Directions: Background -- Purpose -- Planning your trip -- Maps: Twelve goals -- Ten core values -- Ten essential arguments -- Two roads to travel: New planning for results -- Information power -- Itinerary for quality library services to young adults: Administration -- Collections -- Programs -- Services -- Electronic resources -- Facilities and hours -- Staff -- Reaching the destination: success stories -- Successful journey: outcomes -- Appendixes: Service responses from The new planning for results: a streamlined approach -- 40 developmental assets from the Search Institute -- Young adult services trainers offer their services to school and public libraries -- Strategic plan of the Young Adult Library Services Association -- Normal Adolescent development from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology -- Toward a blueprint for youth: making positive youth development a national priority -- Guidelines for youth participation -- Nine information literacy standards for student learning from the American Association of School Librarians -- Excerpt from adolescent literacy: a position statement from the International Reading Association -- Young adults deserve the best: competencies for librarians serving young adults.

With clearly stated goals and core values, this book provides direction on establishing quality library service to young adults in school and public libraries - service that is built upon the foundations of youth development, developmental needs and developmental assets

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