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Lesley S.J. Farmer

Reference and Information Sources and Services for Children and Young Adults

Reference and Information Sources and Services for Children and Young Adults

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Reference and information services are essential for young people, and this book helps librarians optimize these resources and services by assessing youth communities, determining information needs and behaviors, developing and maintaining age-appropriate collections, optimizing access, interacting with youth, curating and producing products, dealing with legal and ethical issues, and planning effective services.

Format: Hardback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 07 September 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield


Reference and information services are essential for today's young people, and librarians can ensure that they are appropriately responsive to children and teens by analyzing key features of these services in school and public library environments. This book provides guidance in assessing youth communities, determining youths information needs and information behaviors, developing and maintaining age-appropriate reference collections, optimizing physical and virtual access to reference and information sources, interacting with youth and facilitating their reference and information literacy skills, curating and producing reference and information products, dealing with relevant legal and ethical issues, and planning effective library reference and information services for youth. Chapter sidebar examples provide food for thought.


Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538163184

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