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Information Literacy

The University of Southern Mississippi

2016

Public Libraries

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Teen Tested: The State Of Ya Services In America's Public Libraries, James Pinkard Sep 2016

Teen Tested: The State Of Ya Services In America's Public Libraries, James Pinkard

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The field of young adult services has been the recipient of much attention in library literature. However, current research on the status of young adult services is lacking, as noted by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA, 2011, Priority Area 1, para. 1). This research focuses on staffing, programming and collection development practices for young adults in selected U.S. public libraries. It will also seek to reveal whether a correlation exists between the presence of a young adult librarian and the state of a library's young adult services, as well as whether a correlation exists between the size of …