Nashville, TN: Nashville Public Library Foundation

Nashville Public Library, in Tennessee, will begin planning a Learning Lab to support a city-wide focus on youth and move youth beyond exposure and initial engagement with media, information, and technologies to activities of production, learning, and expertise-building. The planning team will be joined by teen constituents and volunteers, teen T.O.T.A.L. (Totally Outstanding Teen Advocates for the Library) staff, and professionals from Nashville’s vibrant creative community to ensure that both the environment and offerings of the learning lab align with current research on teen learning and engage middle- and high-school teens in meaningful, relevant ways. The library will use the Youth Speaks Nashville program as a model for effective engagement.