Library Materials and Services for Teen Girls (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series)

ISBN: 0274967073

Author: O'Dell, Katie

Condition: New

Libraries can define their service goals to better serve and empower teen girls. This book shows how you can make a difference in your community by establishing partnerships with organizations, offering developmentally appropriate programming, and providing timely reader's advisory services tailored to this population. A short history of girl power, collection development guidelines, library programming ideas, and issues regarding girls and technology, volunteering, collaboration, and outreach are provided. An introduction, epilogue, bibliography, and index complete the book.Make a difference in your community: improve your library services to teen girls! This book describes how libraries can define their service goals to better serve-and even empower-young women. Author O'Dell describes how to establish partnerships with organizations, offer developmentally appropriate programming, and provide timely reader's advisory services.Everything you need to know is presented here: a short history of girl power, collection development guidelines, library programming ideas, and issues regarding girls and technology, volunteering, collaboration, and outreach. An introduction, epilogue, bibliography, and index complete the book.