Youth Source

YALSA - Summer Online Courses

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), opened registration for two online courses for Summer 2009: “Pain in the Brain:  Adolescent Development and Library Behavior” (Beth Gallaway) and “Beyond Booklists:  Serving Today's Diverse Teens” (Jennifer Velasquez).

YALSA’s Summer 2009 courses meet for four weeks beginning June 1. Visit the YALSA website for course descriptions and for online registration.

Registration opens for YALSA’s Teen Read Week

2009 theme is Read Beyond Reality @ your library®

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), launched its Teen Read Week 2009 Web site on April 16 (Support Teen Literature Day), opening registration and offering resources for the annual celebration of teen reading, including activity ideas and more. More information, including registration benefits, can be found at www.ala.org/teenread.Teen Read Week is Oct. 18-24, with a theme of Read Beyond Reality @ your library, encouraging teens to read something out of this world, just for the fun of it.

April LGIAT

The April issue of Let's Get It All Together (LGIAT), the monthly Youth Services newsletter produced by Rolling Prairie Library System, is now available at http://www.rpls.ws/lgiat/2009/0409.html