
Teens, Libraries, and Social Networking
What Librarians Need to Know
- 208 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Teens, Libraries, and Social Networking
What Librarians Need to Know
About this book
Learn how teens use social networking technologies and how these same technologies can be used to engage them in library services. Teens and Social Networking Now: What Librarians Need to Know is organized around ten major topics, including using social networking sites to connect teens to young adult literature, social networking and legislative issues, social networking and safety/privacy issues, and the social and educational benefits of social networking. Expert practitioners explain how such issues can and should impact library services to young adults, focusing on concrete suggestions and specific steps for best practices and program designs that will help librarians utilize social networking tools to enhance library services to teens, both online and in the library. As background, the book explores the reasons so many teens use these sites. It also shares a profile of an award-winning public library's use of social networking to engage teen library users and a national survey of the ways YA librarians are using social networking to deliver public library services.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Introduction: Teens, Libraries, and Online Social Networks: A New Era for Library Services to Young Adults
- 1 What Do Public Librarians Really Do with Social Networking? Profiles of Five Public Libraries
- 2 Looking Closely at Teens' Use of Social Networks: What Do High School Seniors Do Online?
- 3 How Social Networking Sites Aid in Teen Development
- 4 The Role of Media Literacy Education within Social Networking and the Library
- 5 If You Build It, Will They Come? A Comparison of Social Networking Utilities
- 6 Teens, Social Networking, and Safety and Privacy Issues
- 7 Social Networking: Teen Rights, Responsibilities, and Legal Issues
- 8 Using Social Networking Sites to Connect Teens with Young Adult Literature
- 9 Fandom as a Form of Social Networking
- 10 Hanging Out on the Grid: Virtual Worlds for Teens and Preteens
- 11 Pages, Profiles, and Podcasts: How Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Engages Teens through Social Networking
- 12 Bringing It All Together: What Does It Mean for Librarians Who Serve Teens?
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors