Young Adult Library Services

Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 2010

From the Editor


Sarah Flowers


From the President


Linda W. Braun

The View from ALA

Connect With What’s Important to You on ALA Connect


By Aaron Dobbs

YALSA Perspectives

Spectrum Scholar


Advocate, Mentor, Change Agent


By Cristina E. Mitra

School Library Perspective

Now Is the Time!


Teen Tech Week in a School Library


By Kim Herrington

Best Practices

Marketing the Homework Center Digitally


By Suellen S. Adams

Hennepin County Library’s Teen Tech Squad


Youth Leadership and Technology Free-for-all


By Cynthia Matthias and Christy Mulligan

AYear in Volunteering at the Library


By Erminia M. Gallo

Hot Spot: Teen TechWeek

Bending Circuits and Making Music


Teen Tech Week in Downtown Minneapolis


By Camden Tadhg

Free Online Tools for Serving Teens


Four Verbs to Live By and Great Technologies to Try


By Mary Fran Daley

Where Are All the Teens?


Engaging and Empowering Them Online


By Laura Peowski

Teens Talk Tech


By Mari Hardacre

Literature Surveys and Research

Peer Influences on Young Teen Readers


An Emerging Taxonomy


By Vivian Howard

Professional Resources

Guidelines for Authors

Index to Advertisers

The YALSA Update