Create, Innovate, and Serve
A Radical Approach to Children's and Youth Programming

Kathleen Campana (Author), J. Elizabeth Mills (Author), Susan Hildreth (Foreword by)

9780838917206

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2019

304 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 2 cm, 0.525 kg

Library services are transforming to emphasize interactive, innovative, participatory, and often production-centered programming. It’s a truly radical approach, and tomorrow’s LIS graduates in children’s and youth services need a resource that helps them understand this programming as it pertains to these age ranges. This text meets that need, bringing together a wide range of perspectives from both practice and research to survey this new landscape of programming for children and youth. Providing in-depth information crucial to those who will soon encounter these programs in library settings, this contributed volume

• delves into a wide variety of different programs, discussing their crucial elements and how to develop, plan, and deliver them;
• uses case studies of innovative practices to address such key issues as diversity, equity, media mentorship, community partnerships, dedicated library spaces, discussion-based programming, and assessment;
• presents annotated bibliographies of research, organized by young children (birth to 5), middle childhood (ages 6 to 12), and teens (ages 13 and up); and
• examines children and youth programming trends, teaching how to recognize and incorporate these trends into all types of programs.