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Title New directions for library service to young adults / Young Adult Library Services Association with Patrick Jones ; edited by Linda Waddle
Published Chicago : American Library Association, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (v, 146 pages)
Contents Directions: Background -- Purpose -- Planning your trip -- Maps: Twelve goals -- Ten core values -- Ten essential arguments -- Two roads to travel: New planning for results -- Information power -- Itinerary for quality library services to young adults: Administration -- Collections -- Programs -- Services -- Electronic resources -- Facilities and hours -- Staff -- Reaching the destination: success stories -- Successful journey: outcomes -- Appendixes: Service responses from The new planning for results: a streamlined approach -- 40 developmental assets from the Search Institute -- Young adult services trainers offer their services to school and public libraries -- Strategic plan of the Young Adult Library Services Association -- Normal Adolescent development from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology -- Toward a blueprint for youth: making positive youth development a national priority -- Guidelines for youth participation -- Nine information literacy standards for student learning from the American Association of School Librarians -- Excerpt from adolescent literacy: a position statement from the International Reading Association -- Young adults deserve the best: competencies for librarians serving young adults
Summary Picking up where the best-selling Bare Bones Young Adult Services left off, this exciting new book has an ambitious intent--to help libraries, with their communities, develop their teens into healthy, competent, and caring adults. Applying the tools in New Planning for Results to the goals outlined in Information Power, YALSA has teamed up with writer Patrick Jones to provide direction on how to deliver YA service that is proactive and holistic. Approaching the service mission holistically means linking the developmental needs and assets of these young adults with the overarching goals of the l
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index
Notes English
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Subject Young adults' libraries -- United States
Libraries and teenagers -- United States
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries.
Libraries and teenagers
Young adults' libraries
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Jones, Patrick, 1961-
Waddle, Linda L
Young Adult Library Services Association.
ISBN 0838999050
9780838999059
9780838908273
0838908276
Other Titles Library service to young adults