Transit Lounge is an arts development program for young people aged 15 to 25 years. Services include: skills development workshops, a fortnightly newsletter, showcase opportunities and career pathways advice.

Interestingly, it is Moreton Bay Regional Council's Library Services Unit that hosts Transit Lounge Caboolture - the first iteration of a Transit Lounge program outside of a capital city context. This runs contrary to the more obvious host choices such as cultural development, youth development or community development.

With the vision "a community that is changed by the creativity of its young people" and the mission "supporting young people to become cultural entrepreneurs", Transit Lounge doesn't have an agenda of "getting more young people into libraries". However its benefits to the Library Services Unit have been numerous, including:

* activation of libraries as meeting spaces
* increased numbers of young people using libraries
* positive connections between young people and library staff
* high-quality youth programming that is 'beyond recreation and education'
* animation of libraries as cultural spaces
* increased community networks

Additionally the Library Service has benefited by having an 'outsider' within its walls. The ongoing presence of a different perspective and a different way of doing things has changed the Library Service from within.

What motivated Library Services to adopt this 'out of the box' program in the first place? And with the recent employment of a Young People's Programming Officer within the Library Services Unit, has transit lounge infected its host? Can transit lounge continue to spread accross the District and what are the chances of it going further into other regional areas, other libraries or even beyond? As the role of libraries evolves programs such as Transit lounge show us how to do things differently and how to deliver innovative youth engagement programs that reinvigorate our spaces and libraries.