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Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults Amy S. Pattee

Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults By Amy S. Pattee

Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults by Amy S. Pattee


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With a dual focus on access and diversity, this book includes timely and necessary guidance for librarians seeking to diversify their collections with material that reflects racial, ethnic, and gender diversity as well as the experiences of individuals with disabilities.

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Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults: Ensuring Inclusion and Access by Amy S. Pattee

In the five years since Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults was published, a number of changes have taken place in the landscape of young adult literature and young adult library services. For example, in 2014, the We Need Diverse Books (#wndb) movement mobilized and alerted a growing population of teachers, librarians, authors, publishers, reviewers, and readers to the necessity of diverse representation in literature for young people. The 2017 revision of the Young Adult Library Services Association's Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff underscored this need to attend to diversity in library collections, instructing young adult librarians to model cultural competence and responsiveness in their practice by incorporating culturally diverse materials and resources [in their] collections, services, and programs to support the cultural identity, beliefs, and practices of all teens and families (2017, p. 13). Such a focus on diversity has resulted in a professional expansion of the term to include racial, ethnic, and cultural identities; gender identity; sexual orientation; and identities related to ability and disability. With a dual focus on access and diversity, Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults: Ensuring Access and Inclusion, Second Edition includes timely and necessary guidance for librarians seeking to diversify their collections and select material that reflects racial, ethnic, and gender diversity as well as the experiences of individuals with disabilities. The latest edition of this VOYA Five-foot Bookshelf title includes guidelines for developing young adult collection development policy, conducting a needs assessment, and evaluating and selecting print and non-print material for the library's YA collection.

About Amy S. Pattee

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.

Table of Contents

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

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CIN153812355XG
9781538123553
153812355X
Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults: Ensuring Inclusion and Access by Amy S. Pattee
Used - Good
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
20200214
402
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