图书馆与信息研究硕士-青年服务

青年（儿童和/或年轻人）服务是专业图书馆实践活动的一个领域，其重点是在公共图书馆环境中满足儿童，年轻人及其照顾者的信息，娱乐，教育和文化需求。这个多样化的领域包括面向19岁以下未成年人的图书馆服务。最适合此重点领域的学生是那些喜欢与广泛的青年及其照顾者一起工作，与不同的客户互动，从事创造性活动（例如木偶，传统和数字故事讲述，戏剧，戏剧，诗歌大满贯，口语）的学生。等），并规划与扫盲相关的计划。一些青年服务的图书馆员仅与青少年一起工作，另一些仅与儿童一起工作，还有一些则同时针对两个年龄段。
Youth (Children and/or Young Adult) Services is an area of professional library practice centered on serving the informational, recreational, educational, and cultural needs of children, young adults, and their caregivers within a public library setting. This diverse area includes library services to youth ages birth up to nineteen. Students most suited to this area of emphasis are those that enjoy working with a wide range of youth and their caregivers, interacting with diverse clientele, engaging in creative activities (such as puppetry, traditional and digital storytelling, dramatic play, poetry slams, spoken word, etc.), and planning literacy-related programs. Some youth services librarians only work with teens, others only work with children, and still others work with both age groups. SLIS Alumni concentrating in this area of emphasis have been employed in the following roles: Coordinator of Youth Services, Outreach Librarian, State Library Youth Services Consultant, Education Librarian, Young Adult Services Coordinator, Children's Services Manager, Children's Services Associate, Branch Manager, Library Director, and Children's Author.<br><br>Youth services librarians generally possess three broad categories of professional skills: collection development and readers' advisory, service and program planning and management, and community outreach. Collection development and readers' advisory skills embody a broad, working knowledge of children's and young adult print and digital materials, an ability to use specially-designed collection development and reference resources to develop a rich collection of these materials, and an understanding of the reading interests of contemporary youth. Service and program planning and management skills exemplify an understanding of how to manage the day-to-day operations of the youth services department in a public library, how to determine the informational needs of diverse youth and develop appropriate library services, and how to create engaging library programs that connect contemporary youth with library collections via booktalking, read-alikes, hands-on activities, etc. Finally, community outreach skills include the ability to connect library collections, services, and programs to the larger community, local nonprofit organizations serving youth, and specific populations that may be unable to physically visit the library. Within all three categories of professional skills is an underlying ability to reach and serve culturally diverse populations.