The article presents a selection of EIFL-PLIP case studies of innovative library youth services from South Africa, Uganda, Kenya and Ghana. It discusses challenges facing innovative public libraries using information and communication technology (ICT), and the ways in which youth, communities, librarians and librarians benefit from innovative services.

The article was published in LIASA-in-Touch (newsletter of the Library and Information Association of South Africa) in December 2013, volume 14, Issue 4.