Create, Innovate, and Serve: A Radical Approach to Children's and Youth Programming

by Kathleen Campana (Editor), J. Elizabeth Mills (Editor)

Overview

Library services are transforming to emphasize interactive, innovative, participatory, and often production-centered programming. It's a truly radical approach, and tomorrow’s LIS graduates in children’s and youth services need a resource that helps them understand this programming as it pertains to these age ranges. This text meets that need, bringing together a wide range of perspectives from both practice and research to survey this new landscape of programming for children and youth. Providing in-depth information crucial to those who will soon encounter these programs in library settings, this contributed volume

• delves into a wide variety of different programs, discussing their crucial elements and how to develop, plan, and deliver them;
• uses case studies of innovative practices to address such key issues as diversity, equity, media mentorship, community partnerships, dedicated library spaces, discussion-based programming, and assessment;
• presents annotated bibliographies of research, organized by young children (birth to 5), middle childhood (ages 6 to 12), and teens (ages 13 and up); and
• examines children and youth programming trends, teaching how to recognize and incorporate these trends into all types of programs.

Emphasizing an inclusive approach to programming that incorporates research-based theories and frameworks, this text will be a valuable orientation tool for LIS students as well as a holistic guide for current children and youth services professionals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838917961
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	04/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	481,667
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword. The Library as Community Anchor Introduction Acknowledgments Part I. Foundation and Transformations Chapter 1. When All Really Means All Chapter 2. The Power of a Story Chapter 3. Playing to Learn, Learning to Play Chapter 4. Librarians as Media Mentors Chapter 5. The Five-Step Outcome-Based Planning and Evaluation Model for Children's and Young Adult Program Assessment Chapter 6. Taking the Library to Unexpected Places Chapter 7. The Ever-Changing Library Part II. Program Profiles Chapter 8. Early Childhood Decoded Chapter 9. Prioritizing Community, Literacy, and Equity in Programming for Children from Birth to Age Five at the Pierce County Library System Chapter 10. Arapahoe Libraries Chapter 11. The Free Library of Philadelphia Chapter 12. Cultivating Knowing and Growing at the Scottsdale Public Library Chapter 13. Intentionality, Interactivity, and Community in Early Childhood Programming at Public Libraries Chapter 14. Connecting Programs to the Learning and Development of Children Ages Six to Twelve Chapter 15. Middle Childhood Is Not Middle of the Road Chapter 16. A Collaborative Approach to Equitable STEM Programming at Sand Francisco Public Library Chapter 17. Middle Childhood Matters at Toronto Public Library Chapter 18. The Dream Team: The Library as a Partner in Literacy and Learning for Children Ages Six to Twelve Chapter 19. Why Teens Need the Library and the Library Needs Teens Chapter 20. Empowering Teens to Build Their Own Futures at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Chapter 21. Teens at the Helm Chapter 22. A Vision for an Innovative New Teen Space Chapter 23. Co-Constructing Leadership Chapter 24. Teens and Public Libraries Conclusion. Putting This All Together About the Editors and Contributors Index