This selected bibliography is a compilation of the professional
literature of children's services librarianship from 1876 to 1976.
It explores the evolution of children's work and of the major
developments, trends, innovations, and practices that evolved or
emerged in children's services. For anyone doing in-depth research
on the history of children's work in the American public library,
this extensive bibliography is indispensable. It includes both
monographs and journal articles and is organized around 10 subject
areas, ranging from Historical Focus to Multi-Media. . . . [T]here
is an undeniable wealth of material here. Booklist Children's
services has been acclaimed as one of the great contributions of
the American public library movement, yet in the early days of
American public libraries, children were not even considered to be
a part of the library's clientele. However, beginning as early as
1876, library professionals began to speak out in favor of
children's library usage and rights, a subject that eventually
became the focus of a whole corps of library professionals. Through
an analysis of the professional literature of librarianship
starting in 1876 and continuing for a hundred-year period to 1976,
Fannette H. Thomas has compiled this selected bibliography that
explores the evolution of children's work and the major
developments, trends, innovations, and practices that evolved or
emerged in children's services. The development of the children's
service is traced from the days when one shelf of materials for
children were culled from the adult collections to the appearance
of special children's rooms, reference services, and readers'
guidance, and from the pioneers in children's librarianship to
today's story hours and multimedia use. This bibliographic
exploration of children's services in the American public library
encompasses ten chapters including: those devoted to historical
focus, professional staff, organizational scheme, philosophical
perspective, client group, collection development, readers'
services, story hour, interagency cooperation, and multimedia. The
volume's entries reflect the plethora of information found in the
professional literature about every facet of children's services.
Author and subject indexes complete the work. This is a useful
resource for college and university libraries where courses in the
History of Librarianship, Studies in Public Librarianship, or
Children's Services in the Public Library are taught. A unique
reference guide, it will simplify the task for researchers,
students, and practitioners.
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