Amy S. Pattee

Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults (eBook, PDF)

Ensuring Inclusion and Access

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the five years since the first edition of Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults was published, numerous changes have taken place in the landscape of young adult literature and young adult library services. Informed by the professional activism-including the "We Need Diverse Books" (#wndb) movement-today's professionals recognize that library collections for young adults are incomplete if they fail to address and reflect a diversity of racial, ethnic, and cultural identities; gender identities; sexual orientations; and identities related to ability and disability. Contemporary librarians working to diversify their collections select material in a number of formats and must consider the accessibility of both old and new media as they select titles and resources. Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults, Ensuring Inclusion and Access, Second Edition, offers guidance to librarians confronted with an expanding universe of published material from which to select. With special emphasis on the principles of inclusion and accessibility, this new edition of Developing Library Collections includes guidelines for creating a young adult collection development policy, conducting a needs assessment, and evaluating and selecting print and nonprint material for the library's YA collection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765169834
• Artikelnr.: 74845481

Autorenporträt

Amy Pattee is an associate professor of Library and Information Science at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts. There, she teaches in the university's School of Library and Information Science and in its programs in Children's Literature. Prior to becoming a professor, Amy worked as a youth services librarians in Burlington County and Ocean County, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Library Collections for Young Adults
Chapter 2: Developing Young Adult Collections: Multiple Perspectives
Chapter 3: Collection Development Policies: Ensuring Diversity and Access
Chapter 4: Describing Diversity: Conducting a Needs Assessment Chapter 5:
Considering Access and Diversity: Selecting Material for the Young Adult
Collection Chapter 6: Acquiring Material for the Young Adult Collection
Chapter 7: Measuring, Evaluating, and Assessing the Young Adult Collection
Chapter 8: Weeding the Young Adult Collection Chapter 9: Maintaining
Library Collections for Young Adults Bibliography