New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) and its partners, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Borough Public Library, will create a set of digital tools for homework help that will be responsive to young people’s information-gathering tendencies, research needs, and expectations. These activities will implement the findings of a successful 2007 IMLS Collaborative Planning Grant awarded to the three library systems called, The Information-Gathering Techniques and Online Behaviors of Tweens and Teens. The suite of tools, called Homework NYC widgets, will be used by students to successfully complete their homework and will provide students with a more convenient and useful method of getting authoritative online homework assistance. The final product will be a set of tools that other organizations seeking to engage young people with library resources in a virtual environment will be able to use.