Urban teens in the library : research and practice / edited by Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agosto, Denise E.

Hughes-Hassell, Sandra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young adults' libraries--United States.

Young adults' libraries.

Libraries and teenagers--United States.

Libraries and teenagers.

Libraries and metropolitan areas--United States.

Libraries and metropolitan areas.

Internet in young adults' libraries--United States.

Internet in young adults' libraries.

Urban youth--Books and reading--United States.

Urban youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : American Library Association, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking book is relevant to all librarians working with urban teens and looking for ways to reach out to them.

Contents:

Who are urban teens, and what does "urban" mean, anyway? / Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Moving beyond the stereotypes: seeing urban teenagers as individuals / Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Lewis Hassell, and Denise E. Agosto

Revamping library services to meet urban teens' everyday life information needs and preferences / Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Developing a leisure reading program that is relevant and responsive to the lives of urban teenagers : insights from research / Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Street lit: before you can recommend it, you have to understand it / Vanessa J. Irvin Morris, with Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Urban teens, online social networking, and library services / June Abbas and Denise E. Agosto

Urban teens and their use of public libraries / Denise E. Agosto

Public library websites and urban teenagers' health information needs / Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Dana Hanson-Baldauf

Spacing out with young adults: translating YA space concepts into practice / Anthony Bernier

Youth development and evaluation: lessons from "Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development" / Elaine Meyers

The loft at Imaginon: a new-generation library for urban teens / Michele Gorman, Amy Wyckoff, and Rebecca L. Buck

Before it's reading, it's writing: urban teens as authors in the public library / Autumn Winters and Elizabeth J. Gregg

Following and leading teens online: using digital library services to reach urban teens / Kara Reuter

-et al.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8389-9019-3

1-283-14797-1

9786613147974

0-8389-9018-5

0-8389-9743-0

OCLC:

567444293