Transforming Young Adult Services

Ebook 2020

"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.

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9780838919330

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Electronic reproduction. Chicago American Library Association 2019 Available via World Wide Web

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
Part I: Betweenness. Chapter 1: Envisaging Young Adult Librarianship from a Teen-Centered Perspective / by Denise E. Agosto
Chapter 2: Diverse Identity in Anxious Times: Young Adult Literature and Contemporary Culture / by Karen Coats
Chapter 3: Students or Learners? Conceptualizing Youth in School Libraries / by Mary Ann Harlan
Part II: Intellectual Freedom. Chapter 4: Misfits, Loners, Immature Students, and Reluctant Readers: Librarianship in the Construction of Teen Readers of Comics / by Lucia Cedeira Serantes
Chapter 5: Identity at Odds: The Sometimes Conflicting Viewpoints about Young Adults' Rights in Libraries / by Cherie Givens
Chapter 6: Situating Youth Voice: Moving from Understanding to Action through Critical Theory / by Jeanie Austin
Part III: Confronting Convention. Chapter 7: Crossing Over: The Advent of the Adultescent / by Michael Cart
Chapter 8: Storytelling, Young Adults, and Three Paradoxes / by Kate McDowell
Chapter 9: "The Library Is Like Her House": Reimagining Youth of Color in LIS Discourses / by Kafi D. Kumasi
Part IV: Emergent Roles. Chapter 10: Beyond Coaching: Copiloting with Young Adults / by Wendy Schaetzel Lesko
Chapter 11: LIS's Vision of Young Adults: Some Historical Roots for Current Theories and Practice / by Mary K. Chelton
Part V: From Citizenship to Membership. Chapter 12: Tribalism versus Citizenship: Are Youth Increasingly Unwelcome in Libraries? / by Mike Males
Chapter 13: Imagining Today's Young Adults in LIS: Moving Forward with Critical Youth Studies / by Paulette Rothbauer
Chapter 14: Moving Beyond YAs as "Citizens": The Promise of Membership / by Anthony Bernier
Conclusion: Membership's Promise for Praxis / by Anthony Bernier

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3088302

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Bernier, Anthony, editor
Budd, John, 1953- author of introduction, etc
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