Make Room for Teens!
A Guide to Developing Teen Spaces in the Library
Series: Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series
Michael Garrett Farrelly
1-59158-566-X/978-1-59158-566-4
Description
Creating a new teen space? Looking to do an extreme makeover on your current YA room? Don't get started without this invaluable guide that can help you do it right! With an informal, upbeat approach that emphasizes best practices, the book will help you clear all the hurdles and avoid the pitfalls, beginning with concerns and challenges (such as pressure from within the library) and ending with the creation of a dynamic and flexible space that can be continually renewed. From ideas about location and financing, suggestions for furniture and decor, and tips on collections and computers, to advice on meeting the unique needs of this diverse population and assessment-this guide has it all.The current demographic swell of the teen population has caused librarians to reconsider, revamp, and revitalize young adult services. In many cases, this involves creating or enhancing a Young Adult Room or Teen Space. This guide is intended to help young adult librarians, as well as supervisors and administrators, through the process of creating or improving library space for teens. Drawing on best practices and his own experience, the author points out key issues, concerns, challenges, and pitfalls of the endeavor; and he also provides librarians with tools to create and implement a vision.He begins by addressing concerns and challenges (such as pressure from within the library) to teens and teen spaces; moves on to describe how to create a dynamic and flexible space that can be continually assessed and renewed. Topics include ideas for location and financing, furniture and decor, collections and computers, and meeting the unique needs of this diverse population. Filled with anecdotes and examples of best practices, this book offers an engaging, upbeat approach to a topic of vital interest to today's YA librarians
About the Author
MICHAEL GARRETT FARRELLY is a former Youth Services Librarian, who has worked in both public and school libraries.
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