| Abstract: | Promoting lifelong reading, learning, and library use is a goal of most youth-serving librarians. The Young Adult Services
Department of the Mesa, Arizona, Public Library is finding that more teens are entering adulthood each year as library users
and supporters, and they are bringing their children to the library, too. This article shares a YA librarian's perspectives
on how to provide successful reader advisory for teens and how to get young adults to read on their own, building the foundation
of a lifelong interest in reading, an interest passed from generation to generation. Building this foundation depends on dedicated,
well-trained specialists in YA library service, the publication of well-written and attractive books for teens, school and
public library administrative support.
Diane P. Tuccillo has been head of the Young Adults Services Adult Services Department at the Mesa (Arizona) Public Library
since 1980. She has had articles published in a variety of professional journals includingEmergency Librarian, Voice of Young Advocates (VOYA), andThe ALAN Review, and is a regular book reviewer forVOYA, Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide, andSchool Library Journal. |
