their local library for more information, or come along to our first YLC Club Day on Tuesday 28th April at 4pm at Thames, Tairua and Mercury Bay Libraries.

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