Young Adult Library Services, Collections, and Programs

Professional Resources

American Library Association Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

The YALSA web page includes links to awards for young adult literature, grants for young adult programs, information about Teen Read Week, and annotated lists of best books, DVD's and videos, and audio books for young adults. www.ala.org/yalsa/

Connecting Young Adults and Libraries

Patrick Jones' comprehensive web sites includes links to public library web pages for young adults, teen summer reading club web pages, information about young adult programs, resources, services, and grant opportunities, information about Patrick Jones' workshops, presentations, and publications, and much more. www.connectingya.com

High School Hub

A comprehensive portal to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm

Internet Public Library's Teen Division

Links to fun and educational sites for teens. www.ipl.org/teen/

Teen Read Week

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Teen Read Week web page features a wealth of teen programming ideas and resources. http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Teen_Read_Week

Texas Library Association Young Adult Round Table (YART)

This web site features the titles on the Lone Star Reading List and the Tayshas High School Reading List. www.txla.org/groups/yart/yart.html

YALSA Gaming Lists and Activities

http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Gaming_Lists_%26_Activities

This YALSA web page includes a top 50 list of games and activities. It also includes the content for a brochure entitled Why Gaming @ your library which includes discussion of why libraries should be involved with teens in virtual communities.

YALSA Teen Tech Week

http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Teen_Tech_Week

The first annual Teen Tech Week was celebrated for the first time March 4-10, 2007. Teen Tech Week is a national initiative by YALSA aimed at teens, their parents, educators and other concerned adults. The purpose is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries. The "Activities" section of the web page has some great ideas for going virtual at your library.

YALSA Wiki

Features great information for teen librarians, including a list of professional development opportunities. http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Main_Page

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