Tag Archives: young adults
“Opportunity to Advocate”
I feel like I don’t do as much with teen services as I could, and I know that I don’t do quite as much as I used to. Part of it’s because I figured that scaled-back programming might work better (and so far it has), and because I’ve already got a lot of other job [...]
GPLS Teen Conference 2008
This past Friday, I had the distinct pleasure of presenting twice at the Georgia Public Library Service Teen Conference at Macon State College in Macon, GA. I discussed the teen theme for the 2009 Collaborative Summer Library Program (“Express Yourself @ Your Library”) and the variety of program ideas that go along with it. Among [...]
Back to school
My fall semester of grad school starts today. I’m both really excited and really worried, since I’ll be taking three classes and still working full time. While this will let me graduate in May rather than August, I’m nervous about how well I’ll manage the courseload. A coworker of mine did the same thing and [...]
“OurSpace, TheirSpace”
I finally decided to upload one of my conference presentations to SlideShare. This particular presentation (“OurSpace, TheirSpace: Libraries, Young Adults, and Social Networking”) was given at the Georgia Public Library Service Teen Conference in December 2007, and it was essentially the result of a semester’s worth of research about the subject. Please note that the [...]
Sex Education and YA
Two articles worth reading, especially if you work with teens and young adults:
“The mystery and the act: Towards a YA human sexuality collection,” by Tori Weesner, in the online journal Progressive Librarian.
“Sex education and the American public library: A study of collection development, reference services, and programming for young adults,” by Rebecca J. Cohen, [...]
This is… Facebook?
Now here’s an interesting use of social networking software. Apparently members of a particular Facebook group — numbering close to 30,000 — jotted “THIS IS SPARTA” in the essay portion of their AP Literature exam books and then crossed it out (as all test-takers are instructed when they don’t want something they’ve written to be [...]
Teen services and specialization
Two interesting articles about library services to teens, if you haven’t read them already:
The Transparent Library : Embracing Library Services to Teens by Michael Casey and Michael Stephens
What Would Madison Avenue Do? Marketing to Teens by Anastasia Goodstein (discovered via Librarian in Black)
And here’s a related question — what do you think about the fact [...]
High on Reader’s Advisory
Actual conversation at the Help Desk with a customer (girl between the ages of 13 and 16) from yesterday:
Me: Can I help you?
Customer: Yeah, you know the books Glass and Crank?
Me: Yeah, did you want to know if we have those in?
Customer: No, I already checked and they’re not, but I was wondering if you [...]
NIN and ILI for YA
Yeah, I was curious how many abbreviations I could squeeze into that post title.
Anyway, here’s a great idea from Jeff over at Alt Teen Services:
Teaching information literacy skills is an important role for YA librarians. Educating teens about such issues as intellectual property rights, digital rights management (DRM) and the law can often come across [...]