Transforming young adult services / written and edited by Anthony Bernier ; foreword by John M. Budd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budd, John, 1953- author of foreword.

Contributor:

Bernier, Anthony, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young adults' libraries.

Young adults' libraries--United States.

Libraries and teenagers.

Libraries and teenagers--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : ALA-Neal Schuman, 2020.

Summary:

"This revised and expanded second edition updates a provocative collection of 14 expert contributions to the debate inaugurated in 2013 addressing LIS's historic avoidance in defining and envisioning its young adult users by offering readers a diverse set of possible responses to how LIS should define YAs for its own professional, institutional, and research purposes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword to the first edition / by John M. Budd

Preface : Young adult services at the crossroads / by Anthony Bernier

Introduction : Making the case for transforming / by Anthony Bernier

Envisaging young adult librarianship from a teen

centered perspective / by Denise E. Agosto

Diverse identity in anxious times : young adult literature and contemporary culture / by Karen Coats

Students or learners? Conceptualizing youth in school libraries / by Mary Ann Harlan

Misfits, loners, immature students, and reluctant readers : librarianship in the construction of teen readers of comics / by Lucia Cedeira Serantes

Identity at odds : the sometimes conflicting viewpoints about young adults' rights in libraries / by Cherie Givens

Situating youth voice : moving from understanding to action through critical theory / by Jeanie Austin

Crossing over : the advent of the adultescent / by Michael Cart

Storytelling, young adults, and three paradoxes / by Kate McDowell

"The library is like her house" : reimagining youth of color in LIS discourses / by Kafi D. Kumasi

Beyond coaching : copiloting with young adults / by Wendy Schaetzel Lesko

LIS's Vision of young adults : some historical roots for current theories and practice / by Mary K. Chelton

Tribalism versus citizenship : are youth increasingly unwelcome in libraries? / by Mike Males

Imagining today's young adults in LIS : moving forward with critical youth studies / by Paulette Rothbauer

Moving beyond YAs as "citizens" : the promise of membership / by Anthony Bernier

Conclusion : Membership's promise for praxis / by Anthony Bernier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Transforming young adult services

ISBN:

9780838917749

0838917747

OCLC:

1107062147