Youth Source

Booklist Online adds new youth content, navigation

A new Book Links landing page and related feature content have been added to Booklist Online following the recent transition of Book Links from being a standalone subscription magazine to a free quarterly supplement to Booklist.

Book Links has been helping connect children with books around curriculum themes for nearly 20 years and now increases its reach through both the print supplement and the enhanced online presence.

The Book Links content on Booklist Online is fully searchable, via both Quick Search and the Feature Advanced Search page, and offers links to related content throughout the site.

ALSC student sessions

Join the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) once again this year to interact, network and learn virtually though its online workshop series, ALSC Student Sessions. These one-hour programs, taking place in OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries), give students the opportunity to learn first-hand about hot library issues from ALSC members around the country.

Although the sessions were designed with students in mind, all who are interested are welcome to attend. For more information about ALSC Student Sessions or OPAL visit: www.tinyurl.com/alscstudents. All participants need to attend is a computer with speakers and willingness to learn.

October LGIAT

The October 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/2009/1009.html

2009-2010 iREAD Timeline

The 2011 Resource Guide submissions will be due January 18.  The Resource Guide is only as great as Illinois makes it! 

2010 Resource Guides should be shipping out this month free to all public libraries in Illinois!

Online shopping for 2010 orders should begin this month at our website:  http://www.ila.org/pub/iread.htm, and orders are due November 6.

Don't forget that Brainstorming for 2012 is next week at ILA in Peoria.  If you can't make it, don't worry!  You can still participate by visiting http://twitter.com/iREAD_illinois

Visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/iread_illinois to see the 2010 Showcase ideas.

YALSA to launch teen literature blog, seeks member manager

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), will launch a new blog focused on young adult literature in 2010. YALSA currently seeks a member manager for the blog. This blog will focus solely on young adult literature and will provide teens with a definitive Web connection to blog posts, images, booklists and videos and more all related to teen reading. The member manager will lead an advisory board that prepares content for the blog and solicits content from the YALSA community. Full details, including qualifications, duties and honoraria, are available online at http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2009/09/11/yalsa-seeks-member-manager-for-new-blog.

YALSA membership is required for this position. Applicants should provide a cover letter and a resume that includes management, writing and Web publishing experience. Applications are due Oct. 30, 2010 to [email protected]. Questions may be directed to Beth Yoke at [email protected].

Polls close this Friday for YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten

Teens can voice their choice one last time in the Teens’ Top Ten, a booklist chosen entirely by teens and sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). Through Sept. 18, teens can vote for their favorite books from the last year in the annual poll at www.ala.org/teenstopten.

The 25 nominees for this year’s Teens’ Top Ten are available at www.ala.org/teenstopten, along with bookmarks, flyers and other promotional tools for librarians to promote voting for the Teens’ Top Ten to the young adults visiting their libraries.

Teens’ Top Ten, an initiative of YALSA’s Young Adult (YA) Galley project, allows teens to voice their choice for their favorite books each year—it’s the only reading list with titles nominated and voted on by teens .Voting takes place through Sept. 18 at www.ala.org/teenstopten. Twenty-five titles from this year and last made the list, which can be viewed at www.ala.org/teenstopten. The final 2009 Teens’ Top Ten list will be announced in a webcast during Teen Read Week, Oct. 18-24, 2009.

YALSA seeks poster presentations for Annual 2010

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), invites proposals for a poster session on exceptional Teen Tech Week™ events, to be held at ALA Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., June 24-29, 2010.

Sponsored by YALSA’s Technology for Young Adults committee, this poster session will highlight successful and innovative library services and programs from Teen Tech Week that integrate technology in a way that is effective, affordable and replicable at other libraries. Poster presentations will highlight the main points or components of your best practice in a way that participants can easily learn about a topic.

“The Teen Tech Week technology poster sessions give librarians the chance to show off their innovative and interesting ideas,” said Linda Braun, YALSA president. “Colleagues who attend the session will walk away with a wealth of great new ideas for future Teen Tech Week programs.”

Proposals will be accepted online at www.ala.org/yalsa through Oct. 16. Questions should be directed to Nichole Gilbert at [email protected]. Applicants will be notified of their status in December.

New AASL toolkit helps parents advocate for school libraries

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has launched a new resource on its Web site, the Parent Outreach Toolkit. The toolkit was created to help school library media specialists educate and garner support from an important advocate in the school community, parents. It can be found at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/toolkits/toolkits.cfm.

ALA, ARL release guidance on digital delivery of content to classrooms

The American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of Research Libraries have released a document titled “Performance of or Showing Films in the Classroom” to provide guidance on digital delivery of content to the “physical” classroom.

According to the associations, the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act enacted in 2002 does not provide librarians clarity on copyright exceptions for the digital delivery of content for distance education. Thus, understanding what is permitted under the TEACH Act in combination with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and existing exceptions, such as fair use, is becoming increasingly confusing to many practitioners.

ALA Great Stories Club

The Great Stories CLUB is organized by the American Library Association Public Programs Office (PPO), in cooperation with the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Major funding for the Great Stories CLUB has been provided by Oprah’s Angel Network.

The Great Stories CLUB is a reading and discussion program that targets underserved, troubled teen populations. The program reaches teens through books that are relevant to their lives, inviting them to read and keep the books, and encourages them to consider and discuss each title with a group of their peers.