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The Guy-Friendly YA Library
Serving Male Teens
 Series: Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series
 Rollie James Welch

1-59158-270-9/978-1-59158-270-0

Description
Re-design and upgrade your collection and services to attract male teens, as well as females, to the library. With this guide, you'll learn about reading habits of young men, male-friendly collection development with fiction and nonfiction materials, teen advisory boards, teen area design and display, programs that bring male teens into the library, homework services, diversity of male teens, and how to redefine library policies, procedures, and attitudes to create an environment where male teens thrive. Filled with insights, anecdotes, practical guidelines, and tips that show how to make the library a facility where male teens feel welcome and comfortable.

Reviews:
-Starting with the important characteristics of books that appeal to male teens, the author discusses the type of genre reading this group is interested in...By discussing what doesn't work for teens, Welch examines how to engage teens through programming and how to develop gender-friendly teen advisory boards.Although other books cover some of this same area, none gives the insights Welch provides for focusing his book on the male teenager....The material in this book ought to be read by any librarian who comes in contact with teens in the library. The author suggests ways for public and school librarians to work together and how school librarians can specifically engage this age group. This book will give the experienced librarian new and fresh ideas, and the new librarian a great strategy to follow in building a guy-friendly library. —Reference & User Services Quarterly
About the Author
Rollie James Welch is Teen Coordinator of the Cleveland Public Library System. He has worked as a librarian, mostly with teens, for 26 years in both school and public library settings. A frequent presenter at local library workshops throughout his home state of Ohio, Rollie has served on the YALSA book selection committees, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and Best Books for Young Adults. He has also chaired VOYA's Top Shelf for Middle School Fiction committee. He is a reviewer for Kirkus, VOYA, Library Journal and The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.
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