Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2009

Publication Title

Public Libraries

Volume

48

Issue Number

5

First Page

33

Last Page

47

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Abstract

While young adults (teenagers) are routinely recognized as constituting nearly 25 percent of the nation's public library users, the vast majority of libraries devote more space and design attention to restrooms than to young people. Worse, there are currently no consistent or established metrics, no evaluation criteria, few conceptual standards of best practices, and little consistency in the methods by which we collect empirical evidence about young adult (YA) spaces. This study is the first systematic attempt to both collect and analyze empirical data on libraries' recent trend toward providing greater spatial equity for YA library service.

Comments

The original article was published in 2009 in Public Libraries.

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