As high school enrollment continues to rise, the need for effective librarianship serving young adults is greater than ever before. "Young Adults Deserve the Best: Competencies for Librarians Serving Youth," developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), is a document outlining eight areas of focus for providing quality library service in collaboration with teenagers. In this book, Flowers identifies and expands on these competency areas. This useful work includes - Anecdotes and success stories from the field - Guidelines that can be used to create evaluation instruments,...

Here is a guide that provides basic information to help teen/youth services librarians, library directors, library school students studying teen services, and middle/high school librarians examine all aspects of their teen programs and services to determine where improvement is needed. Find out what you need to develop goals and objectives for evaluation and learn how to collect the data that will give you a realistic picture of your library's strengths and weaknesses. You will get practical examples of how to use many different types of data: numerical and subjective data, output measures,...