What Kids Are Waiting For and What We Can Do about It: Eight Children's Specialists Spell Out What Kids Need Now and How We Can Help.

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ERIC Number: EJ547746

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Publication Date: 1997

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What Kids Are Waiting For and What We Can Do about It: Eight Children's Specialists Spell Out What Kids Need Now and How We Can Help.

American Libraries, v28 n6 p82-83,85,87,89 Jun-Jul 1997

Discusses ways that libraries can improve children's library services, including offering family activities; exposing children to books; creating a secure, comfortable environment; reinforcing and improving self-esteem; offering programs to improve reading skills; and developing imagination. Offers intellectual freedom policies for collection development and electronic media, and suggestions for academic librarians. (LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Childrens Libraries, Family Involvement, Higher Education, Imagination, Intellectual Freedom, Library Collection Development, Library Facilities, Library Policy, Library Services, Program Improvement, Reading Improvement, Reading Skills, Self Esteem

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Language: English

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