Michele Gorman (2)

Two excellent teen public librarians have combined their talents to produce a major and practical guide for interesting teens in libraries and their programming. The pair begin with the major ideas of teen services and understanding the teen as a human being (is that an oxymoron?) then covering ideas for working with the group, the collections to build, teaching them information literacy, booktalking, programming, space and promotion, using technology, involving the teens themselves in the services, and ending with a chapter on issues that one is likely to encounter. This book is a likely candidate for a teen course in graduate library school and its value to teacher librarians is to understand ways that public librarians are likely to design their services so that the school library media program can fold into and address a comprehensive approach to this age group. The CD contains many usable forms and ideas for reproduction… (plus d'informations)