Welcome to Teen Services at MCLS!

Our libraries allow teens a place for building social relationships and leadership skills. We want to provide positive experiences by encouraging you to explore & expand your interests. Whether in our teen areas, meeting rooms or our idea labs, all teens ages 12–18 are encouraged to visit our spaces!

Online Help Through Chat

Brainfuse HelpNow! Access with your library card number. Sponsored by The Library Foundation of Martin County, Inc. with support from Nina Haven Scholarships, Inc.

Brainfuse is a tutoring platform that allows students live access 24/7 for Homework Help. It is a chat format. Students will be able to upload their homework into the platform to work with a tutor live in real time on their assignments. A transcript of the session is saved so students can go back and revisit the lesson. The whiteboard feature has numerous tools to do math equations and to do other tasks to enhance learning and subject mastery. View an introductory video about Brainfuse HelpNow.

Services & Resources

Additional HOMEWORK Resources:

Using your free Martin County Library Card, you can sign up and access the these online homework help resources and databases to learn something new or do research for your classes and homework! Need help? You can always ask for help at the library or use the contact us link at the bottom of this page.  

ONE-ON-ONE TECH HELP:

The Martin County Library System offers one-on-one tech time! These 30-minute technology appointments are to help you with specific tech-related questions. Learn More About One-on-One Tech Appointments

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Book Reviews:

For school and college requirements, you can earn one (1) hour of volunteer time for each book review submission! All books count including graphic novels, eBooks, and Audiobooks. Create an account in our Beanstack Application to write your reviews, track your reading, and receive recommendations. 

College and Career Readiness Challenge:

Wondering about colleges, jobs, financial aid, scholarships, vocational careers, or just where to start when thinking about your future? Participating in this College and Career Readiness Challenge will help you learn more about what you want to do after high school and what you need to do to accomplish those goals. Between September and March, teens aged 11 to 18 can challenge themselves to complete as many activities as they want about college and career preparation and earn up to 40 volunteer hours while doing it! Create an account in Beanstack to access the challenge and start your college and career journey!

Teen Community of Service: 

This is a self-directed volunteer program where teens ages 11 to 18 can earn up to 25 hours of community service each month from May to August! Teen Community of Service helps teens learn about local and national subjects and create projects that give back to our Martin County community. For more details and to register for upcoming Teen Community of Service events, view our Teen Events Calendar (be sure to select May through August). 

Shelving materials & helping in idea labs:

If you want to help shelving materials in one of our library branch locations or help out in one of our awesome idea lab spaces, complete and submit our Library Volunteer Application.

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Submit online book reviews to earn volunteer hours and a chance at a grand prize! Get full details.

Whether in our teen areas, open meeting rooms, or our idea labs, come visit our spaces to access our equipment.

Check out our tech here!

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A list of community and national resources coming soon!

your opinion matters to us

Teen Suggestions Survey

Your opinion matters! Help us improve our spaces for teens at the library and let us know what kind of activities or services you are most interested in. Take a few minutes to complete our survey!

Contact Us

For questions or more information about teen services and programs at the library, contact our Library Teen Specialist!