international youth library

Interaction with National and International Library Resources

Becoming Digital: Policy Implications for Library Youth Services

AESTRACT THEAUTHOR FRAMES THE POLICY ISSUES surrounding children and digital libraries by establishing two criteria for decision making: (1) Does this policy facilitate access to information by children and young adults? and (2) Does this policy enable the library to provide better service to children and young adults? The intellectual freedom issues are discussed along with the range of respon...

An international perspective on youth gambling prevalence studies.

In the wake of rapid expansion of legal gambling internationally, studies of adolescent gambling involvement and problem gambling prevalence have been carried out in numerous jurisdictions. This paper reviews adolescent gambling prevalence studies that have been carried out in North America, Europe, and Oceania. Based on this review, work is clearly needed to assess the impact of survey methods...

Position statement on youth resistance training: the 2014 International Consensus.

The current manuscript has been adapted from the official position statement of the UK Strength and Conditioning Association on youth resistance training. It has subsequently been reviewed and endorsed by leading professional organisations within the fields of sports medicine, exercise science and paediatrics. The authorship team for this article was selected from the fields of paediatric exerc...

International Olympic Committee consensus statement on youth athletic development.

The health, fitness and other advantages of youth sports participation are well recognised. However, there are considerable challenges for all stakeholders involved-especially youth athletes-in trying to maintain inclusive, sustainable and enjoyable participation and success for all levels of individual athletic achievement. In an effort to advance a more unified, evidence-informed approach to ...

First International Workshop on Library - Centric Software Design ( LCSD ’ 05 )

The last two decades have seen an ever-growing interest in generic programming. As for most programming paradigms, there are several definitions of generic programming in use. In the simplest view generic programming is equated to a set of language mechanisms for implementing type-safe polymorphic containers, such as List in Java. The notion of generic programming that motivated the design o...