Youth Source

Skokie TeenNet Videos Promote Library

Skokie Public Library's TeenNet teen volunteers have produced 2 videos, one promoting the library's Teen Corner and one an interview with a local restaurant.  The videos earned first and second place respectively in the Skokie Village Cable Commission's Video Contest.  Great PR for the library, and a great way to involve teens in the library.  The teen video productions are mentored by librarian Frances Roehm.  Check them out on YouTube.  First Place: "The Teen Corner at the Skokie Library" 
Second Place "Sweety Pies: An Interview"

YALSA announces 2010 symposium theme, opens proposals

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), chose “Beyond Good Intentions: Diversity, Literature, and Teens” as the theme for its 2010 Young Adult Literature Symposium, sponsored in part by the William C. Morris Endowment. In addition, the division opened its call for preconference proposals, program proposals and paper presentations for the symposium. The symposium takes place in Albuquerque, N.M., Nov. 5-7, 2010.

Phase Two of ALSC’s Kids! Campaign targets tweens

Phase two of the Association for Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) Kids! @ your library® public awareness campaign, which officially launches in July, focuses on tools to help librarians promote library services to kids in grades five through eight.

Registration opens for ALSC online education courses

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is offering three online education courses this summer to meet your professional development needs.  The asynchronous, multi-week courses, delivered through Moodle, begin on July 20. Registration is open now through Monday, July 6. The three summer courses offered are:

AASL offers graduate credit for national conference

Attendees of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) 14th National Conference & Exhibition have the opportunity to receive up to two hours of graduate credit. This opportunity is being offered in conjunction with the University of Colorado Denver.  AASL's national conference will be held in Charlotte, N.C., November 5-8.

Teens select 2010 theme, librarians win great prizes

Thousands of school and public libraries throughout the country joined the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), in celebrating Teen Techh Week 2009, March 8-14, encouraging teens to take advantage of the many technologies available to them at their libraries.. More than 1,700 libraries embraced the 2009 theme, Press Play @ your library®, by hosting an array of events and programs that encouraged teens to get connected with gaming, video, and music at the library.

YALSA opens applications for 2010 Young Adult Literature Symposium stipends

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association, is now accepting applications for stipends to attend the 2010 Young Adult Literature Symposium, to be held Nov 5-7, 2010, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The symposium is sponsored in part by the William C. Morris Endowment.

Help Needed for ILA Program

Dianne Happ is planning an ILA Program entitled, "Recipes for Poetical Pie: Upper Crust Perfection." She is looking for poetical children’s books (old and new) and other poetry (singular or collected works). Please submit all poetry recommendations to: DianneHapp@ppl.peoria.lib.il.us

Here’s the program description: Delicious! Wax poetically by rediscovering, reintroducing, and relishing poetry with kids! The “Recipes” group returns to spice up the least palatable genre: poetry. Kids love poetry; but, along the way their poetical tastes sour either from unappetizing, overdone assignments, or by adults lacking the ingredients to turn tart turnovers into refreshing creations that even Mother Goose, Betty Crocker, or Shakespeare might devour! Delectable poetry….. it’s as easy as pie, but never flaky!

Great interactive software for kids

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected its Spring 2009 list of Great Interactive Software for Kids (GISK), which recognizes high-quality computer programs and digital media for children 14 years of age and younger.