Connecting Young Adults and Libraries

3^rd revised and expanded edition

Patrick Jones, Michele Gorman, and Tricia Suellentrop

Clickable Table of Contents

1. WHY: the philosophy behind services to young adults

• 150 Ways to Show Kids You Care
• Excellence in Library Services to Young Adults
• Explore the 40 development assets.
• Find partners in the community
• Healthy youth development
• New Directions
• YALSA Vision Statement
• YALSA’s Serving the UnderServed project
• Young Adults Deserve the Best

2. WHO: understanding the audience

• Adolescence: The Last Step Before Becoming An Adult
• Adolescent Development resource guide
• Healthy Relationships for Teens resource guide
• National Youth Development Information Center
• Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development
• Teenage Research Unlimited

3. WHEN / WHERE: past, present and future of YA services

• YALSA History

4. CUSTOMER SERVICE

• Do It Right! Best Practices for Serving Young Adults in School and Public Libraries
• Information Literacy resource guide
• Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning
• Information Power
• Narrative Summary Report of the Teen Focus Groups for the Young Adult Services Program (California)
• Novelist

5. COLLECTIONS:

• A Core Collection for Young Adults
• Assembly on Literature for Adolescents
• Booklists & Book Awards (YALSA)
• Getting Graphic! Using Graphic Novels to Promote Literacy with Preteens and Teens
• Graphic Novels in Libraries
• Knowledge of Materials resource guide
• Michael L. Printz Award
• Multicultural Resources resource guide
• No Flying, No Tights: A Website Reviewing Graphic Novels for Teens
• Reading Rants: Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists
• Teen Movies
• Teen Reads.com
• Voice of Youth Advocates
• YALSA / Smart Girl reading surveys
• Young Adult Genreflecting

6. BOOKTALKING:

• Booktalking resource guide

· Nancy Keane's Booktalks

· Nonfiction booktalking

7. OUTREACH AND PARNTERSHIPS

• Joint Ventures: The Promise, Power and Performance of Partnering
• Running a Successful Library Card Campaign
• School and Public Library Cooperation resource guide

8. PROGRAMMING:

• 101+ Teen Programs that Work
• Afterschool.gov
• Programming for Young Adults resource guide
• See YA Around
• Teen Library Events
• Teen Read Week

9. SPACES AND PROMOTION

• Phoenix Public Library' Teen Central
• Teen Spaces
• TeenLibrarian.Com

10. TECHNOLOGY:

• A Core Collection for Young Adults of Web sites; databases, and other electronic formats

• Build a teen Web page resource guide

• Chat 101
• Digital Divide Network
• Teen Chat
• Teen Ink
• Teen Links @ Hennepin County Library
• Teen Open Diary
• Teen Safety on the Information Highway
• Wired for Youth @ Austin Public Library
• YA Author's Cafe

11. YOUTH INVOLVEMENT

• Libraries and Teen Advisory Groups
• National Youth Participation Guidelines
• Teen Advisory Group Site
• Teens' Top Ten:

12. ISSUES IN YOUNG ADULT SERVICES

• American Library Association Code of Ethics
• CIPA
• Civil Liberties, Intellectual Freedom, and Privacy
• Copyright
• Freedom to Read Statement
• Intellectual Freedom resource guide
• Leadership and Professionalism resource guide
• Library Bill of Rights,
• Management Support for Young Adult Services resource guide
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• YA Services Bibliography from Mary K. Chelton

RETURN TO:

• Connecting Young and Libraries home page