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Serving Full T.I.L.T. (Teens in Libraries Today): By the numbers, making the case for teen services with demographics
The idea for Serving Full T.I.L.T. began with a seemingly simple question: How do you convince library administrators, staff and your local community that we need to be serving teens? One of the answers seems obvious to me and amounts to basically why would you want to invest in children and then start ignoring them […]
Sunday Reflections: Bigger is Not Always Better
It’s the end of summer reading, and almost the end of our fiscal year, which means that I have been compiling statistics. Administrators, city council, board members, they love to look at numbers on a page to get a sense of what you’re doing, but the truth is numbers don’t tell the whole story. The […]
The Case for Diversity: A Statistical Profile of Teens
Should there be more POC (people of color) in YA lit? Should teens in YA lit drink? What about have sex? The truth is, YA lit (or teen lit) should reflect the audience it is marketed to. And in many ways, it doesn’t. There are millions of teens, and just like the rest of the […]
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