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Urban teens in the library research and practice

Agosto, Denise E. (Added Author). Hughes-Hassell, Sandra. (Added Author).

Summary: This groundbreaking book is relevant to all librariansworking with urban teens and looking for ways toreach out to them.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0838910157 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780838910153 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0838997430 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780838997437 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 208 p.) : ill.
    remote
    electronic resource
  • Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association, c2010.

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General Note:
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.].
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Subject: Young adults' libraries -- United States
Urban youth -- Books and reading -- United States
Libraries and metropolitan areas -- United States
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries
Libraries and metropolitan areas
Libraries and teenagers -- United States
Young adults' libraries
Internet in young adults' libraries -- United States
Internet in young adults' libraries
Libraries and teenagers
Urban youth -- Books and reading
United States
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