PAGES has a great article on service to teens in public libraries.
“Libraries have to start becoming community centers and move away from the white ivory tower type place where you’re only allowed to go in there for the information you need and you have to be quiet,” he says. “That bun-head thinking is going to kill this public library world.”
It goes on to say that until teen services are considered as important as children’s services, we are not doing enough as libraries to serve them.