Urban teens in the library : research and practice / / edited by Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 214 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Who are urban teens, and what does "urban" mean, anyway? / Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
  • Moving beyond the stereotypes: seeing urban teenagers as individuals / Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Lewis Hassell, and Denise E. Agosto
  • Revamping library services to meet urban teens' everyday life information needs and preferences / Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
  • Developing a leisure reading program that is relevant and responsive to the lives of urban teenagers : insights from research / Sandra Hughes-Hassell
  • Street lit: before you can recommend it, you have to understand it / Vanessa J. Irvin Morris, with Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
  • Urban teens, online social networking, and library services / June Abbas and Denise E. Agosto
  • Urban teens and their use of public libraries / Denise E. Agosto
  • Public library websites and urban teenagers' health information needs / Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Dana Hanson-Baldauf
  • Spacing out with young adults: translating YA space concepts into practice / Anthony Bernier
  • Youth development and evaluation: lessons from "Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development" / Elaine Meyers
  • The loft at Imaginon: a new-generation library for urban teens / Michele Gorman, Amy Wyckoff, and Rebecca L. Buck
  • Before it's reading, it's writing: urban teens as authors in the public library / Autumn Winters and Elizabeth J. Gregg
  • Following and leading teens online: using digital library services to reach urban teens / Kara Reuter
  • -et al.