Public Libraries and Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Youth Development.

McCook, Kathleen de la Pena; Meyer, Rachel

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Publication Date: 2001

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Public Libraries and Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Youth Development.

McCook, Kathleen de la Pena; Meyer, Rachel

Public Libraries, v40 n5 p282-88 Sep-Oct 2001

Examines CCIs (Comprehensive Community Initiatives), which can help librarians expand services to young adults who live in poverty; reviews a Wisconsin plan which highlights community-based librarianship; presents a case study of a Florida CCI-based youth development project; and discusses public libraries and CCIs, and library education programs and community-based librarianship. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Library Education, Library Services, Poverty Programs, Public Libraries

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Florida; Wisconsin

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