Teens, Libraries, and Social Networking: What Librarians Need to Know (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781598845754)

Learn how teens use social networking technologies and how these same technologies can be used to engage them in library services.

Teens and Social Networking Now: What Librarians Need to Know is organized around ten major topics, including using social networking sites to connect teens to young adult literature, social networking and legislative issues, social networking and safety/privacy issues, and the social and educational benefits of social networking. Expert practitioners explain how such issues can and should impact library services to young adults, focusing on concrete suggestions and specific steps for best practices and program designs that will help librarians utilize social networking tools to enhance library services to teens, both online and in the library.

As background, the book explores the reasons so many teens use these sites. It also shares a profile of an award-winning public library's use of social networking to engage teen library users and a national survey of the ways YA librarians are using social networking to deliver public library services.

Author: Denise E. Agosto
ISBN-10: 1598845756
ISBN-13: 9781598845754
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 05/18/2011
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.26w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2011 pg. 422
School Library Journal 10/01/2011 pg. 164
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 303