Library Materials and Services for Teen Girls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780313315541)

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.

Author: Katie O'Dell
ISBN-10: 031331554X
ISBN-13: 9780313315541
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.54d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2003 pg. 1831
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2003 pg. 258
School Library Journal 09/01/2003 pg. 243