Internship to the Future: Hiring Paid Teen Interns at Your Library

Library interns, especially teen interns, provide a new way to connect with the community your library serves. They provide a consistency, reliability, and interest that you can’t always count on volunteers to have. Internships let you develop a one-on-one relationship with members of the community, providing mentorship and a pathway to a career in librarianship for young members of the community.

Internships can also be complicated, especially if your library has never had a paid internship before. Come learn from librarians who successfully managed paid internships at their library. We’ll discuss hiring and maintaining internships, setting acceptable tasks, and workloads, and most importantly, share different ways to get the money to pay for them. Stay afterward for Q&A with our seasoned intern managers.

Today’s interns may become tomorrow’s coworkers: help raise that next generation.