Health Information for Youth: The Public Library and School Library Media Center Role - Couverture rigide

Lukenbill, W. Bernard; Immroth, Barbara Froling

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1591585082 ISBN 13 : 9781591585084

Editeur : Libraries Unlimited Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Well-known authors, W. Bernard Lukenbill and Barbara Froling Immroth, provide an introduction to a difficult topic. This book covers the general status of youth healthcare, the issues and concerns providing a model of health delivery, and their relationship to the school and public library. Public and school librarians and their clientele will appreciate this straightforward approach to finding and selecting consumer information on health related topics. School librarians will find resources to help teachers who are being asked to teach consumer health classes.

Students, librarians, teachers, parents, and caregivers in need of information that addresses health issues encountered by youth will find it in this inclusive book on the topic. Public and school librarians will appreciate discussions of issues related to the general status of healthcare for youth, delivery systems, and locations of consumer information and methods to select and manage the collection of health information materials.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

W. Bernard Lukenbill, Professor, The Information School, University of Texas at Austin, holds a BS degree from North Texas University, an MLS from the University of Oklahoma, and a PhD from Indiana University. He has been a high school librarian and has authored other books for Libraries Unlimited.

Barbara Froling Immroth holds an AB from Brown, an MLS from Denver University, and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. She has both public library and school library experience. She is a past president of the Association for Library Services to Children, the Texas Library Association, and Beta Phi Mu International Library and Information Science Honor Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Libraries Unlimited Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1591585082
• ISBN 13: 9781591585084
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: WordUnited GmbH; distribution@wordunited.com; ; Theodorstrasse 105; DUSSELDORF; 40472; Allemagne