Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manuals for Libraries, No. 59) (How-to-do-it Manuals for Librarians)

Here is the long-awaited revised and greatly expanded edition of the guide public libraries described as "the classic how-to manual for the field". Covering every aspect of young adult services, this highly current, invaluable guide will help librarians provide needed special services to YA users. The new edition includes: extensive information about YA Internet use in libraries, a discussion of intellectual freedom issues and how to handle challenges, contemporary marketing techniques that will bring more young adults to your library, and a YA "training tool kit" for library staff with tips, techniques, proven training exercises, and a training checklist. Numerous new figures, charts, documents and forms, plus a new appendix listing addresses for YA publishers, magazines, and professional periodicals, and a completely updated bibliography round out this indispensable guide.