Booklist Review
This is an invaluable tool for public library trustees, administrators, and youth services librarians needing information on developing policies and procedures that encourage library use by young people and their families. It covers nine topics--the underlying philosophy that policies and procedures are meant to encourage young people to use the library, plus communications, library trustees, access, collection development, reference services, programing, library conduct, and building use--providing in each case an overview, samples of actual or model policy statements, and a bibliography. Very thorough in its coverage of areas of concern in youth services, this lacks only the interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights, "Access for Children and Young People to Videotapes and Other Nonprint Materials," in its appendixes; however, the looseleaf format makes it easy to add this and other relevant documents and to copy documents for dissemination. ~--Linda Waddle