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Download full textDowd, Frances Smardo – 1992
This digest discusses ways in which public libraries deal with latchkey children who spend their after-school hours at public libraries while their parents are at work. Research conducted in 1990 of 110 public libraries revealed that almost all libraries encountered unattended children after school hours, and that most libraries surveyed were not…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Foreign Countries, Latchkey Children, Librarians
