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| Foreword |
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Glossary: The Language of the LST (Librarian Serving Teens) |
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The Philosophy of Service to Young Adults |
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What Is a Vision of Service for Connecting Young Adults and Libraries? |
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2 | (1) |
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What Are Six Key Goals for Reaching This Vision? |
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What Are the Core Values That Drive Our Work? |
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7 | (1) |
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What Do We Mean When We Speak of These Core Values? |
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8 | (1) |
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How Do You Know If Your Teen Program Is Successful? |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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10 | (1) |
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10 | (3) |
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Understanding the Audience |
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What Are the Stages of Adolescence? |
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14 | (1) |
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Is the Teen Brain a Work in Progress? |
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15 | (1) |
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How Does Adolescent Brain Development Impact Your Job as an LST? |
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16 | (1) |
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How Do the Developmental Needs of Teens Relate to Libraries? |
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17 | (8) |
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What Is Wrong with These Damn Kids? |
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25 | (3) |
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So What Are Some Strategies for Dealing with Disruptive Behavior? |
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28 | (4) |
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What Do Young Adults Want and Need from Libraries? |
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32 | (1) |
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What Do Young Adults Need in Their Lives? |
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33 | (5) |
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38 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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38 | (1) |
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Recommended Sources for Further Reading |
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38 | (1) |
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39 | (14) |
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What Is the History of Library Services for Young Adults? |
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40 | (5) |
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Where Are Young Adult Services Now? |
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45 | (5) |
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Conclusion: What Is the Future of Young Adult Services? |
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50 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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51 | (1) |
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Recommended Sources for Further Reading |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (22) |
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So Are We Getting Anything Right in Customer Service to Teens? |
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54 | (1) |
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What Is the Ideal Customer-focused Library Service for Teenagers? |
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55 | (2) |
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What Does an Ideal Staff Member Who Works with Teens (Which Means Anyone Who Works in the Library) Look Like? |
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57 | (1) |
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What Skills Does an LST Need to Work with Teens? |
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57 | (3) |
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How Do You Construct Information Services to Provide Teens with a Positive Library Experience? |
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60 | (2) |
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What Does An Ideal Reference Transaction with a Teen Look Like? |
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62 | (7) |
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Is Customer Service with Teens Really That Bad? |
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69 | (3) |
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How Do You Train Other Staff to Provide Quality Customer Service to Teens? |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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74 | (1) |
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Recommended Sources for Further Reading |
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74 | (1) |
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75 | (30) |
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What Is Information Literacy? |
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75 | (1) |
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Why Is It Important for Teens to Be Information Literate? |
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76 | (1) |
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What Are the Information Literacy Standards? |
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77 | (1) |
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How Do You Incorporate the Information Literacy Standards into Practice with Teens? |
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78 | (2) |
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Why Is Teacher/Librarian Collaboration So Important in Developing Information Literacy Programs? |
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80 | (1) |
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How Do You Help Teens Solve an Information Problem? |
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80 | (1) |
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How Does the LST Integrate Information Problem-solving Processes in Everyday Interactions? |
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81 | (2) |
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Why Is Modeling So Important? |
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83 | (1) |
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How Is Technology a Component of Information Literacy? |
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84 | (1) |
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What Are the Core Information Literacy Skills That You Should Teach Teens? |
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85 | (7) |
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How Do You Teach Teens to Evaluate Web Sites? |
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92 | (1) |
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How Do Web 2.0 Tools Impact Information Literacy? |
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93 | (2) |
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How Should You Evaluate Information Literacy Skills? |
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95 | (1) |
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How Can Information Literacy Change the Way Teens See the Library? |
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95 | (1) |
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What Are Some Outstanding Libraries Actively Engaging Teens in Information Literacy? |
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96 | (5) |
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101 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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102 | (1) |
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102 | (3) |
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105 | (66) |
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What Are the Best Books for Teenagers? |
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105 | (2) |
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What Are the Reading Interests of Teens? |
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107 | (2) |
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Teens and Reading: Influences, Perceptions, Attitudes, and Expectations |
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109 | (6) |
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What Are the Reading Interests of Boys? |
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115 | (1) |
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How Do You Select the Best Books for Teenagers? |
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116 | (1) |
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What Kind of Teen Collection Do You Want to Build? |
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117 | (4) |
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How Do You Start Building a Collection for Teens? |
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121 | (34) |
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What Are the Best Selection Tools for Creating a Teen Collection? |
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155 | (2) |
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How Do You Maintain Your Teen Collection? |
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157 | (1) |
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Collection Development Concerns |
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158 | (10) |
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168 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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169 | (1) |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (24) |
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171 | (1) |
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Who Is the Audience for Booktalking? |
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171 | (1) |
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What Are the Top Ten Justifications for Booktalking? |
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172 | (2) |
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What Are the Models for Booktalking? |
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174 | (1) |
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What Are the Rules of Booktalking? |
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175 | (1) |
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What Are the Most Common Types of Booktalks? |
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176 | (1) |
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How Do You Write a Booktalk? |
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177 | (3) |
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How Do You Turn a Booktalk into a Performance? |
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180 | (1) |
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What Are Hooks on Which to Hang a Booktalk? |
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181 | (3) |
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Can Booktalking Be Learned, or Must an LST Be Born with That Gift? |
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184 | (1) |
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What Are the Elements of Booktalking Success? |
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184 | (2) |
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What Do You Need to Know to Schedule a Booktalk? |
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186 | (1) |
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How Do You Structure Your Booktalks into a Cohesive Presentation? |
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186 | (1) |
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What Are the Elements of a Successful Booktalk Presentation? |
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187 | (2) |
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What Does a Booktalk Actually Look Like? |
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189 | (4) |
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193 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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193 | (1) |
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193 | (2) |
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Outreach and Partnerships |
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195 | (28) |
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What Is Outreach and Who Is the Audience? |
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195 | (10) |
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What Kinds of Partnerships Can You Form? |
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205 | (10) |
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What Are Some Ideas for Developing New and Innovative Outreach Programs? |
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215 | (3) |
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What Are Some Best Practices/Models for Outreach and Partnerships? |
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218 | (2) |
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220 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (2) |
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223 | (40) |
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What Is Teen Programming and Why Is It Important in the Lives of Young People? |
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224 | (1) |
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How Is Programming for Teens Different from Programming for Children? |
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225 | (2) |
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What Are the Keys to Developing Successful Teen Programs? |
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227 | (1) |
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So How Do You Plan Teen Programming? |
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228 | (26) |
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How Do You Implement a Teen Program? |
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254 | (4) |
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How Do You Evaluate a Teen Program? |
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258 | (2) |
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What Are Examples of Successful Teen Programs? |
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260 | (1) |
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260 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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261 | (1) |
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Recommended Sources for Further Reading |
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261 | (2) |
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263 | (24) |
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What Are the Elements of Successful Teen Spaces? |
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263 | (8) |
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What About Virtual Library Spaces for Teens? |
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271 | (1) |
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How Do You Go About Creating a Plan for Promoting Your Library's Services for Teens? |
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271 | (2) |
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What Are Some Best Practices for Promoting Your Library's Materials and Events for Teens? |
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273 | (6) |
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What Are Some of the Most Outstanding Teen Spaces in Libraries? |
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279 | (6) |
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285 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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285 | (1) |
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Recommended Sources for Further Reading |
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286 | (1) |
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287 | (22) |
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Are We Raising Teens in Some Technological Utopia? |
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288 | (1) |
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How Can Libraries Capitalize on Teens' Use of Technology in Their Everyday Lives? |
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289 | (1) |
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What Is the Role of the LST in Today's Digital World? |
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290 | (2) |
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Is All of This Technology Actually ``Dumbing Down'' Teens? |
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292 | (1) |
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Why Should You Allow Teens to Spend Time Chatting Online While Other Patrons Are Waiting to Do ``Real'' Work? |
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293 | (2) |
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It's Fine for a Public Library to Provide Access to Social Networking Sites, but Why Should Your School Library Allow Teens to Access These Sites? |
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295 | (1) |
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Does Your Library Need a MySpace Profile? A Web Page? |
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296 | (1) |
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Does Virtual Programming Have a Place in Your Library? |
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297 | (1) |
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Do Portable Audiobook Devices, E-book Readers, or Video Game Consoles Belong in Your Library? |
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298 | (1) |
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How Can You Use Technology to Make the Library More Interesting to Teens? |
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299 | (1) |
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What If You Don't Have the Budget to Buy All of the Newest Technologies? |
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300 | (1) |
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Best Practices/Pilot Projects |
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301 | (4) |
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305 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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305 | (2) |
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Recommended Sources for Further Reading |
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307 | (2) |
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309 | (30) |
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What Does Youth Involvement at the Library Look Like? |
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309 | (1) |
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Why Does Youth Involvement Matter? |
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310 | (1) |
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What Are the Goals and Objectives for Youth Involvement with the Library? |
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311 | (1) |
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Who Benefits from Youth Involvement? |
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312 | (1) |
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How Does Youth Involvement Begin? |
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312 | (1) |
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What Is the Role of the LST in Youth Involvement? |
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313 | (1) |
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What Are the Guidelines for Youth Participation? |
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314 | (1) |
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What Are the Different Ways You Can Get Teens Involved in Your Library? |
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314 | (16) |
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You Want to Evaluate Youth Involvement at Your Library, but Where Do You Begin? |
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330 | (1) |
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What Are Some Best Practices in Youth Involvement? |
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331 | (4) |
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What Are the Elements of Success in Youth Involvement? |
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335 | (2) |
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337 | (1) |
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Sources Cited in This
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337 | (1) |
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Recommended Sources for Further Reading |
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338 | (1) |
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Issues in Young Adult Services |
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339 | (14) |
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Questions Teens Might Ask You |
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340 | (4) |
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Questions Parents Might Ask You |
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344 | (1) |
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Questions Other Community Members Might Ask You |
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345 | (1) |
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Questions Other Library Staff Might Ask You |
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346 | (2) |
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Questions Your Library Administrators Might Ask You |
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348 | (1) |
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Questions You Might Ask Yourself |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (3) |
| Conclusion |
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353 | (2) |
| Index |
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355 | (34) |
| About the Authors |
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