Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 212
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-5381-7555-2 • Hardback • December 2024 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-5381-7556-9 • Paperback • December 2024 • $35.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-5381-7557-6 • eBook • December 2024 • $33.00 • (£25.00)
Don Latham is a professor in the School of Information at Florida State University. His research focuses on information behavior of young adults, digital literacies, and young adult literature and literacy practices, and he has published in such journals as Library Quarterly, Library and Information Science Research, Children’s Literature, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and Children’s Literature in Education. He has received research grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, OCLC/ALISE, and the Florida State University Council on Research and Creativity. He is co-editor of From Text to Epitext: Expanding Students’ Comprehension, Engagement, and Media Literacy (2021), The Information Literacy Framework: Case Studies of Successful Implementation (2020), Literacy Engagement through Peritextual Analysis (2019), and co-author of Young Adult Resources Today: Connecting Teens with Books, Music, Games, Movies, and More (2014). He teaches graduate courses in Information Needs of Children, Information Needs of Young Adults, Graphic Novels in Libraries, and in spring 2023 he will teach a special topics course on Nonfiction Resources for Children and Young Adults.
Latham provides evaluative assistance for collection development that is applicable for both public and school libraries. This is a book of great value to add to a professional collection.
— Marie Harris, branch manager, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Evaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults offerslasting tools for librarians and teachers alike to evaluate and incorporate nonfiction into lessons and programs.
— Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign