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8.2 Adjacencies 8.3 Design Issues 8.4 Components and Furnishings publish date: 14 March 2000
8.0 Young Adult Area8.1 Function
The Young Adult Area is an informal, comfortable, attractive area for teenagers where they can find materials of a personal, information and recreation nature, and which they identify as their own.
Reference/information area
Media and science fiction collections
The area should have a distinct visual identity.
Ideally, the access route to the young adult area should pass the reference/information desk so that young adults can be greeted and acknowledged.
The area should be visually supervised from the reference/information desk.
Sound buffering of the area is required and it should not be located adjacent to the quieter areas of the library.
The area should not be adjacent to the children's area.
The collection will include paperbacks, hardbacks, graphic novels (oversize) and magazines. Some of the materials will be housed on face out shelving.
The design needs to incorporate space for displays and an area for distributing brochures and other information of interest to teenagers.
Seating should be both informal and formal, with either lounge chairs or space to sit on the floor as well as a four person square table.
Shelving, including face out units
Bulletin board or tackable surfaces
Slot wall and acrylic distribution bins
Four place square table if branch large enough
Lounge seating