Serving Urban Teens (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series)

摘要

Urban teenagers are a socially conscious group, technologically aware, highly diverse and apparently uncontrolled. These urban teenagers need access to libraries and library services for homework help, study and research, computer use, socialising, browsing the books and even for listening to music, to list a few of the many reasons. Brehm-Heeger's guide to serving this diverse and demanding group of users explores current, effective models for public library service provision to teenagers. She also considers future possibilities and leads her readers to the necessary resources and tools with which to achieve success. Her recommendations include staffing solutions, partnership suggestions, programme ideas, technological collection proposals, training models and ideas and, importantly, tackling space issues. The guide is handy, succinct, relevant, timely and packed full of accessible and achievable ideas.