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The Teen-Centered Writing Club: Bringing Teens and Words Together

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Build your teen community with a program that’s irresistible—a teen writing club. Teens have primal urges to create and to connect. Now you can tap into those urges with the help of this comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating a teen writing club in the school or public library. Featuring creative writing activities, with detailed planning advice, coaching tips, and culminating in performance/publishing ideas, this book makes it easy for you to create a pla… More >>

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Defining Relevancy: Managing the New Academic Library

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Connection. Competition. Collaboration. These three words define management of college libraries, today and in the future. They also describe the contents of this book, which focus on planning for the multiple directions that college library managers must consider and act upon. Contributed chapters cover the challenges nearly all must face, such as understanding users, information literacy, staff alignment, and the integration of physical building and function. So… More >>

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The Customer-Focused Library: Re-Inventing the Public Library From the Outside-In

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What is the future of the public library? How can libraries embrace the forces of change and provide the resources—and the resource-gathering environment—todayÕs patrons want? The Customer-Focused Library: Re-Inventing the Library From the Outside-In answers these questions by proposing a transformative alternative, a reimagined library in which the collections, the services—even the building itself—are designed and built from the customerÕs perspective.Wr… More >>

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