The right stuff: Recruitment and education for children's and young adult specialists

Bush, Margaret

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Title

The right stuff: Recruitment and education for children's and young adult specialists

Author(s)

Bush, Margaret

Issue Date

1989

Keyword(s)

• Children's libraries
• Youth services librarians
• Education
• Recruitment

Abstract

"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 position as children's librarian. She was pointing out that the academic and work experiences listed on the resume and application are often not very reliable indicators of the actual education or training the individual has been provided. ""You simply can't assume any common set of competencies,"" she commented. While the common sense of this seems pretty basic, don't we usually suppose that if a person has taken the requisite courses in library school, there will be at least a passing acquaintance with some widely understood tenets of children's literature, say, or school librarianship or young adult services?"

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (28th : 1986)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Institute sponsored by University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, cosponsored by the Youth Divisions of the American Library Association: American Association of School Librarians (AASL), Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), Young Adult Services Division (YASD)

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