2004, ISBN: 9780838908617

Braun, an educational technology consultant with LEO: Librarians and Educators Online and author of Hooking Teens with the Net, offers ideas and planning tools for encouraging youth pa… Plus…

Braun, an educational technology consultant with LEO: Librarians and Educators Online and author of Hooking Teens with the Net, offers ideas and planning tools for encouraging youth participation in libraries by involving young people in technology-related projects. Using the Search Institute's philosophy of developmental assets, an approach that has become increasingly popular in youth services literature, Braun emphasizes the importance of including young people in every stage of the planning and implementation process. The projects she outlines include having young adults build web sites for the library board or Friends group; organizing chat sessions about library policies and services; creating online tutorials to teach seniors or kids how to use computers; teaching younger kids how to add online pictures to reports; developing fan sites and book-related web logs (blogs); producing email newsletters for the library; and researching wireless technology and making recommendations to the library administration. Each project is accompanied by a checklist for designating responsibilities and following through on necessary steps, but much of the other information (about developmental assets and levels of participation) is repeated with each project and might have been better left to an appendix. Many of the projects are described in general terms, discussing why kids might be interested in such a project and what they might get out of it. An appendix lists examples of six organizations that have used youth participation in technology projects; only two of them are libraries. Braun's book would have benefited from more detailed profiles of actual library programs to demonstrate how such projects might actually work. Many public libraries, for example, are bound by their municipality's overall technology plan and must depend upon nonlibrary staff to upgrade or alter the library's computer services. While Braun does address these sorts of stumbling blocks, she does so only superficially. Still, there are enough good ideas here to inspire librarians to adapt some of the projects to their own circumstances. Libraries that have the resources and institutional support for new technology projects will find this a source of good ideas and practical suggestions for involving young people in library services.-Rachel Q. Davis, Thomas Memorial Lib., Cape Elizabeth, ME Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Reference>Non-Fiction,Tech Writing>Nonfict,Tech Writing, ALA Editions Core >1<

ISBN: 9780838908617

Filled with success stories, examples, and a wealth of potential teen library technology programs, Technically Involved librarians a proactive toolkit for harnessing teen energy with tech… Plus…

Filled with success stories, examples, and a wealth of potential teen library technology programs, Technically Involved librarians a proactive toolkit for harnessing teen energy with technology for the library. Linda W. Braun, Books, Reference and Language, Technically Involved: Technology-based Youth Participation Activities For Your Library Books>Reference and Language Filled with success stories, examples, and a wealth of potential teen library technology programs, "Technically Involved librarians a proactive toolkit for harnessing teen energy with technology for the library.<

ISBN: 9780838908617

Linda W. Braun,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by ALA Editions Books Books ~~ Language Arts~~ Library & Information Science ~~ General Technically-Involved~~Linda-W-Braun ALA Edit… Plus…

Linda W. Braun,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by ALA Editions Books Books ~~ Language Arts~~ Library & Information Science ~~ General Technically-Involved~~Linda-W-Braun ALA Editions Filled with success stories, examples, and a wealth of potential teen library technology programs, "Technically Involved librarians a proactive toolkit for harnessing teen energy with technology for the library.<

ISBN: 9780838908617

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