http://hdl.handle.net/2142/463 Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 28, 1986); Edited by Leslie Edmonds http://hdl.handle.net/2142/575 Continuing education: Providing for change, renewal, and growth Varlejs, Jana Why should this Allerton Institute on library services for children and young adults include a session on continuing education (CE)? Are there different issues and problems associated with CE for youth services librarians than for librarians in general? If so, what are they? The task today is to explore these questions, to identify the concerns about CE, and, if agreement is reached on some specific conclusions, to contribute to the "Youth Agenda" which will be formulated at the conclusion of the conference. From the perspective of one who administers a continuing education program which seeks to serve professionals in all types of libraries, media, and information centers, one answer to the questions just posed is no the basic issues and problems relating to continuing education are not very different, whether one is talking about school librarians or directors of public libraries or online searchers in industry. There are differences in degree, however, and therefore the answer to the question, should we be talking about CE for youth librarians specifically, is yes. In fact, a case can be made to support the contention that youth librarians are singularly disadvantaged in regard to continuing education. Youth services librarians Continuing education Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/574 Coalition-building: Maybe tomorrow? Maybe today! Tyson, Christy I do manage to find time to interact with school personnel, usually through monthly lunches, and to visit most of the youth-serving agencies in the city at least once a year. However, I am all too aware that there is much more that should be done if we are to develop a program that supports the needs and interests of Spokane's young people as fully as they deserve. I also know that even on the most hectic of days I have choices. I would like to think that those choices are based on the library's goals and objectives. However, I know that there are other factors at work for me, and, I suspect, for others in youth services as well. I don't find much value in harangues or breast-beating. Instead, I would like to step back and explore how coalition-building is supported or resisted by the profession. Youth services in libraries Outreach Public libraries Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/573 Front matter including Table of Contents to Managers and missionaries : library services to children and young adults in the information age (Papers presented at the Allerton Park Institute November 14-16, 1986) Table of Contents Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/572 What library schools offer that school library media specialists and youth services librarians need Snoke, Helen Lloyd When asked to speak at this conference on the topic, "What Library Schools Offer that School Library Media Specialists and Youth Services Librarians Need," it was decided that personal experience needed to be supplemented with curriculum revision at Michigan and with the rather sketchy knowledge of what some colleagues at other universities are doing in library education for youth services with current information from other programs. Many library school catalogs, including Michigan's, did not reflect the most recent developments, and the professional literature seemed to focus more on what is not being done rather than what is being done. Library schools Education School media specialists Youth services librarians Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/571 Part I: Funding for youth services - how to do it and where to find it Rosenzweig, Susan No one ever said that part of the job of a young adult librarian would be fund-raising. I took all the courses needed to best serve young people but mention was never made in any course, by any teacher, of how one goes about getting funding for programs and materials that are not included in the regular library budget. Nor did anyone ever suggest that, in fact, that is part of a librarian's job. Evidently no one predicted that it would be necessary. So why is it a special issues session at this institute? Children's libraries Youth services Funding Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/570 What do schools need? Pretlow, Delores Zachary After eighteen years of professional commitment to library media services for youth, I found myself perplexed by the question, What do schools need? Perplexed because my personal perceptions were so clear or so I thought. Yet, I could not focus and translate them to the written word. It became necessary to sit and recall years of professional behaviors and experiences in the school and public library. It also became necessary to summon relationships and accomplishments, gained or lost, due to those behaviors. What I saw showed growth and tremendous change, but not nearly enough. It was frightening because I found that the majority of our problems were due to us; we did not know who we were or what we should be doing. I turned to research and fellow professionals for help. I had to know what was being done in the school library media centers of this country. There was too much fragmentation in my mind and in the evidence to determine what was needed now and tomorrow. What I discerned schools to need from librarianship and what I see them needing in the future was tied to how we perceived ourselves as being and what role we are willing to play. Children's libraries School libraries Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/569 Management of youth services: Political, financial, and social implications Minudri, Regina It is interesting to note the order in which these implications are presented. Five years ago we might have seen the fiscal side head the list. Ten years ago there was a fascination with social implications and societal changes. Today politics takes first position. That observation is not meant to imply that political considerations are more important than those of the budget or those of the surrounding communities, but it is the juxtaposition that interests this author. Children's libraries Youth services Management Administration Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/568 Changing priorities for service to children and adolescents in school and public libraries Miller, Marilyn L. This paper is an attempt to present some issues and concerns that will have to be addressed as continued plans are made for library programs for young people that will serve them effectively in the coming decade. This Allerton Institute is a milestone in the history of the development of library service to American youth. What is now organized as three youth divisions of the American Library Association (ALA) The American Association of School Librarians (AASL), The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), and The Young Adult Services Division (YASD) was at one time a single body representing all youth services. Youth services librarians worked together originally as an organized, integrated group. They separated thirty-five years ago to develop unique areas of specialization by type of library and age level. Now in a different and fast changing period of time, youth services librarians are being forced to confront the inescapable fact that they may have to come together again in some way to provide more effective service to a shrinking youth population beset by tremendous social and cultural change and unrelenting rapid technological development. Public libraries School libraries Children's libraries Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/567 Access to information: Professional responsibility and personal response McDonald, Frances M. While virtually all of the voluminous writing on censorship focuses on the actions of outsiders, much of the actual censorship is done by librarians. Quietly, under the guise of selection, spurred by rumors of controversy, or the tainting of an author because of continuous efforts to remove her books, a librarian removes a book, creates a restricted shelf, or neglects to buy a potentially controversial title. Children's libraries Youth services librarians Censorship Access to information Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/566 Halos and pitchforks: Questions about librarians serving youth Kimmel, Margaret Mary All occupations are worthy of study, a fact documented by many since Robert Park's classic research on the hobo, the taxi-dance-hall girl, and the professional thief. Librarianship, too, has been subjected to in-depth analysis on everything from the personality of the librarian to questions about the attributes of the profession. The subspecialty of work with young people has recently been subjected to much scrutiny, primarily because there is such a need for specialists in schools and public libraries at the entry level. Children's libraries Youth services librarians Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT