Youth Leadership Council

Youth Leadership Council (YLC)

Do you like public speaking or want to get better at it? The YLC serves as a junior speaker’s bureau for teens age 13-19.

Help the library improve its service for the next generation! Consider joining the Youth Leadership Council (YLC) and help Oakland improve its service to young people!

YLC members gain valuable experience supporting the library by meeting and interviewing library officials and learning about how a large public service organization makes decisions and deals with change. Members of the YLC also represent the Library at community and national functions.

Members of the YLC with State of California Librarian
Susan Hildreth on Library Legislative Day, 2007

Members of the YLC with author of
“Mistress of Spices” Chitra Divakaruni

Come check out what the YLC does by coming to one of our meetings. Bring a friend! We meet from 11 am to 1 pm on the third Saturday of every month in Room 219 in the Magazines and Newspapers area of the Main Library. Snacks are served! For more information, contact YLC Coordinator Jessi Snow at (510) 238-7233 or jsnow@oaklandlibrary.org.