Faculty who specialize in youth services
Dr. Pat Feehan's areas of teaching include management of libraries, children's and young adult materials, public libraries, and public library services to youth, literacy, and storytelling. She has been a library administrator, youth services manager, and a statewide consultant for public libraries.
Penny Hayne teaches Materials for Early Childhood. She is active in several library and education organizations. Her professional interests include integrating literature across the curriculum, using literature to enhance a school's writing program, establishing collaborative literature units with the arts, inquiry learning, and family literacy programs.
Elizabeth Miller supervises school library media interns.
Dr. Jamie Naidoo teaches courses in children's literature, materials and services for early childhood, and library services to minority youth. He has worked in both school and public libraries as a school library media specialist in a PreK-2 elementary school and as the Coordinator of Juvenile Services in a public library. His research interests include the representation of minority populations in children's literature and media, reader responses of minority youth, and bibliotherapy practices and procedures.
Dr. Anne Perrault
Dr. Donna Shannon's current research interests include the impact of education reform and technology on school library media programs, children's responses to literature and the education of school library media specialists. She coordinates the youth services program.
Dr. Nancy Zimmerman teaches courses on educational services in libraries, school library media, children's and young adult's materials and services, and information ethics. She also does research in the area of education for librarianship, information ethics, and school library media centers.
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Augusta Baker Chair in Childhood Literacy
A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen is an annual festival that is sponsored by the Richland County Public Library and the University of South Carolina's College of Library and Information Science. It brings to South Carolina the world of storytelling and children's literature. The event honors the work and achievements of nationally known author and storyteller Augusta Baker. 
South Carolina Center for Children's Books and Literacy (formerly the BEST Center).
The University of South Carolina Children's Center provides care for young children. The Children's Center fulfills a very exciting mission on the Columbia Campus. It offers high quality childcare and education for young children, ages six weeks through six years, from families of a wide range of educational and economic backgrounds associated with the University and the neighboring community. The center reflects standards of best practice as articulated by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) .
The South Carolina Library Association - Services for Children and Youth in Schools and Public Libraries is designed to promote improved library service to the state's children and young people by providing opportunities for its members to increase their understanding of the library needs of children and young people, their knowledge of materials and services, their awareness of current issues that affect and interest their patrons, and their working skills as facilitators of the educational process and as specialists in public libraries and schools.
SCASL - The South Carolina Association of School Librarians promotes and improves school library media programs and school library media services, and cooperates with state and national library and educational organizations in promoting the welfare of children and youth. It is designed to act as an interpreter of school library media programs to all educators, encouraging administrators, teachers, and library media specialists to provide the best possible library media experience.
Plus, some useful divisions of the American Library Association:
ALSC: Association for Library Service to Children
YALSA: Young Adult Library Services Association
AASL: American Association of School Librarians
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