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New on the Shelf: Teens in the Library
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New on the Shelf: Teens in the Library
The Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development Initiative and its evaluation were funded by The Wallace Foundation (formerly, Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds). We are grateful to The Wallace Foundation for its generous support of the evaluation as well as for the contributions of individual program and evaluation officers to our thinking about the role of public libraries in youth development.
We also wish to thank the many individuals of the nine participating libraries and their communities, and the staff of the Urban Libraries Council, all of whom gave generously of their time and graciously shared their challenges as well as their accomplishments with us. Without them, this evaluation and report would not be possible. We are well aware that when implementing programs with youth, sometimes the last thing anyone wants to think about is gathering more data for, or having one more interview with, the evaluation team. We always felt welcomed during our site visits and stimulated by our observations of programs and many conversations with library staff, community members, and youth.
We would also like to express appreciation for the contributions of several Chapin Hall colleagues to this report. We thank John Schuerman for his guidance on the conception and design of the evaluation, and Robert Halpern for his guidance on the analysis and interpretation of the data. We have benefited enormously from conversations with both these individuals. We also want to express appreciation for the contributions of former staff members to our work, including Samuel Whalen, Carolyn Winje, Jessica Berry, Jan DeCoursey, Joshua Kilroy, and Swati Pitale.
We also thank Joan Costello, Joan Wynn, Ada Skyles, Harold Richman, and Robert Chaskin for their advice on our design and methods and reviews of drafts of evaluation reports. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge Anne Clary for her helpful editorial advice and Patricia Bengston for her assistance in preparing this report.
© 2004 by Chapin Hall Center for Children
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