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Public Library Teen Space

Design as a Consequence of Intent

Av Shari Lee

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Grounded in research, this book introduces the interdisciplinary concept of social control in the built environment to LIS and explores its value in creating authentic public library teen spaces.This research study introduces a new approach to public library teen space design that broadens our understanding of how teen spaces are designed and used and how to leverage social control in the built environment as a tool in creating authentic teen spaces.As context for the research, this study begins with the history of the public library, the history of teen services, and the history of adolescence. Unlike extant LIS literature, Lee is concerned with the impact of preexisting notions of teens on the design and configuration of teen spaces and the resultant impact on teen behavior and use concerning these spaces. The value of this book lies in three separate areas. First, it introduces the interdisciplinary concept of social control in the built environment to library and information sciences. Second, it makes a significant contribution to LIS literature by providing much-needed research on teens as a user group, the history and current landscape of library services to teens, and teen space design and function. Third, it contributes to the field by linking research with practice. A unique approach to teen services and teen space design, this research study is a timely addition to the LIS literature.
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Shari Lee, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Library and Information Science at St. John’s University, USA.

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Public Library Teen Space is essential reading for practitioners and researchers with an interest in adolescence in a broad range of disciplines including sociology, education architecture, urban planning and design, as well as library and information science. The central thesis of this compelling interdisciplinary study, as suggested by the subtitle “Design as a Consequence of Intent,” is that spatial design in public libraries is never neutral. Design decisions shape how public spaces are used and are deeply influenced by expectations of how users will behave and how best that behavior can be modified and controlled to best serve the needs of the institution. Thus, most public library teen spaces are shaped by longstanding deficit views of who teens are and how they behave and by the broad expectation that teen users, particularly if they are encouraged to congregate in groups, will be disruptive and their behavior will be inappropriate. Lee explores how this essential misalignment has resulted in the spatial design of public library teen spaces that prioritize surveillance and behavioral control and which, as a consequence, teens find to be unwelcoming. While the impact of the deficit view of adolescence has previously been analyzed in relation to public library programming, services, and collections, Lee’s study is the first to undertake an in-depth exploration of the impact of this prevailing view on the design of teen spaces, and identifies the specific ways in which typical public library teen spaces so often fail to be the welcoming, flexible, and teen-centric spaces that teens desire.

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