Marketing youth library services: A user approach

Hippenhammer, Craighton

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Title

Marketing youth library services: A user approach

Author(s)

Hippenhammer, Craighton

Issue Date

1989

Keyword(s)

• Children's libraries
• Youth services librarians
• Marketing

Abstract

"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 in youth services. School librarian positions are getting harder to fill as well. Who, after all, wants to have the sole responsibility for three or four libraries when each should be supporting a full-time professional? Young adult librarians are still looked on as optional (The Ohio Library Association just held a program called ""Young Adult Service, a Right, Not a Privilege""), and children's librarians are fast becoming an endangered species in some areas of the country. Can anything be done? Does anyone care?"

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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