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| Photo Credit: Annapolis Valley Regional Library |
The Annapolis Valley Regional Library has a sections for teens called the "Teen Zone" the main page has quick links to "My account", "Ask Us" as well as "Get a Library Card". There are also links for "Teen Council", "Girl Power", and "March Break 2015" as well as a list of other activities and latest news for the library. Along the side of the main page there is a small list of new teen books. I clicked through to the Girl Power page to see what it was about. It is a program for any girl that is age 10-15 they do a variety of things, they talk, they do crafts, write, surf the web bake play games among other things. I don't understand why it wouldn't just be marketed to all teens instead of making it just for girls however. The Teen Council is for teens who are 13-17 years old who meet at the Kentville Library on Sunday afternoons. From the looks of their website they hold parties for the teens as well as other things throughout the year.
The main page of the teen section doesn't seem like it would be appealing to anyone much less to a teen. When you click through to some of the sections of the website you get taken off of the library's website and to wordpress sites. These look like someone made an effort to make the sites more appealing to teens. The Girl Power site is clearly directed towards girls but it doesn't look like they are targeting the younger end or the older end of the age bracket. The Teen Zone website looks like they tried to be neither too "girly" or too boyish. They chose to stick with black and grey with red accents and the pages look like loose leaf. The fact that they made it so it wouldn't seem to be leaning toward either group as well as posting pictures of both on the site might
make new teens wish to join in.
Rating: 3.5/5
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