The Guy-Friendly YA Library: Serving Male Teens by Welch, Rollie J.

The Guy-Friendly YA Library: Serving Male Teens (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781591582700)

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Format: Paperback
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The Guy-Friendly YA Library: Serving Male Teens by Welch, Rollie J.

The Guy-Friendly YA Library: Serving Male Teens

$50.00
The Guy-Friendly YA Library: Serving Male Teens by Welch, Rollie J.

The Guy-Friendly YA Library: Serving Male Teens

$50.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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Re-design and upgrade your collection and services to attract male teens, as well as females, to the library. With this guide, you'll learn about reading habits of young men, male-friendly collection development with fiction and nonfiction materials, teen advisory boards, teen area design and display, programs that bring male teens into the library, homework services, diversity of male teens, and how to redefine library policies, procedures, and attitudes to create an environment where male teens thrive. Filled with insights, anecdotes, practical guidelines, and tips that show how to make the library a facility where male teens feel welcome and comfortable.

Author: Rollie J. Welch
ISBN-10: 1591582709
ISBN-13: 9781591582700
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.28w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2007 pg. 380
School Library Journal 11/01/2007 pg. 164
Library Journal 10/15/2007 pg. 96
Booklist 10/01/2007 pg. 86
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 300
By Rollie J. Welch
By Rollie J. Welch
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Rollie James Welch is Teen Coordinator of the Cleveland Public Library System. He has worked as a librarian, mostly with teens, for 26 years in both school and public library settings. A frequent presenter at local library workshops throughout his home state of Ohio, Rollie has served on the YALSA book selection committees, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and Best Books for Young Adults. He has also chaired VOYA's Top Shelf for Middle School Fiction committee. He is a reviewer for Kirkus, VOYA, Library Journal and The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.

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