Includes bibliographical references and index.

Who are urban teens, and what does "urban" mean, anyway? / Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell -- Moving beyond the stereotypes: seeing urban teenagers as individuals / Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Lewis Hassell, and Denise E. Agosto -- Revamping library services to meet urban teens' everyday life information needs and preferences / Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell -- Developing a leisure reading program that is relevant and responsive to the lives of urban teenagers : insights from research / Sandra Hughes-Hassell -- Street lit: before you can recommend it, you have to understand it / Vanessa J. Irvin Morris, with Denise E. Agosto and Sandra Hughes-Hassell -- Urban teens, online social networking, and library services / June Abbas and Denise E. Agosto -- Urban teens and their use of public libraries / Denise E. Agosto -- Public library websites and urban teenagers' health information needs / Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Dana Hanson-Baldauf -- Spacing out with young adults: translating YA space concepts into practice / Anthony Bernier -- Youth development and evaluation: lessons from "Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development" / Elaine Meyers -- The loft at Imaginon: a new-generation library for urban teens / Michele Gorman, Amy Wyckoff, and Rebecca L. Buck -- Before it's reading, it's writing: urban teens as authors in the public library / Autumn Winters and Elizabeth J. Gregg -- Following and leading teens online: using digital library services to reach urban teens / Kara Reuter ---et al.

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