Higgins, S: YOUTH SERVICES & PUBLIC LIB

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84334-156-7
Verlag: Woodhead Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

Reihe: Chandos Information Professional Series

Youth Services and Public Libraries offers strategies to match the information needs and wants of children and young adults in public libraries and translates these into knowledge for providing relevant services. The latest trends in service provision are covered within the context of appropriate management, programming and marketing of services. The book is grounded in the principles of public library services to children and young adults everywhere.


- Links practical application of library programming to theoretical foundations of service
- Illustrates concepts with reference to the developmental needs of children and young adults
- Describes how to implement library policies which recommend, design, direct, supervise and evaluate active youth services programs

Autoren/Hrsg.

Higgins, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliotheks- und Auskunftssdienste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Principles of library service. Part 2 Practices. Part 3 Professionalism.

Über Autor(innen)

Higgins, Susan
Susan Higgins is an Assistant Professor with the University of Southern Mississippi School of Library and Information Science. She has worked at NTU University in Singapore, and Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. She has previously published a book entitled Youth Services and Public Libraries, which has been translated into Serbian. Her research interests include academic and international librarianship, and youth services and education for Library and Information Science.

Susan E. Higgins is Assistant Professor with the School of Library and Information Science, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She has taught in Australia at Charles Sturt University’s School of Library and Information Studies and in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University, School of Communication and Information. She was employed as a Director of Children’s Services, Pine Mountain Regional Library, Manchester, Georgia, a Supervisory Children’s Librarian for Maricopa County Library System, Phoenix, Arizona and a Children’s Librarian in Mesa, Arizona for the City of Mesa Public Library.