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Young Adult Resources Today: Connecting Teens with Books, Music,
Games, Movies, and More is the first comprehensive young adult
library services textbook specifically written for today's
multidimensional information landscape. The authors integrate a
research-focused information behavior approach with a
literature-focused resources approach, and bring together in one
volume key issues related to research, theory, and practice in the
provision of information services to young adults. Currently, no
single book addresses both YA information behaviors and information
resources in any detail; instead, books tend to focus on one and
give only cursory attention to the other. Key features of this
revolutionary book include its success in: *Integrating theory,
research, and practice *Integrating implications for practice
throughout the book *Integrating knowledge of resources with
professional practice as informed by research *Integrating both
print and electronic formats throughout-within the resource
chapters (including websites and social media) Latham and Gross
accomplish all this while, paying particular attention to the
socially constructed nature of young adulthood, diversity, YA
development, and multiple literacies. Their coverage of information
landscapes covers literature (with detailed coverage of both genres
and subgrenres), movies, magazines, web sites, social media, and
gaming. The final chapter cover navigating information landscapes,
focusing on real and virtual YA spaces, readers' advisory,
programming, and collaboration. Special attention is paid to
program planning and evaluation.
Not long after becoming public health concerns in the 1980s, HIV
and AIDS were featured in a number of works of fiction, though such
titles were written primarily for adult readers. Mirroring the
disease's indiscriminate nature, however, the subject would soon be
incorporated into novels aimed at young adults. Despite a need for
accessible information on the subject, it is difficult to identify
fiction that contains material about HIV/AIDS, as these books are
seldom catalogued for this content, nor is this content
consistently acknowledged in published reviews. In HIV/AIDS in
Young Adult Novels: An Annotated Bibliography, the authors address
this gap by identifying and assessing the full range of young adult
novels that include HIV/AIDS content. This resource is comprised of
two major parts. The first part summarizes findings from a content
analysis performed on novels written for readers aged 11-19,
published since 1981, and featuring at least one character with
HIV/AIDS. The second part is an annotated bibliography of the more
than 90 novels identified for use in the study. Each entry in the
bibliography contains an annotation that summarizes the plot and
how HIV/AIDS is depicted in the story, an indication of the
accuracy of the HIV/AIDS content, a note on how central HIV/AIDS is
to the story, and an evaluation of the literary quality of the
book. This work will assist readers in collecting, choosing,
evaluating, and using these works to educate readers about
HIV/AIDS.
Outcome-based planning and evaluation (OBPE), with its
straightforward approach built on a flexible framework, is the
perfect model to enable youth services professionals to deliver
effective services regardless of uncertainties. An outcome-based
approach can help youth services stay grounded in producing desired
outcomes with and for youth through responsive programs, services,
and processes that can adapt to changing conditions. Clarifying the
relationship between planning, program development, and evaluation,
the five simple steps outlined in this book will help youth
services staff conduct solid community assessments and integrate
OBPE into their work. Inside its pages you will learn a short
history of OBPE and its evolution; why it is crucially important to
involve youth in all stages of program development, with guidance
on navigating challenges; how to think about planning as the need
to react quickly, whether due to natural or human-made disasters,
changing demographics, or economic swings; the five steps of OBPE,
from gathering information about your community and determining the
outcomes that will serve your community to crafting accurate
outcome statements, developing an evaluation plan, and maximizing
the results of successful outcome-based programs; how to visualize
the steps needed to successfully plan, implement, and evaluate an
outcome-based program, using the template included in the book;
ways to share your data to let people know the library's important
role in the community; and additional useful tools to bolster your
work, including environmental scan forms and ideas for creating
relevant family storytimes.
This edited book helps demystify how to incorporate ACRL's
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into
information literacy instruction in higher education as well as how
to teach the new Framework to pre-service librarians as part of
their professional preparation. This single volume demonstrates
professional practice by bringing together current case studies
from librarians in higher education who are implementing the
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education as well as
cases from educators in library and information science, who are
working to prepare their pre-service students to practice in the
new instructional environment. Instructional librarians,
administrators, and educators will benefit from the experiences the
people on the ground who are actively working to make the
transition to the Framework in their professional practice.
This edited book helps demystify how to incorporate ACRL's
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into
information literacy instruction in higher education as well as how
to teach the new Framework to pre-service librarians as part of
their professional preparation. This single volume demonstrates
professional practice by bringing together current case studies
from librarians in higher education who are implementing the
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education as well as
cases from educators in library and information science, who are
working to prepare their pre-service students to practice in the
new instructional environment. Instructional librarians,
administrators, and educators will benefit from the experiences the
people on the ground who are actively working to make the
transition to the Framework in their professional practice.
Young Adult Resources Today: Connecting Teens with Books, Music,
Games, Movies, and More is the first comprehensive young adult
library services textbook specifically written for today s
multidimensional information landscape. The authors integrate a
research-focused information behavior approach with a
literature-focused resources approach, and bring together in one
volume key issues related to research, theory, and practice in the
provision of information services to young adults. Currently, no
single book addresses both YA information behaviors and information
resources in any detail; instead, books tend to focus on one and
give only cursory attention to the other. Key features of this
revolutionary book include its success in: .Integrating theory,
research, and practice .Integrating implications for practice
throughout the book .Integrating knowledge of resources with
professional practice as informed by research .Integrating both
print and electronic formats throughout within the resource
chapters (including websites and social media) Latham and Gross
accomplish all this while, paying particular attention to the
socially constructed nature of young adulthood, diversity, YA
development, and multiple literacies. Their coverage of information
landscapes covers literature (with detailed coverage of both genres
and subgrenres), movies, magazines, web sites, social media, and
gaming. The final chapter cover navigating information landscapes,
focusing on real and virtual YA spaces, readers advisory,
programming, and collaboration. Special attention is paid to
program planning and evaluation."
Paying attention to subtext is a crucial component of literacy.
However, the concept of peritextual analysis takes such examination
much further, teaching readers how to evaluate information and
sources using elements that precede or follow the body of the text.
A work's Preface, Afterword, index, dust jacket, promotional
blurbs, and bibliography are only some of the elements that can be
used to help readers connect with and understand the main text.
Speaking directly to librarians and educators working with K-16
students, this important book outlines the Peritextual Literacy
Framework and explains its unique utility as a teaching and
thinking tool; defines components such as production elements,
promotional elements, navigational elements, intratextual elements,
supplemental elements, and documentary elements, offering examples
drawn from both print and non-print texts; presents several case
studies showing peritextual analysis in action, ranging from young
adult nonfiction in the classroom to strengthening students' visual
literacy skills by critically comparing and contrasting two graphic
novel covers; and examines how the functions of peritext and the
Peritextual Literacy Framework exist within online news articles,
film and media packaging, and other non-print texts. The creative
and engaging approaches to providing, highlighting, and teaching
the peritext of a text showcased in this collection will help
students learn how to judge a book by its cover ... and everything
else.
Planning and assessment are both crucial elements of a public
library that functions efficiently and flexibly. So why are they
often treated as separate processes? This concise book combines
planning and evaluation in a holistic approach, helping public
library managers and staff put library resources to work for the
community. Based on a series of successful workshops, the authors
present a workflow made up of manageable steps for integrating
outcome-based planning and evaluation (OBPE) into the routine
functions of the public library. Offering step by step guidance
that's transparent and easy to follow, this book: introduces the
concept of OBPE and explains how it can be a streamlined, effective
method of getting library users' feedback; defines outcomes and
shows why public libraries should use them to plan and evaluate
services; shares methodologies for assessing community needs and
interests, including key informant interviews, surveys, focus
groups, and environmental scans; demonstrates how to use community
assessment data to create outcome statements that not only guide
the creation of new library services, but also provide targets for
measuring the effectiveness of those services; offers techniques
for designing services that directly serve the community while also
achieving the outcomes the library has targeted; and provides tips
for sharing the results with stakeholders and maximizing successful
outcome-based programs to leverage the library's role in the
community. Featuring plentiful examples of how to proceed through
each phase of the OBPE model, this book boils down planning and
evaluation into an approachable, easy to understand process for
public librarians, library managers, and grant writers.
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