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Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library : Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services / Kelsey Keyes and Ellie Dworak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keyes, Kelsey, author.
- Dworak, Ellie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic libraries--Space utilization.
- Academic libraries.
- Libraries and teenage parents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages) : Illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Association of College and Research Libraries, [2024]
- Summary:
- Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despite these hurdles, there are many others who have not been able to find a way. Supporting Student Parents is a guide to engaging with and aiding the student parents in your libraries and leading the charge in making your institutions more family friendly.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Prologues
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Higher Education Landscape
- Chapter 1
- Discovering Student Parents
- Chapter 2
- Pieces of the Puzzle
- Chapter 3
- The Uphill Battle, Part 1: Getting By
- Chapter 4
- The Uphill Battle, Part 2: Officialdom
- Part 2. The Role of Academic Libraries
- Chapter 5
- What We Know
- Chapter 6
- The Changing Landscape
- Chapter 7
- Building a Space for Student Parents
- Chapter 8
- Graduate Student Parents
- Part 3. Looking Outward
- Chapter 9
- What Others Are Doing
- Chapter 10
- What Four-Year Institutions Can Learn from Community and For-Profit Institutions
- Chapter 11
- International Examples
- Part 4. Evaluating Needs and Measuring Success
- Chapter 12
- A Look Under the Hood
- Chapter 13
- Attending to Outliers
- Appendices
- Appendix A. Abbreviations
- Appendix B. STEM Backpacks
- Appendix C. Family Study Room
- Appendix D. Boise State Student Survey Methodology
- Appendix E: 2022 Boise State Parenting Students Survey Instrument
- Appendix F. Matching Assessment Tools to Questions
- Appendix G. Getting to Answers: A Worksheet to Guide Assessment with Parenting Students
- Acknowledgments
- Author Biographies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798892555524
- OCLC:
- 1423131857
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