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Management Support for Young Adult Services supports Area IV of Young Adults Deserve the Best: Competencies for Librarians Serving Youth
ARTICLES
Browse through the following journals for more articles:
Library Media Connection
School Library Journal
Teacher Librarian
Voice of Youth Advocates
YAttitudes (YALSA's On-line Newsletter)
Young Adult Library Services: The Official Journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association
Adams, Helen R. Privacy & Confidentiality. American Libraries: November 2002, Volume 33, Issue 10, p44, 4p.
Discusses the privacy rights of minors. Includes interviews with school library media specialists and youth services librarians about what privacy issues affect young patrons. Discusses circulation records in relation to privacy and confidentiality.
Competencies for librarians serving young adults
Teacher Librarian : The Journal for School Library Professionals Volume 27 Issue 4 April 2000, pp.64-6
YALSA’s set of competencies for librarians serving young adults.
Conley, Linda. Increasing Teen Use of the Library and its Resources
PNLA Quarterly Volume 69 Issue 3 Spring 2005, pp.11-14
Practical advice on how to effectively meet a growing demand for young adult services in public libraries.
Competencies for librarians serving young adults Teacher Librarian : The Journal for School Library Professionals Volume 27 Issue 4 April 2000, pp.64-6
YALSA’s set of competencies for librarians serving young adults.
Conley, Linda Increasing Teen Use of the Library and its Resources
PNLA Quarterly Volume 69 Issue 3 Spring 2005, pp.11-14
Practical advice on how to effectively meet a growing demand for young adult services in public libraries.
Higgins, Susan E. Should Public Libraries Hire Young Adult Specialists? Summer 1994. Volume 7 Number 4. pp. 382-391.
Describes a survey of user satisfaction among 300 young adult patrons at two urban libraries. Nine conclusions about the effectiveness of young adult librarians and other services are drawn from the survey.
Miller, Ellen G. Team Building for Fund-Raising. Library Administration & Management. Volume 16 Number 4. Fall 2002. pp.187-193.
Explains the basics of fundraising and the benefits of teaming with others when approaching possible funders.
Minudri, Regina. How to Win Friends and Influence Administrators. School Library Journal. January 1976. Volume 22 Issue 5, p. 33.
Describes how young adult librarians can influence library administrators. Explains why it is important to give justification for proposed ideas and why young adult librarians should become familiar with how library budgets work. Suggests ways of approaching library administrators. Although the article was published in 1976, young adult librarians may benefit from the advice given about how to work with library administrators.
Moran, Robert F., Jr. ALA/APA Post-Master's Certification. Library Administration & Management. Volume 17 Number 1. Winter 2003. p.4-5.
Provides information about certification of librarians beyond the MLS level. Explains that the certification process does not just involve library directors, but librarians at all levels.
Rutherford,Dawn, What Does Professionalism Mean for Young Adult Librarians? Young Adult Library Services Volume 3 Number 1 Fall 2004. pp. 13-15
The author contends that professionalism reaches beyond understanding the field; it means a commitment to improvement and recognizing in any professional setting—in the library, at conferences—you represent the entire field.
Steffen, Nicolle O. and Keith Curry Lance. Who's Doing What: Outcome-Based Evaluation and Demographics in the Counting on Results Project. Public Libraries. Volume 41 Number 5. September/October 2002. pp. 271-279.
Describes how the outcomes of public library services vary by gender, age, and education based on the Counting on Results project by the IMLS-funded National Leadership Grant project.
Voice of Youth Advocates column, “YA Spaces of Your Dreams”
In every issue, this column describes teen-friendly spaces in libraries from around the country.
Winston,Mark D. and Deborah Fisher. Leadership Education for Youngm Adult Librarians: A Research Study Public Library Quarterly Volume 22 Number 3 2003. p. 23-35
The research presents the importance of the leadership role for YA librarians and discusses the extent to which instruction in leadership is provided by LIS programs. If YA librarians are expected to take leadership roles in their employing organizations, this training is critical.
Young, Rosemary. The Young Adult Librarian as an Administrator. Drexel Library Quarterly. January 1978. Volume 14 Number 1. pp. 19-28.
Suggests that young adult librarians should bring a useful angle to management positions. Gives information about the skills, training, and experiences of young adult librarians as administrators. The information is still relevant in the current environment even though the article was published in 1978.
WEBSITES
Association of Rural & Small Libraries
Official web site of the association dedicated to serving libraries with a limited budget and a diverse clientele in public libraries, school libraries, small urban branches, special and corporate libraries, and small academic libraries.
Child Trends
Dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information improve the decisions, programs, and polices that affect children
Center for Media and Public Affairs
Nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.
Family and Youth Services Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Information about possible grant opportunities.
National Center for Education Statistics
Provides statistics about educational issues.
National Library Legislative Day
Consider visiting Washington D.C. in May to speak to legislators about the importance of library funding. National Library Legislative Day is held each year in the spring. The ALA office provides a day of training and preparation before the appointments with legislators, and participants are given information about national funding issues.
Search Institute
Devoted to the raising of responsible children and teenagers using 40 developmental assets as a model.
State Library Web Sites or State Library Websites
Visit the web site for your state library agency. Some agencies provide information about professional development opportunities within the state or the region. Many sites have links to professional organizations within the state.
Urban Libraries Council
Official web site of the Urban Libraries Council (ULC), an association of large public libraries and corporations that serve them.
YALSA Serving the Underserved (SUS) Trainers
Provides a list of contact information for YALSA members throughout the United States who have been trained to train other librarians, both generalists and specialists, about serving young adults.
Young Adult Librarian’s Help
Tracey Firestone’s site is “designed to gather resources on and off the Web to help librarians serving teens.Includes the Virtual YA Index, a directory of public libraries with pages serving YAs.
BOOKS
Altman, Ellen, and Sandra Nelson and Diane Mayo. Managing For Results. American Library Association, 1999.
American Association of School Librarians. Information power. American Library Association, 1998.
Anderson, Sheila B. Extreme Teens: Library Services to Nontraditional Young Adults. Libraries Unlimited, 2005.
Anderson, Sheila B. Serving Older Teens (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series). Libraries Unlimited, 2003.
Bard, Therese Bissen. Student assistants in the school library media center. Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
Big Book of Library Grant Money. American Library Association, 2002.
Bradburn, Frances Bryant. Output measures for school library media programs. Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1999.
Braun, Linda W. Hooking Teens with the ‘Net.’ Neal-Schuman, 2003.
Chelton, Mary K. and Colleen Cool. Youth Information Seeking Behavior: Theories, Models, andd Issues. Scarecrow, 2004.
Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How to Do It Manual. 3rd ed. Neal-Schuman, 2004.
Dickerson, Constance. Teen Book Discussion Groups the Library (Teens the Library Series). Neal-Schuman, 2004.
Edwards, Margaret Alexander. The Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts. (Centennial Edition). American Library Association, 2002.
Farmer, Lesley S.J. Digital Inclusion, Teens, and Your Library : Exploring the Issues and Acting on Them (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series). Libraries Unlimited, 2005.Gieseck, Joan. Practical Strategies for Library Managers. American Library Association, 2001.
Gertzog, Alice and Edwin Beckerman. Administration of the Public Library. Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Harris, Frances Jacobson. I Found It on the Internet: Coming of Age Online. American Library Association, 2005.
Honnold, RoseMary. More Teen Programs That Work (Teens @ the Library Series). Neal-Schuman, 2005.
Hughes-Hassell, Sandra and Jacqueline Mancall. Collection Management for Youth: Responding to the Needs of Learners. American Library Association, 2005.
Jones, Patrick, Michele Gorman and Tricia Suellentrop. Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Third Edition. Libraries Unlimited, 2004. Jones, Patrick. New Directions for Library Services to Young Adults. American Library Association, 2002.
Karp, Rashelle S. Powerful Public Relations. American Library Association, 2002.
Mayo, Diane and Jeanne Goodrich. Staffing for Results. American Library Association, 2002.
Metz, Ruth. Coaching in the Library. American Library Association, 2001.
Nelson, Sandra. NEW Planning for Results. American Library Association, 2001.
Pearson, Richard C. The school library media specialist's tool kit. Highsmith Press, 1999.
Reichman, Henry. Censorship and selection. 3rd ed. American Library Association, 2001.
Taney, Kimberly Bolan. Teen Spaces: the step-by-step library makeover. American Library Association, 2003.
Tuccillo, Diane P. Library Teen Advisory Groups (Voya Guides). Scarecrow, 2004.
Vaillancourt, Renee. Bare Bones Young Adult Services: Tips for Public Library Generalists. American Library Association, 1999.
Vaillancourt, Renee. Managing Young Adult Library Services: a self-help manual. Neal-Schuman, 2002.
Valenza, Joyce Kasman. Power Research Tools: Learning Activities and Posters. American Library Association, 2003.
Valenza, Joyce Kasman. Power Tools Recharged. American Library Association, 2004.
Young Adults Deserve the Best: Competencies (formerly YASD)/ALA, Updated, 2003.
Walters, Virginia A. Output Measures and More: planning and evaluating library services for young adults. American Library Association, 1995.
Wasman, Ann. New steps to service. American Library Association, 1998.
Woolls, Blanche and David Loertscher. Whole School Library Handbook. American Library Association, 2004.
Yesner, Bernice L. Operating and evaluating school library media programs. Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1998.
MAILING LISTS
LM_NET
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BLOGS
Pop Goes the Library http://www.nexgenlibrarian.net/popculture/
An ongoing exploration of the intersection of popular culture and libraries, maintained by public librarians Sophie Brookover, Liz Burns, and Melissa Rabey
teenlibrarian Blog http://www.teenlibrarian.com/blog.html
Miranda Doyle’s news and information for librarians who work with teens
Young Adult Blogs Online http://www.yabo.info/
Aggregates blogs of interest to YA librarians.
YALSA Blog, http://blogs.ala.org/yalsa.php
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