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Library Associations and Organizations

American Library Association, Libraries Build Sustainable Communities (Resources): http://www.ala.org/sustainablecommunities/res_books.html

Public Library Association, Preschool Literacy Initiative: Public Libraries Help Children Start School Ready to Learn. Links to organizations with resources to support preschool learning: http://www.pla.org/preschool.html

Urban Libraries Council, Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development. Exemplifies a collaborative approach to the issues of teenagers: http://www.urbanlibraries.org/youth.html

Colorado State Library, Library Research Service. Provides a range of useful tools for library planners: http://www.lrs.org/

Foundations 

The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States, sponsors Kids Count, a
national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in
the United States: http://www.aecf.org

The Search Institute, dedicated to raising caring and responsible children and teenagers, centers its research around 40 developmental assets (both internal and external) and ways to create "asset-rich communities": http://www.search-institute.org/

Government

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start Bureau: http://www2.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/index.htm?/

Early Head Start National Resource Center: http://www.ehsnrc.org/

Readings

Ethel Himmel and William James Wilson. Planning for Results: A Public Library Transformation Process: The Guidebook. Chicago: ALA, 1998.

Rochelle Logan, "Ready, Set, Plan! Community Analysis Help Online," Public Libraries 39 (July/August 2000): 220-223.

Kathleen Staerkel, Marry Fellow, and Sue McCleaf Nespeca, eds. Youth Services Librarians as Managers: A How-To Guide from Budgeting to Personnel. Chicago: American Library Association, 1992.

Herb Steven. Using Children's Books in Preschool Settings. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1994.

Ray Suarez, "Five Views of the Library's Role in a Rapidly Changing World," American Libraries (June/July 2000). 

Virginia Walter, "The Once and Future Library: Ten Ways to Create Libraries That Will Meet the Needs of Tomorrow's Children," School Library Journal 47 (Jan. 2001): 48-53.

Virginia Walter, Output Measures for Public Library Service to Children. Chicago: American Library Association, 1992.