Biographical Information for Patrick Jones

Personal Information

Family: Born August 6, 1961, in Flint, MI; son of Vaughn Paul (an auto worker) and Betty Lou (a homemaker) Jones. Education: University of Michigan—Flint, B.A., 1983, A.M.L.S., 1984.

E-mail: patrick@connectingya.com.

Awards: Catholic Library Association, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2006.  American Library Association / Scholastic Lifetime Achievement Award, 2006.

Writings by the Author

  • Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-to-Do-It Manual, Neal-Schuman (New York, NY), 1992.
  • What’s So Scary about R. L. Stine?, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 1998.
  • Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-to-Do-It Manual, Neal-Schuman (New York, NY), second edition, 1998.
    (With Joel Shoemaker) Do It Right!: Best Practices in Customer Service to Young Adults in Schools and Public Libraries, Neal-Schuman (New York, NY), 2001.
    (Editor, with Linda Waddle) New Directions for Library Services to Young Adults, American Library Association (Chicago, IL), 2002.
  • Running a Successful Library Card Campaign Program: A How-to-Do-It Manual, Neal-Schuman (New York, NY), 2002.
  • A Core Collection for Young Adults. Neal-Schuman (New York, NY), 2002.
  • Things Change.  Walker/Bloomsbury ( New York, NY) 2004.
  • Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-to-Do-It Manual, Neal-Schuman (New York, NY), 1992, second edition, 1998, third edition, 2004.
  • Reaching the Reluctant Teen Reader:  Tips, Talking Points, Titles, and Tools. Neal-Schuman (New York, NY), 2006.
    Nailed.  Walker/Bloomsbury ( New York, NY), 2006
  • Chasing Tail Lights, Walker/Bloomsbury, ( New York, NY) 2007.
  • Cheated. Walker/Bloomsbury, ( New York, NY) spring, 2008.
  • Stolen Car. Walker/Bloomsbury, ( New York, NY) fall, 2008.
  • Contributor to books, including Guys Write for Guys Read.  Viking (New York, NY). 2005l Children’s Books and Their Creators, Houghton-Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1995; Libraries and Problem Patrons, American Library Association (Chicago, IL), 1995; Twentieth-Century Young Adult Authors, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1996; Young Adults and Public Libraries, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1998; St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999; and Beacham’s Guide to Young-Adult Literature. Contributor to periodicals, including ALAN Review, American Libraries, Booklist, Emergency Librarian, Grassroots, Horn Book, Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, Kliatt, RQ, School Library Journal, Today’s Librarian, Voice of Youth Advocates, and Voices from the Middle.

Works in Progress: Cannibal Tears, a young-adult novel.