What Do Young Adults Want in Their School Library?.

Higgins, Wanda

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ERIC Number: EJ593563

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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What Do Young Adults Want in Their School Library?

Higgins, Wanda

Book Report, v18 n2 p25-27 Sep-Oct 1999

Offers suggestions to make high school libraries more appealing to students, based on results of a student survey. Highlights include comfortable furniture; decorated walls; community information; limiting rules, including the amount of noise allowed; friendly staff; longer hours; more varied programs, including outside speakers; orientation sessions; and computer access. (LRW)

Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Furniture, High School Students, High Schools, Library Instruction, Library Personnel, Library Research, Library Services, School Libraries, Student Surveys, User Needs (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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