Browse 1986: Managers and missionaries : library services to children and young adults in the information age by Subject "Children's libraries"

  • Access to information: Professional responsibility and personal response 
    McDonald, Frances M. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    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, ...

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  • Changing priorities for service to children and adolescents in school and public libraries 
    Miller, Marilyn L. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    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 ...

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  • Credentials, competencies, and certification 
    Atkinson, Joan L. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    The process of licensing shapes the future of the profession by restricting entrance to those who meet certain qualifications. Licensing is a gatekeeping function, at least theoretically protecting the public from ...

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  • Design of youth services 
    Cummins, Julie (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    How will the public library or school media center's program of service relate to the changing needs of youth? Take the word design how do you interpret it? As the grand scheme of things, the master plan, a schematic, ...

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  • Evaluation and measurement of youth services 
    Hodges, Gerald G. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    The current effort to improve the quality of youth services and to expand these services must be firmly grounded in a meaningful context of evaluation. Evaluation of personnel and measurement and evaluation of program are ...

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  • Halos and pitchforks: Questions about librarians serving youth 
    Kimmel, Margaret Mary (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    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 ...

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  • Management of youth services: Political, financial, and social implications 
    Minudri, Regina (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    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 ...

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  • Marketing youth library services: A user approach 
    Hippenhammer, Craighton (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    Library services to youth are in crisis. New library school graduates information managers all are refusing to enter the field in the numbers they used to and library directors often cannot fill positions they have ...

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  • Part I: Funding for youth services - how to do it and where to find it 
    Rosenzweig, Susan (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    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 ...

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  • Part II: Funding for youth services - Library Services and Construction Act 
    Faklis, Ruth E. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    When seeking funding for additional programs, special projects, expanded library services, etc., the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) grant monies should be considered. All fifty states are entitled to LSCA ...

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  • The right stuff: Recruitment and education for children's and young adult specialists 
    Bush, Margaret (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    Not long ago a friend and colleague who is the head of children's services in a public library serving a community of about 40,000 was reflecting on problems of assessing the background and skills of applicants for a ...

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  • What do public libraries need from managers and missionaries for children's services? 
    Drescher, Judith A. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    As a former children's services librarian and a library administrator in several public libraries, I've spoken on this topic numerous times over the last twelve years. In general, the audience expects to hear words of ...

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  • What do schools need? 
    Pretlow, Delores Zachary (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989)
    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 ...

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