Providing library services to teens learning English as a second language Area I and Area VI of Young Adults Deserve the Best: Competencies for Librarians Serving Youth.
http://pdfs.voya.com/VO/YAY/VOYAYASpaces.pdf
VOYA’s online version of its “YA Spaces of Your Dreams” column. Highlights exemplary teen spaces in libraries around the country and tells the story of how they have achieved this goal.
http://www.pps.org/tcb/teen_central.htm
Project for Public Spaces – Community Builders: Teens Turning Spaces Around.
Shows pictures of Burton Barr Library’s Teen Central space in Phoenix, AZ, and explains how and why Teen Central came to be.
Anderson, Sheila. Serving Older Teens. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
Anderson’s book details various aspects of serving older teens and, according to Anthony Bernier, PhD., and Director of Teen Services at the Oakland Public Library, “[Its] treatment of space is dispersed throughout the text as it teaches about spatial uses and applications,” making it useful reading material to consider in a more general way, as well.
Jones, Patrick. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries. 2nd ed. New York: Neal- Schuman, 1998.
The guru of all things YA offers suggestions on various aspects of why libraries need teens and teens need libraries and ways to reach this often overlooked segment of the library population.
Jones, Patrick, Mary Kay Chelton and Joel Shoemaker. Do It Right: Best Practices for Serving Young Adults in School and Public Libraries. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001.
In addition to general practical advice pertaining to programming and customer service for teens in school media centers and libraries, this book offers a chapter to help create new space for this segment of the population or to re-design space for them in existing library spaces.
Lushington, Nolan. Libraries Designed for Users: A 21st Century Guide. New York: Neal- Schuman, 2002.
Examines ideas and provides recommendations for designing and/or remodeling in libraries. Includes section on “teen centers.”
MacRae, Cathy Dunn. “A Library Where Silence Is Banned.” VOYA Reader 2. Ed. Mary Kay Chelton and Dorothy M. Broderick. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Originally published as an article in VOYA (vol. 19, 1996 – pages 7-12), MacRae’s chapter in VOYA Reader 2 provides descriptive and analytical perspectives of spaces for teens.
Taney, Kimberly Bolan. Teen Spaces: The Step-By-Step Library Makeover. Chicago: ALA, 2003.
Includes creative and practical suggestions for creating or redesigning spaces to be used specifically for teens in libraries. Appendix A is an actual worksheet pertaining to “Space Need.”
Vaillancourt, Renee. Bare Bones Young Adult Services: Tips for Public Library Generalists. Chicago: ALA, 2000.
Includes a chapter entitled, “Creating a Young Adult Space” (pages 29-35) that details ideas and plans for creating inviting atmospheres for young adults.
Vandermark, Sondra. Planning the Modern Public Library Building. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2003.
Chapter “Using Teen Patrons as a Resource in Planning Young Adult Library Space in Public Libraries” focuses on how teens can be instrumental in designing spaces for teens in library building projects.
Bernier, Anthony. “Los Angeles Public Library’s TeenS’cape Takes on the ‘New callousness.’” VOYA 23:3 (Aug. 2000), 190-181.
Teen spaces specialist Bernier highlights “nation’s first real teen space,” TeenS’cape.
Bernier, Anthony. “The Case Against Libraries As ‘Safe Places.’” VOYA, 26.3 (Aug. 2003), 198-199.
Written as a response to VOYA’s February 2003 theme issue, “Libraries As Safe Havens for Teens,” touches on various issues, including ways to make libraries more accessible for teens without the issue of deeming them “safe havens.”
Bernier, Anthony. “On My Mind: Young Adult Spaces.” American Libraries, Oct 1998, v 29 no9, p. 52.
Focuses on design elements author feels are required “to harmonize with the way teens sit, study, relax, read, and socialize.”
Brun, M. C. “Un sectuer adolescents: l’experience de Chambery. A Young People’s Section: the Experience of Chambery.” Bulletin d'Informations de l'Association des Bibliothecaires Francais, (Fourth Quarter) 1994, 165, p.43-4.
Discusses a project in France where a special section for “young people” (ages 11-16) was specifically built into the new library’s plans. Examines the positive effects of this “space” issue in this particular project.
Caywood, Carolyn. “Giving Back to the Community.” Young Adult Library Services: The Journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association, Winter 2002, 1 (2), p.16-17.
Article discusses what teens can get from libraries and how they can contribute to libraries. Includes teens’ explanations for why they need space away from younger children in these settings.
Curry, A. and U. Schwaiger. “The Balance Between Anarchy and Control.” School Libraries in Canada, 1999, 19 (1), p.9-12.
Discusses special challenges that teens present to school libraries and how the library’s role for teens may impact design. Notes the importance of realizing the psychological factors connected to teen spaces in libraries, including places to be alone; symbolic ownership; accessible places; unsupervised, yet safe places; lifestyles; consumer aspects; music; and access to computers.
Myers, E. “The Coolness Factor: Ten Libraries Listen to Youth.” American Libraries, Nov. 1999, 30 (10) p.42-5.
Addresses what libraries need to do to be “cool” and appealing to teens, including what separate spaces for teens should be like. [Also available online through the Urban Libraries Council at http://www.urbanlibraries.org/coolnessfactor.html.]
O’ Driscoll, Janis. “A Recipe for Young Adult Spaces and Services.” Voice of Youth Advocates, Apr 2000, v 23 no1, p. 27.
Recounts author’s library system’s “recipe” for successful teen programs and spaces.
http://www.lori.ri.gov/youthserv/yart/ya_space.php
Space Planning for Young Adult Areas
This website contains a list of books, articles, and one functional website to help professionals create inviting and invigorating teen spaces in libraries.
http://www.eastgreenbushlibrary.org/teen/yalibs.asp
East Greenbush Community Library’s YA Library Resources Selected Bibliography.
YA Lib Resources. Includes books and websites that offer advice on creating teen spaces, as well as collection development and other issues.
www.ala.org/ala/pla/plaevents/nationalconf/program/thursdayprograms/mrbibliography.doc
Teen Spaces and Marketing to Teens: A Selected Bibliography.
Compiled by Kimberly Bolan Taney and Lisa C. Wemett, this list highlights articles and books pertinent to the development of teen spaces and marketing library services to teens.
International Youth and Public Space Network’s YSPACE
Collection of sites that pertain to youth services spaces in libraries around the world.
http://tinyurl.com/42lwy
Teen Spaces in Public Libraries
A list of published articles, as well as papers and presentations by Anthony Bernier, a specialist in the area of YA Spaces.