YALSA

Call for Comments on YALSA's Draft Teen Services Evaluation Tool

Posted Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by Cristina Walton, Library Staff

Call for Comments on YALSA’s Draft Teen Services Evaluation Tool

 

Deadline: November 15, 2010

 

Background:

In the fall of 2009 YALSA’s Board of Directors established a task force to develop an assessment tool primarily for library administrators and teen services librarians to use in order to evaluate an individual institution’s overall level of success in providing library services to teens.  The vision is for the document to complement YALSA’s newly updated “Competencies for Librarians Serving Youth.” The task force submitted a draft to the YALSA Board in June 2010 and made refinements based on feedback.

 

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YALSA names Teen Read Week™ Mini Grants winners

Posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 by nhouston, Library Staff

YALSA names Teen Read Week™ Mini Grants winners

Books with Beat Teen Read Week
For Immediate Release
Thu, 08/12/2010 - 17:43
Contact: Stephanie Kuenn
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announced the winners of its 10 Teen Read Week Mini Grants. The grants give each winning library $450 cash and $50 worth of official Teen Read Week products from ALA Graphics to offer inventive activities, resources and services to celebrate Teen Read Week, Oct. 17-23.
The 2010 Teen Read Week mini grants are funded by Team Teen Read Week. Thanks to Carolrhoda Lab, Random House, Scholastic, Sleeping Bear Press and Tor-Forge Books for their support of the Teen Read Week Mini Grants.
The ten winners are:
    * Michelle Barnett, Providence K-8 School, Huntsville, Ala.
    * Shannon Crawford Barniskis, Horicon (Wisc.) Public Library
    * Susan Bohn, Hononegah High School, Rockton, Ill.
    * Natalie Houston, Orange County Library System, Orlando, Fla.
    * Audrey Kantner, Lancaster (Pa.) Public Library
    * Maryrose Little, David Brearley Middle/High School, Kenilworth, N.J.
    * Ann-Marie Marchant, Provo (Utah) City Library

Do You Know of a Fabulous Film for Young Adults? Nominate Now!

Posted Friday, March 26, 2010 by nhouston, Library Staff

 

YALSA's Fabulous Films for Young Adult Committee is currently seeking out and viewing nominations for what will become YALSA's 2011 Fabulous Films For Young Adults list of recommended viewing, which will be finalized and announced in January 2011.  YALSA posts official nominations online on a monthly basis.  This month's nominated titles for YALSA's Fabulous Films For Young Adults list are now available from this web page:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/fabfilms/fabfilmnoms.cfm

We would love your feedback and participation with the 2011 list, including your nominations from the field.  If you'd like to nominate a title you feel would be a good fit for this list, please review the selection criteria on the web site at: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/fabfilms/fabfilmspolicies.cfm.  

Here is a link to the online form to send us your nomination: http://yalsa.ala.org/forms/fabfilm.php.

Thanks for all that you do to get more teens watching movies! 

 

 

 

YALSA’s Great Books Giveaway

Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 by Stephanie Race, Library Staff

Is your library in need of new young adult materials?  Could you use 1,200 new YA books, CDs, and videos?  You should consider applying for YALSA’s Great Books Giveaway.

Each year the YALSA office receives approximately 1,200 newly published books, videos, CDs, and audiocassettes that have been targeted primarily toward young adults.  Publishers and producers submit copies for selection committees to review and nominate.  After the ALA Midwinter Meeting, these materials need to be removed from the YALSA office to make room for the next year’s publications.

The YALSA Board of Directors believes many libraries that serve young adults would benefit by receiving this collection of materials.  YALSA and the cooperating publishers are therefore offering one year’s worth of review materials as a contribution to a library in need through this application process.

Complete guidelines and eligibility requirements are available online.

Deadline to apply is December 1, 2009.

For further information contact YALSA at (800) 545-2433, ext. 4387 or YALSA@ala.org.

This free teen program sounds great!

Posted Wednesday, June 3, 2009 by Library Chick, Library Staff

Attention public librarians!

YALSA and World Wrestling Entertainment® have joined forces for the SummerSlam Reading Jam, a pilot project with two great prizes: your library could win $1,000 for teen and tween materials for your library's collection and two of your tween and teen library patrons can win a free trip for two to WWE’s SummerSlam pay-per-view event in Los Angeles.

Here’s how it works:

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Sign up online! The first 500 libraries to register for the pilot project will receive mini-posters courtesy the WWE. The deadline to sign up for the SummerSlam Reading Jam is June 8 (although registration will close once 500 libraries have signed up for the pilot project).

New YALSA Interest Group

Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 by Anonymous, Library Staff

Are you interested in being a part of a new YALSA Interest Group that focuses on serving older teens? The mission statement of the proposed group is:

The purpose of this Interest Group is to discuss issues relating to serving young adults in their late teens and early twenties. We seek to develop and exchange ideas on how libraries can continue to best serve these “new adults” as they navigate life after the high school years. Identifying the needs of this age group, compiling & sharing collection and programming guidelines to address those needs, and considering ways to provide participatory opportunities for them is a focus of this Interest Group

The process for starting a new Interest Group with YALSA requires a petition, of at least 15 signatures, to be submitted to the Division. If you are willing to add your signature to the petition, please contact Penny Johnson at newadventures@centurytel.net. You must be a member of YALSA to be eligible to sign. In your email please include your ALA member number, address, phone, and email address.

SumerSlam Reading Jam

Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 by mharold, Library Staff
YALSA and WWE are attempting a new pilot program to encourage teen reading over the summer.  Every year they work together for Teen Read Week and teens can win a trip to Wrestlemania.  This year WWE is offering a free trip to SummerSlam for teens.  Check out the information here:
 
Libraries with winning contestants will also receive $1000 for teen & tween materials!
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