Children's Library Services Handbook

(Paperback)

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A guide through the pitfalls, special needs, and unique demands of children's library services. Librarians in school and public libraries, media specialists, and library science instructors will find helpful, cogent advice on collection development programming, collection maintenance, and reevaluation nonprint media, summer programs, publicity, public relations, and much more!

Reviews

.,."a welcome addition to professional youth service collections, and library school and state library collections."-RQ, Winter 1990
.,."it could easily serve as a textbook; it could serve as a useful review for the veteran children's librarian."-Public Libraries
...a welcome addition to professional youth service collections, and library school and state library collections.-RQ, Winter 1990
...it could easily serve as a textbook; it could serve as a useful review for the veteran children's librarian.-Public Libraries
A 'must' purchase.-Journal of Youth Services
A 'must' purchase.Journal of Youth Services
..."it could easily serve as a textbook; it could serve as a useful review for the veteran children's librarian."-Public Libraries
"A 'must' purchase."-Journal of Youth Services
..."a welcome addition to professional youth service collections, and library school and state library collections."-RQ, Winter 1990

Author Bio

JANE GARDNER CONNOR is children's service consultant at the South Carolina State Library and has been a youth services librarian. She also gives lectures and workshops to libraries and community groups on the topic of children's services.