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Drawing from a talk she gave to an international conference in Seoul, South Korea, in July 2016, the author explores major changes in services for teens both now and those expected in the future. The two most important shifts are the increasing focus on what the librarydoesover what the libraryhasand the growing emphasis on information and information services in digital forms and formats. There are other future trends, but these are paramount. Libraries that keep up or move quickly to advance their work to fit such trends will do well; those that don’t, won’t. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This study sought to collect data from teens and librarians about their preferences and recommendations for the effective design of physical library spaces for teens. Librarians and teens at twenty-two U.S. public libraries filmed narrated video tours of their young adult (YA) public library spaces. The researchers used qualitative content analysis techniques to analyze the video data and to develop a framework for guiding the design of effective YA public library spaces. In addition to providing specific recommendations for user-centered YA library space design, this study highlights the need for continued user input into the design and maintenance of YA public library spaces as teens’ needs evolve and vary across time and from community to community. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the 2012 Public Library Association Public Library Data Service (PLA PLDS), which aimed to understand library collections, expenditures and services during the year. The PLA PLDS painted a mixed picture of the current state of the Young Adult services and that while many libraries are offering services to Young Adults, only a few have dedicated staff members. On comparison with the 2007 survey, the 2012 PLA PLDS also showed an overwhelming access to library programs for teens but only two-thirds of the respondents in both years had dedicated a portion of their library web pages for Young Adult services.

This article presents preliminary findings from a research grant on the everyday life information-seeking (ELIS) behaviors of urban young adults. Twenty-seven teens aged 14 through 17 participated in the study. Qualitative data were gathered using written activity logs and semi-structured group interviews. A typology of urban teens' preferred ELIS sources, media types, and query topics is presented. The typology shows friends and family as preferred ELIS sources, cell phones as the preferred method of mediated communication, and schoolwork, time-related queries, and social life as the most common and most significant areas of ELIS. The results indicate a heavy preference for people as information sources and that urban teens hold generally unfavorable views of libraries and librarians. The conclusion lists questions that information practitioners should consider when designing programs and services for urban teens and calls for researchers to consider this often-ignored segment of the population as potential study participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the relation of Simon's behavioral decision-making theories of bounded rationality and satisficing with decision making of youth in the world wide web. Role of personal preferences in Web-based decisions; Assessment of major satisficing behaviors; Implications of the study for Web site designers.

The article focuses on the flying off young adults fiction bookshelves in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania public libraries. It traces the cultural origins of street literature emerging genre, defines it in detail, and explores why inner-city teenagers at one branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia are passionate about reading it. The authors stress that even though the stories offer little hope for a better life, street literature console the frightened and confused souls of African American teenagers essaying confirmation and validation of their lives, as well as legitimization of inner-city culture. Through urban fiction, they have become indued to employ the library, and thus street literature has reignited the vitality of the urban neighborhood library.