Evaluating Teen Services and Programs

by Sarah Flowers

Overview

Flowers offers guidance for librarians in examining all aspects of teen programming and services to determine where improvement is needed. Readers will learn how to

• Develop goals and objectives for evaluation
• Collect the data for a realistic picture of a library's strengths and weaknesses
• Use many different types of data with the help of practical examples included in the text
• Evaluate YA collections, summer reading programs, special events, and library staff

This guide comes with an explanation of the YALSA competencies, the YALSA teen services evaluation tool, and models for what excellent teen services programs should look like. Ready-to-use evaluation forms and checklists save time and resources by improving assessment methods in minutes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555707934
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	05/31/2012
Series:	Teens @ the Library
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Sarah Flowers recently retired as Deputy County Librarian for the Santa Clara County Library in California. She has written articles and reviews for Voice of Youth Advocates and School Library Journal, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Young Adult Library Services, YALSA’s quarterly journal. She was elected 2011-12 president of YALSA. She was a member of the first class of Library Journal’s “Movers and Shakers,” and was named one of the top 40 distinguished alumni of the San Jose State School of Library and Information Science. She has worked as a young adult librarian, a supervisor of adult and young adult services, and a community librarian as a branch manager.