Contributing to the South Park Library Goal to Increase Engagement between South Park Teens and Library Resources

Student Nurses: Andi Rasmussen, Emily Galeotti, Lucinda Lu, Teresa Wu, Vivek Naik

Clinical Faculty: Ellie Marsh-Trujillo, MN, RN

Guided by interviews with our community partner, Lead Librarian Lupine Miller, we engaged in several qualitative and quantitative data collection activities to contribute to the Library’s need to strengthen teenage engagement with available South Park Library resources. Utilizing an adapted and remote windshield survey, the development and use of an Interview Tool, and an online literature search on existing methods used to enhance teenage engagement, we developed a guiding tool named “Enhancing Teenage Engagement in Libraries” which offers librarians strategies to pique and maintain teen interest, while accounting for the social determinants of health.