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YALSA Pre-Conference: Serving Today’s Diverse Teens
Hi! I’m Nick Franklin, a YA Librarian and manager at Brooklyn Public Library, guest-blogging from the ALA Mid-winter Conference in Denver, CO. In my regular work life, I work with a diverse population of teenagers in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. As such, I thought that attending a Pre-Conference YALSA Institute discussion entitled “Serving [...]
Think Outside the Book: Online Service as Outreach
Think Outside the Book seemed like two totally different presentations. I found the latter part, after a portion of the audience had disappeared, most addressed my library’s teen issues. (The presentation was in much too large a room anyway.) Sarah Cofer, the Teen Librarian at Worthington Libraries, Ohio, told about how she and the other [...]
Sunday at ALA
Sunday was a very busy day full of programs. Nancy Pearl First I arrive bright and early to see Nancy Pearl speak. It was fascinating to hear how each of her books came into being, especially her lastest book, Book Crush. She gave some suggestions of books for children and teens such as : Sunshine [...]
Bienvenue to New Orleans!
Hey y’all! I’m Anne Robert, a children’s librarian who works with the Jacksonville (FL) Library. I am a native Louisianaian; I lived in Baton Rouge (about 90 miles north of N’awlins) for 22 years. It’s great to be back in New Orleans – except for the humidity (one thing I don’t miss!). I arrived here [...]
Karaoke Night
Karaoke Night 030 Originally uploaded by Weymouth Public Library. Karaoke night at the Weymouth Public Library (MA). See more on their Photoset. They also have a blog for their teens, with comments open. Very cool.
Teen Poetry Night a Success on Many Levels
“life is a never-ending coil with twists and turns and you are one thing that I did not count on” – quite simply, you are a parallel revolution Brooke Shippee The Johnson County Library (Kansas) holds a monthly teen poetry night. After reading about it in one of their local online papers, I contacted the [...]
YALSA Video Game Night
This should be an annual event. Game Crazy came and set up: Dance Dance Revolution (Mario mix and Ultramix 3) Donkey Konga Guitar Hero Karoake Revolution Madden 2005 Prince of Persia Tekken and more! Goodie bags including a card game, xbox lanyard, stickers, coupons, pens. A bunch of games got raffled off at 8 PM [...]
Linda Braun: The Three C’s of Teens…
YALSA Teens & Technology Institute Linda Braun: The Three C’s of Teens: Community, Collaboration, Creation Linda Braun, author of many books and articles, teacher at 2 library schools, and fan of the Gilmore Girls, began with an exercise to prove you can be whoever you want to be online, and to show in a somewhat [...]
YALSA Teens & Technology; Anthony Bernier, Laying the Groundwork
“This is a historic event” said Pam Spencer Holly, YALSA President in her welcome to the 80+ participants at the TNT institute. Linda Braun introduced the committe behind the program, presented the agenda and thanked our sponsors (Rosen, Gamecrazy, Up to Date, Alliance/Diamond Comics) before Jana Fine introduced the first speaker, Dr. Anthony Bernier. Anthony [...]
The Little Division That Could
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) annual meeting and President’s Program was Monday afternoon. Although there were envelopes stuffed with program handouts, there were only 100 copies of most items, and there were well over 125 people in the room. I was fortunate to snag an evaluation, a copy of the annual report, and [...]
