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2020

Format:	Book
Title:	Transforming young adult services / written and edited by Anthony Bernier ; foreword by John M. Budd.
Edition:	Second edition.
Publisher, Date:	Chicago : ALA-Neal Schuman, 2020. ©2020
Description:	xlviii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm illustration
Summary:	"This revised and expanded second edition updates a provocative collection of 14 expert contributions to the debate inaugurated in 2013 addressing LIS's historic avoidance in defining and envisioning its young adult users by offering readers a diverse set of possible responses to how LIS should define YAs for its own professional, institutional, and research purposes"-- Provided by publisher. The essays in this collection attempt to introduce critical social theory to the broadest, most compelling, most practical aspects of YA librarianship. Some concentrate on fundamental aspects of YA librarianship that currently go unaddressed in daily practice. The diverse concepts and arguments represented are designed to spark lively discussion with which to prepare students for becoming deliberative professional practitioners. -- adapted from Preface.
Subjects:	Young adults' libraries. Young adults' libraries -- United States. Libraries and teenagers. Libraries and teenagers -- United States.
Other Author:	Bernier, Anthony, editor, author. Budd, John, 1953- writer of foreword.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. HOUSED IN REFERENCE.
Contents:	Foreword to the first edition / by John M. Budd -- Preface: Young adult services at the crossroads / by Anthony Bernier -- Introduction: Making the case for transforming / by Anthony Bernier -- Envisaging young adult librarianship from a teen-centered perspective / by Denise E. Agosto -- Diverse identity in anxious times : young adult literature and contemporary culture / by Karen Coats -- Students or learners? Conceptualizing youth in school libraries / by Mary Ann Harlan -- Misfits, loners, immature students, and reluctant readers : librarianship in the construction of teen readers of comics / by Lucia Cedeira Serantes -- Identity at odds : the sometimes conflicting viewpoints about young adults' rights in libraries / by Cherie Givens -- Situating youth voice : moving from understanding to action through critical theory / by Jeanie Austin -- Crossing over : the advent of the adultescent / by Michael Cart -- Storytelling, young adults, and three paradoxes / by Kate McDowell -- "The library is like her house": reimagining youth of color in LIS discourses / by Kafi D. Kumasi -- Beyond coaching : copiloting with young adults / by Wendy Schaetzel Lesko -- LIS's vision of young adults : some historical roots for current theories and practice / by Mary K. Chelton -- Tribalism versus citizenship : are youth increasingly unwelcome in libraries? / by Mike Males -- Imagining today's young adults in LIS : moving forward with critical youth studies / by Paulette Rothbauer -- Moving beyond YAs as "citizens" : the promise of membership / by Anthony Bernier -- Conclusion: Membership's promise for praxis / by Anthony Bernier.
LCCN:	2019024013
ISBN:	9780838917749 0838917747
Other Number:	1107062147
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The underlying perspective of this professional resource is that YA service should move from a model where youth are seen as underrealized adults (who need to be corrected or developed ) to one where youth are valued as individuals and where library service embraces teens-in-the-moment. Chapters are arranged in three sections: describing the librarian's perspective of young adults and young adult literature; uncovering the marginalization of youth and moving teens into partnership with LIS activities; and exploring YA rights and intellectual freedom. The book is scholarly in tone and focus, and the picture it presents of youth and youth services is heavily biased by the imperfect lens of theory. Editor Bernier is a professor at San Jose State University, and the bulk of the authors are also library-school professors. Although it may be difficult for researchers to envision teens as individuals, working librarians certainly know they will engage with a variety of personalities each day. Descriptions of practice and trends sometimes seem outdated, such as the author who predicts the next big home for book reviews will be social media sites such as Myspace. Nevertheless, the theories are engaging, and LIS students and YA researchers should find it of interest.--Weak, Emily Copyright 2010 Booklist

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Foreword by John M. Budd; with contributions from Denise E. Agosto, Jeanie Austin, Michael Cart, Mary K. Chelton, Karen Coats, Kate McDowell, Cherie Givens, Mary Ann Harlan, Kafi D. Kumasi, Wendy Schaetzel Lesko, Mike Males, Paulette Rothbauer, Lucia Cedeira Serantes

How should LIS envision its young adult users? Now showcasing an even more rigorous debate about the theory and practice of YA librarianship than its first edition, this "provocative presentation of diverse viewpoints by leaders in the field" ( Catholic Library World ) has been updated and expanded to incorporate recent advances in critical youth studies. A comprehensive, evidence-based treatment that offers LIS instructors, students, and practitioners a valuable tool for aligning YA services to more fully reflect our diverse populations of young people, this collection delves deeply into such topics as

the historical roots for current theories and practice; how intellectual freedom, storytelling, library collections, and other service topics can connect with the library's notion and vision of young adults; diverse YA identities, including critical race theory; competing perspectives on young adults' rights in libraries; envisaging YA librarianship from a teen-centered perspective; youth identities and the school library; and moving beyond coaching to copilot with young adults.

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