Urban teens in the library
Subtitle: research and practice
By: edited by Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell.
Contributors: Agosto, Denise E.; Hughes-Hassell, Sandra.
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838910153
Subjects: Young adults' libraries -- United States; Libraries and teenagers -- United States; Libraries and metropolitan areas -- United States; Internet in young adults' libraries -- United States; Urban youth -- Books and reading -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who are urban teens, and what does "urban" mean, anyway? / Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell; title: Moving beyond the stereotypes : seeing urban teenagers as individuals / Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Lewis Hassell, and Denise E. Agosto; title: Revamping library services to meet urban teens' everyday life information needs and preferences / Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell; title: Developing a leisure reading program that is relevant and responsive to the lives of urban teenagers : insights from research / Sandra Hughes-Hassell; title: Street lit : before you can recommend it, you have to understand it / Vanessa J. Irvin Morris, with Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell; title: Urban teens, online social networking, and library services / June Abbas and Denise E. Agosto; title: Urban teens and their use of public libraries / Denise E. Agosto; title: Public library websites and urban teenagers' health information needs / Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Dana Hanson-Baldauf; title: Spacing out with young adults : translating YA space concepts into practice / Anthony Bernier; title: Youth development and evaluation : lessons from "Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development" / Elaine Meyers; title: The loft at ImaginOn : a new-generation library for urban teens / Michele Gorman, Amy Wyckoff, and Rebecca L. Buck; title: Before it's reading, it's writing : urban teens as authors in the public library / Autumn Winters and Elizabeth J. Gregg; title: Following and leading teens online : using digital library services to reach urban teens / Kara Reuter; title: -et al.