Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults - Softcover

Pattee, Amy S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810887347 ISBN 13: 9780810887343

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2014

Synopsis

Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults features policies that deal expressly with materials that respect the intellectual freedom of young library patrons. It emphasizes the importance of everything from needs assessment to collection development, encouraging librarians to consider informational, recreational, and curricular needs and interests as the library staff select material on behalf of young adults. With detailed guidelines for developing and evaluating collections of print and electronic material, Amy S. Pattee devotes chapters to materials selection, acquisition, and assessment, describing fiction and nonfiction genres, graphic forms, and multimedia and electronic materials, including networked resources, e-books, and computer games. Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults may be consulted by librarians charged with the development and maintenance of public library collections for young adults and may be employed in library science courses related to young adult literature and library services and collection development.

About this title

About the Author

Amy S. Pattee is associate professor at Simmons College where she teaches youth librarianship as well as children's and young adult literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810887347
• ISBN 13: 9780810887343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282