The female-friendly public library: gender differences in adolescents' uses and perceptions of U.S. public libraries.
From: Library Trends
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Date: 9/22/2007
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Author: Agosto, Denise E.; Ipock, Gretchen S.; Paone, Kimberly L.
ABSTRACT
This article reports the results of a written survey of ninety-seven female and male adolescents, ages fourteen through seventeen, at two U.S. public libraries. In addition to exploring gender-related variance in the reasons for which teenagers use public libraries, the survey investigated how frequently the respondents needed information relating to twelve major topic areas and how useful they considered public libraries in helping them to find information relating to ...
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