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A 15 page research paper that offers a comprehensive overview of Youth Services Librarians, their responsibilities, and trend towards making homework centers part of youth services department in public libraries. Today, many public libraries offer homework assistance programs. Not only are these programs safe and welcome havens for children and adolescents after school, but they are frequently the only places where students can turn to get needed assistance on assignments, since so many parents both work full time and have limited English skills (Mediavilla, 2003). The following examination of homework centers in public libraries specifically focuses on the attributes of successful centers, as well as the roles played by youth librarians in their functioning. Bibliography lists 25 sources.
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where students can turn to get needed assistance on assignments, since so many parents both work full time and have limited English skills (Mediavilla, 2003). The following examination of homework
centers in public libraries specifically focuses on the attributes of successful centers, as well as the roles played by youth librarians in their functioning. "Youth services librarianship" is a
term that encompasses all library services that offered to youth, children to young adults, ages "zero to eighteen," bot in school and in public library settings (Jenkins, 2000, p. 103).
In an exhaustive study of American public libraries that was conducted in the late 1940s, it is observed that the childrens room is "one of the busiest, as well as
one of the pleasantest places in the library" and the report credits childrens librarians as being the primary influence for the development of modern childrens literature (Jenkins, 2000). From that
beginning, library youth services has involved and today is facing new horizons and challenges via the prevalent of homework centers. While students have been using public libraries as locations
in which to do their homework for probably as long as public libraries have been around, formal homework centers are a relatively new phenomenon (Minkel, 2002). Homework centers in public
libraries come complete with materials, but, more importantly, they offer staff who are there to tutor children and young adults (Minkel, 2002). Homework staff answer "knotty questions" (Minkel, 2002,
p. 39). Most centers were started with grants and many library professionals, such as youth services director Penny Markey consider them to be an essential tool for aiding students in
todays complicated and diverse population. She says, "They are making a difference in the lives of the kids, most of all the latchkey kids" (Minkel, 2002, p. 39). Examples
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