{"product_id":"supporting-student-parents-in-the-academic-library-designing-spaces-policies-and-services-paperback-softback-9798892555531","title":"Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library; Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services (Paperback \/ softback) 9798892555531","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSupporting Student Parents in the Academic Library\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDesigning Spaces, Policies, and Services\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKelsey Keyes (Author), Ellie Dworak (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9798892555531\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eStudent parents are a socioeconomically, racially, and financially diverse group. What they have in common is the drive to work hard to overcome steep barriers in obtaining a college education.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSupporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services \u003c\/i\u003eis part toolkit, part treatise, and part call to action. In four parts: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Higher Education Landscape \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Role of Academic Libraries \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Looking Outward to Community, For-Profit, and International Organizations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Evaluating Needs and Measuring Success  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e It includes templates, sample policy language, budgets, survey instruments, and other immediately useful tools and examples. There are field notes from academic librarians from institutions of varying sizes and resources demonstrating different ways of supporting these students, and the voices of students themselves.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despite these hurdles, there are many others who have not been able to find a way. \u003ci\u003eSupporting Student Parents \u003c\/i\u003eis a guide to engaging with and aiding the student parents in your libraries and leading the charge in making your institutions more family friendly.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologues\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. The Higher Education Landscape\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Discovering Student Parents\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Pieces of the Puzzle\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Uphill Battle, Part 1: Getting By\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Uphill Battle, Part 2: Officialdom\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. The Role of Academic Libraries\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. What We Know\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Changing Landscape\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Building a Space for Student Parents\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Graduate Student Parents\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Looking Outward\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. What Others Are Doing\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. What Four-Year Institutions Can Learn from Community and For-Profit Institutions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. International Examples\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Evaluating. Needs and Measuring Success\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. A Look Under the Hood\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Attending to Outliers\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. STEM Backpacks\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C. Family Study Room\u003cbr\u003e Appendix D. Boise State Student Survey Methodology\u003cbr\u003e Appendix E: 2022 Boise State Parenting Students Survey Instrument\u003cbr\u003e Appendix F. Matching Assessment Tools to Questions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix G. Getting to Answers: A Worksheet to Guide Assessment with Parenting Students\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Author Biographies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"ACRL","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653065077016,"sku":"9798892555531","price":65.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/supporting-student-parents-in-the-academic-library-designing-spaces-policies-and-services-paperback-softback-9798892555531","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}