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Guest Speakers

Books, Essays, and Articles

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The Duchess Harris Collection

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Duchess Harris

Duchess Harris is a Professor of American Studies at Macalester College.  She is also an affiliated member of the Political Science Department and co-directs the Congress to Campus Program with Professor Andrew Latham.


Her research has been published in the London School of Economics and Political Science Review of Books, American Quarterly, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, Litigation News, and the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal.

She has studied or lectured at: Ibadan, Oxford, Lund, Universidad de Seville, Miyagi, University of Auckland, Universite Nacional de Education a Distancia, Madrid, University of Queensland, Brisbane, American University, Beirut and the Sorbonne.

Reaching Teens and Tweens Guest Panel 

We are excited to bring a panel of tween and teen library staff to Camp Read-A-Lot this year.  The panel is made up of library leaders from southwestern Minnesota who work with children and teens.  They'll be talking all about the ups and downs of working with youth and answering our, and your, questions.​

Smiling Teen Boy

Some of the questions we will be asking our panel include...

  • Teens are notoriously difficult to engage in any event or activity.  What strategies have you used to bring teens into your library or to your event?

  • Teens are busy and often work after school.  What time of day and day of the week have worked well when scheduling programming or planning an activity?

  • What trends are you seeing in YA books?

  • What YA genres or types of books are popular in your library?

  • What has been the best program you have ever had with your teen patrons and why do you think it was so successful?

  • Where do you find your ideas when planning programming?

  • What resources do you use to guide your purchasing decisions?

  • What is the one thing you would tell a new youth library person that is crucial to working with tweens and teens?

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