Magazines: What Teens Really Want
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• teens cite magazines as their favorite non-book reading material

• 15-18 year olds read magazines for an average of 13 minutes each day
  

• 63% of teen boys and 55% of teen girls read a magazine in any given day   

        (SmartGirl and Young Adult Library Services Association, Teen Read Week 2003 Survey)

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This website will help librarians build or enhance teen magazine collections. It is oriented toward public libraries, but is applicable to schools as well. Kasia Hopkins, Jenny Snow and Kathleen Weibel developed the site as a class project for LIS 506 Youth Services Librarianship, Fall 2005, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.