ISBN: 9781591585657    Publisher: ABC-CLIO Year of publishing: 2007     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 150        

Learn about the world of today's teenagers and how to communicate with this very important segment of your library's audience. Gather ideas for enlisting help from teachers and school librarians in planning programming to bring teens to the library. Examples of "real life" reference interviews follow a list of tools to have at the teen reference desk. The essential elements of building teen collections and reader's advisory services are presented with ideas for creating a teen-friendly library. The information in this book will be useful to librarians in smaller libraries and those assigned to teen services as a part of their other duties.An entry in the "Crash Course" series, this is a companion to the "Crash Course in Children's Services". It covers services for the teen years with emphasis on how to talk with teens and how to provide exciting programming to attract them to the library.
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Donna P. Miller is Library Media Coordinator for the Mesa County Valley School District No. 51 in Grand Junction, Colorado. She has 20 years library experience in schools and public libraries, and is the author of The Standards-Based Integrated Library Program.
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