Table of Contents
Winter 2007
FROM THE EDITOR
Valerie Ott
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Judy Nelson
YALSA Perspectives
Excellence Recognized: Award Winners Speak
Kerry Sutherland
Announcing Teen Tech Week TM
Don't Miss It!
Linda W. Braun
Teen Perspectives
I Can't Live without My . . . : Teens' Top Ten High-Tech Gadgets and Web Sites
Ann Pechacek
Author Perspectives
The Naked Truth: An Interview with Alyssa Brugman
Dominique McCafferty
Best Practices
Cosplay, Gaming, and Conventions: The Amazing and Unexpected Places an Anime Club Can Lead Unsuspecting Librarians
Paula Brehm-Heeger, Ann Conway, and Carrie Vale
Hot Spot: Teens and Technology
Homework Help Is a Click Away
Sarah Cofer, Janet Ingraham Dwyer, Suzanne Harold, Ann Pechacek, Karen Kolb Peterson, and Sara Ryan
Reading with Your Ears Preconference Workshop at ALA's 2006 Annual Conference
C D McLean
Cyberbullying From Playground to Computer
Tara Anderson and Brian Sturm
Social Networking Sites:Why Teens Need Places Like MySpace
Sean Rapacki
All Thumbs Isn't a Bad Thing: Video Game Programs @ your library ®
Beth Saxton
Out of the Basement: The Social Side of Gaming
Eli Neiburger and Matt Gullett
Web, Library, and Teen Services 2.0
Kimberly Bolan, Meg Canada, and Rob Cullin
Literature Surveys and Research
Youth and the Internet
June Abbas, Kay Bishop, and George D’Elia
Guidelines for Authors
The YALSA Update