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If you’ve never made a presentation at an event like the YA Literature Symposium, watching the speakers might make you wonder how it all comes together. Those polished, funny, engaging speakers must have done some hard work, but they must also be lucky, right? Yet the process of crafting the presentation and actually making it isn’t a mysterious one, as this tongue-in-cheek timeline for a speaker at the YA Lit Symposium illustrates.
Nine Months Before Symposium: Find out the program proposal you wrote has been accepted. Do a happy dance. Spend the next six months “contemplating your topic,” which looks like doing nothing.
Three Months Before Symposium: Realize you have to give a presentation in three months. Cry.
Two Months Before Symposium: Work on your presentation. Consult with the authors that the YALSA Office has indicated would be a good fit for your presentation.
One Month Before Symposium: Find out an author has dropped out. Cry.
Two Weeks Before Symposium: Put the final touches on your presentation. Hope that you’re presentating on Saturday, since the most people are here on Saturday.
One Week Before Symposium: Find out you’re presenting on Sunday. Cry.
Two Days Before Symposium: Pack, trying to remember all your supplies for your presentation. Especially your laptop.
One Day Before Symposium: Arrive at Symposium’s location. Reconnect with old friends and colleagues. Hear about how great the preconferences were. Worry about your presentation.
Symposium Saturday: Attend presentations. Hear funny, intriguing speakers. Worry that your presentation isn’t funny.
Symposium Saturday Evening: Do a final run-through on your presentation. Worry that your ideas are all wrong.
Symposium Sunday Morning: Wake up at 8am, a half-hour before you are to present and you haven’t even showered. Cry.
Symposium Sunday Morning, Later: Get to the room you’ve been assigned to present in. Look at the people gathered in the room and take a deep breath. Begin your presentation.
Symposium Sunday Afternoon: You survived! In honor of the occasion, and as relief from all the nerves, cry.
Seriously, presenting isn’t so scary. It’s a chance for you to share your knowledge with your fellow librarians. Who wouldn’t like the chance to be an expert on a topic? And there’s few ways that are better to make you an expert than to prepare a presentation for your eagle-eyed, high-standards-having fellow librarians. If you’ve attended a lot of presentations, you’ve probably got your own ideas on how to present information and what you would like to hear. Why not put that into practice? YALSA gives you plenty of chances to present, whether at Annual, the YA Lit Symposium (in 2012 in St. Louis, mark your calendars!) or more. So the next time a call for program proposals go out, why not throw your hat in the ring?
The thing I was looking forward to least about the whole YALSA Teen Lit Symposium was the Author Happy Hour. Neurotic me imagined me sitting by myself at a table while all the other tables were mobbed.
When the librarians started streaming in, I took a picture because it was just this mob of people coming in, like the Running of the Brides at Filene’s Basement in Boston. And then you mobbed us all! It was thrilling.
The general consensus was that this was one of the most fun and successful signings we’d each attended. Allen Zadoff joked that he’d discovered a new business model for moving his books: “Give them away!”
I wanted to let you know how impressed the authors were by you. Several commented on how nice and smart and warm all of the librarians were. You made us feel like a million bucks with your reactions to our books or our presentations. We all loved chatting with you, hearing about your libraries and your patrons. Most of all, we wished we’d had more time.
So, on behalf of all the authors, thank you, and we hope you had as much fun as we did. Oh, and brava to whoever asked Malinda Lo to sign her chest!
Presented by Teri Lesesne, Rosemary Chance, and Janie Flores, and featuring amazing, award-winning authors Benjamin Alire Sáenz and Margarita Engle, this session explored the importance of books and authors that feature Latinos/Hispanics/Chicanos (there was a small discussion of labeling and its drawbacks) and their ability to allow Latino teens to see themselves in the literature made available to them.
Benjamin Sáenz spoke about the fact that he was firstly a poet and a writer for adults until he was asked by a publisher to consider writing for children and then young adults. And aren’t we glad he said yes. Mr. Sáenz read passages from his books Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood and Last Night I Sang to the Monster that related to the fact that adults so often fail to really see teens, and that teens in turn look to each other to be seen and understood. And on the subject of becoming an author, he shared his philosophy that “we become writers by discipline and desire” and that talent is not just a gift that some writers have, but something that they have to work for. His next book, coming out in 2012, is called Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and will feature a gay, Latino romance set in the 1960s.
Margarita Engle spoke about her Cuban-American heritage and how that informs her passion as a botanist and as an author. She spoke about the sense of loss she felt at travel restrictions that were in place between the US and Cuba for 30+ years that prevented her from seeing her maternal extended family there. She also shared her reasons for writing novels in verse. Aside from being great reads for reluctant readers, or any teen who is looking for a quick read, poetry and metaphor is the language of Cuba. Engle shared that for a country that has lived under censorship in many iterations, and whose people have learned to express truth in indirect ways, poetry is a natural form of communication. Her next book, coming out March 2011, is Hurricane Dancers. It is historical fiction centered around Cuba again, and features the first Caribbean pirate.
The beauty in listening to both authors was hearing how their own identities play so strongly into the Latino characters that they create and the settings they choose, yet knowing the universal nature of the experiences their characters have. While Latinos will certainly, and wonderfully, see their lives reflected in these books, non-Latinos will as well.
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The morning began with Michael Cart giving an overview of some of the important social and political events related to LGBTQ issues. Next, Cart and Christine Jenkins presenting a list of all of the books with LGBTQ content from 1969 to 2010. They booktalked many of these, highlighting some trends (resolution by automobile crash, melodrama, impossibly good looking gay men and the women who love them), the breakthrough books, and the real dingers. It was like being back in library school, taking a class on LGBTQ YA Lit, but it was compressed. If you want to spend more time with these books and these issues, check out Cart and Jenkins’ book from Scarecrow Press, The Heart Has It’s Reasons.
If you get your hands on their bibliography and were not in attendance, please note that this is not a list of recommended books. Some are good and some are not so good. During introductions, we each chose books from the list to highlight. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan and Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and Levithan got the most nods, along with the graphic novel Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki. Please add your own recommendations in the comments.
After lunch of sandwiches and delicious chocolate cupcakes, there was an author panel consisting of: Lauren Bjorkman, Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Malinda Lo, and Megan Frazer (hey, that’s me!). We talked about what brought us to write our books, the challenges we faced, and what we hope to see in the future. We compiled a list of links that are on Malinda’s site.
After the author panel, I had to dash to the Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance in Contemporary YA Fiction pre-conference (which I hope someone else blogs about, because when I came in they were sharing some awesome ideas and resources), so I cannot give a first-person account of the breakouts that occurred — if anyone else would like to chime in, please do.
If you are in Albuquerque but missed the pre-conference, you can still hear about LGBTQ issues today at 1:30 at the breakout session: The New Gay Teen: Moving Beyond the Issue Novel.
Meet Them Where They Are and Open the Door: Urban Teens, Street Lit, and Reader’s Advisory brought together the expertise of Megan Honig of New York Public Library, Beth Saxton of Cleveland Public Library, and Sofia Quintero, author of the YA novel Efraim’s Secret (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2010).
Presenters Honig and Saxton demanded participants think critically about the definitions of “urban” and “street lit,” as well as admit, on paper, their biases, preconceived notions, and reservations about recommending street lit to young adults. The discussion and reflection segments of this pre-conference proved particularly valuable.
Honig demonstrated, through the words of actual teens, why street lit is valuable and relevant to their lives. While some librarians might have ideas about why teens are drawn to street lit, their interest in it may be as simple as the stories are accessible because of the language that is used, or that the novels are plot-driven and cinematic in nature. Some teens like the drama. Others feel that street lit tells stories that are real. Street lit as risk-free thrill (a reader can watch a character involve his or herself in risky behavior, instead of the reader engaging in those activities) brought a new way for librarians to assess the value of street lit. Honig’s comparison of Street Lit vs. YA Substitute (say, Teri Woods vs. Walter Dean Myers) illustrated how these types of books complement each other, sometimes, but recommending a YA Substitute to an avid reader of street lit is not always going to be successful.
Saxton offered practical reader’s advisory and RA-based programming ideas for librarians to take back to their schools and libraries. She then demonstrated a booktalk method in which she booktalked 30 books in 30 minutes (under 22 minutes, actually; quite impressive). She shared nontraditional book club activities that might help capture and retain new participants. One of the most engaging suggestions she had for connecting young adults with new books is a customized reading list – perfect for summer vacation or school breaks – where, through a questionnaire in which the teen describes his or her favorite books, least favorite books, etc., Saxton offers a ten book custom reading list. This engagement with teens is what makes lifelong library users.
Finally, author Sofia Quintero spoke about how her adult titles and new YA novel do and don’t fit into the category of street lit. She shared with the audience her work with young people and the ways in which librarians can dignify and encourage teen reading through reader’s advisory. She described reading aloud to people of all ages as, “a profound act of love,” and encouraged librarians to read aloud to their teenage populations. She also offered practical activities such as “Judge a Book by its Cover” during which teens gauge their interest in a book first by its cover, then by its flap copy, and finally by spending a few minutes reading the first page or two. Another activity she’s found success with is a book-to-film exercise in which a group will examine the film interpretation of a book and compare scenes from that film to the scenes in the source text. This, she said, demonstrates the richness and vibrancy of t
The YA Literature Symposium is quickly approaching! Have you registered yet? The list of programs with times is now available.
The featured program this week/today is:
Meet Them Where They Are and Open the Door: Urban Teens, Street Lit, and Reader’s Advisory
Socioeconomically disadvantaged urban teens are often stereotyped as non-readers, reluctant readers, or readers of a single genre. But just as with other teens, urban teens’ reading choices are informed by their needs, interests, and social landscape. In this session, we will discuss factors that contribute to urban teens’ reading choices, demystify the increasingly popular genre of street lit, and demonstrate proven reader’s advisory techniques and programs for connecting urban teens with a variety of books that speak to them. Presenters: Megan Honig and Beth Saxton
Presenters Megan Honig and Beth Saxton kindly answered my questions.
KH: Can you share one interesting or thought provoking fact from your presentation?
Beth: There is not a large chain bookstore within the Cleveland city limits, or a bookstore selling a variety of new books for teens. It would take a teen who lives near downtown at least an hour on the bus to get to the nearest Borders or Barnes & Noble on a good day. There is a Borders Express at the mall downtown, the same mall that does not allow anyone under 18 without a parent.
KH: Who should come to your presentation?
Megan: Anyone who wants to learn more about why teens are drawn to street lit and how to do reader’s advisory for street lit fans (HINT: respect their reading tastes!!).
Beth: I think we could have called this “Respect the reader”. I would say anyone who is interested in how to raise reader’s awareness of titles and who wants to get more books into the hands of their teens.
The full interview with Megan and Beth is available at the YA Lit Symposium Online Community.
The YA Literature Symposium is November 5-7 in Albuquerque, NM. To give everyone a sneak peek into the presentations I be posting portions of interviews with program presenters weekly until the symposium. Full interviews will be available at the YA Lit Symposium Online Community.
The YA Literature Symposium is quickly approaching! Have you registered yet? The list of programs with times is now available.
The featured program this week/today is:
Beyond Good Intentions and Chicken Soup: Young Adult Literature and Disability Diversity: How Far Have We Come?
Today’s teens are likely to have friends and classmates with disabilities. Young adult literature increasingly reflects the diverse identities found among today’s teens, and scaffolds the social beliefs they hold about people with disabilities, by including positive portrayals of characters with disabilities. Session participants will critically examine how changing social beliefs about disability are reflected in historical through contemporary fiction and nonfiction YA lit and explore methods to promote acceptance of diversity through the genre. Participants will be able to apply this knowledge when selecting and teaching YA lit. Speakers are Dr. Heather Garrison, Dr. Katherine Schneider, and author Terry Trueman.
The interview with Drs. Heather Garrison and Katherine Schneider is available at the YA Lit Symposium Online Community.
The YA Literature Symposium is November 5-7 in Albuquerque, NM. To give everyone a sneak peek into the presentations I be posting portions of interviews with program presenters weekly until the symposium. Full interviews will be available at the YA Lit Symposium Online Community.
This week’s featured program for the Young Adult Literature Symposium is On Beyond Stonewall: The Uphill Journey of Young Adult Fiction with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2010.
Presenter Michael Cart kindly answered my questions on behalf of himself and co-presenter Christine Jenkins.
KH: Can you share one interesting or thought provoking fact from your presentation?
MC: The growth of the literature under discussion. From 1999-2000 a total of eighteen books were published. From 2008-2009 the total grew to 63!
KH: Who will be presenting with you?
MC: The program will include a panel of authors who write gay-themed work. The writers will be Malinda Lo, Lauren Bjorkman, and Kirstin Cronn-Mill.
**The complete interview can be found at the YA Lit Symposium Online Community.
The YA Literature Symposium is November 5-7 in Albuquerque, NM. To give everyone a sneak peek into the presentations I be posting portions of interviews with program presenters weekly until the symposium. Full interviews will be available at the YA Lit Symposium Online Community.
This week’s featured program from the Young Adult Literature Symposium is Celebramos Libros: Celebrating Latino Literature!
This week’s featured presenter is Teri S. Lesesne, Professor of Library Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX.
KH: Who should come to your presentation?
TL: Anyone interested in learning more about adding diversity to their collections for tweens and teens, who wants to have the chance to hear authors (Ben Saenz and Margarita Engle), who wants to learn about why books about another culture are essential to the collection.
KH: How will people be able to use the information you share in their own practice?
TL: They will be able to identify the books that need to be a part of the collection so that patrons have both mirrors (books in which they can see themselves) and windows (books that open the world to them and show them other people and places).
**The complete interview can be found at the YA Lit Symposium Online Community.
The YA Literature Symposium is November 5-7 in Albuquerque, NM. To give everyone a sneak peek into the presentations I be posting portions of interviews with program presenters weekly until the symposium. Full interviews will be available at the YA Lit Symposium Online Community.
Have you registered for the Young Adult Literature Symposium yet? The 2nd YALSA YA Lit Symposium is going to be November 5-7 in Albuquerque, NM. Early Bird Registration for the Symposium is only available until September 10th – register soon to get the great early bird rates!
To give the YALSA Blog readers an idea of what to expect at the Symposium, I will be posting interviews with the symposium presenters from August until the Symposium. What a better way to decide which programs to attend?
Why wait until the symposium to get the discussions started? Join us in the discussion of diversity issues and YA literature that addresses them today at the YA Lit Symposium Online Community (http://yalsayalitsymp10.ning.com/). Booklists, discussions, and questions and answers about the symposium can all be found here!
Look for the first YA Lit Symposium presenter interview next week!
For additional information about the symposium, visit the symposium website (http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/yalitsymposium/symposium.cfm) or the symposium wiki (http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Young_Adult_Literature_Symposium%2C_2010).
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Save $10 on next Thursday’s webinar If you register for YALSA’s Risky Business webinar by July 14, , taking place next Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern, you’ll save $10 over normal registration rates. That means the webinar is just $29 for individual YALSA members and $39 for all other individuals. Register today at www.ala.org/yalsa/webinars.
WrestleMania: We’ve made the Challenge shorter and simple. The WrestleMania Reading Challenge has changed this year to take place during just one week, making it simpler for you and your teens and tweens to particpate. Registering automatically enters you into a drawing for one of five sets of books from Penguin — and it gives teens and tweens at your library the chance to win tickets to WrestleMania and $2,000 for your library. It’s a surefire way to get new YA readers into your library. Don’t believe us? Then find out what happened at Bambi Mansfield’s library. Register today at www.ala.org/wrestlemania.
Win cold, hard cash from YALSA. Do you have an idea to make YALSA’s awards and booklists into household names, ensure young adult and school librarians have access to important research, help YALSA better advocate for quality library services for every teen in every library, develop continuing education or career services that librarians need or engage YALSA’s current membership and recruit new members? Of course you do. Well, YALSA will pay you $250 for that great idea (and YALSA committees are eligible to submit an idea, too). But you have to submit your idea to the Great Ideas contest by July 15.
New Books from YALSA Now available in the ALA Online Store: Risky Business: Taking and Managing Risks in Library Services to Teens by Linda Braun, Hillias J. Martin, and Connie Urquhart and Multicultural Programs for Tweens and Teens, edited by Linda B. Alexander and Nahyun Kwon. Order your copy today!
After the jump, find out how you can win FREE BOOKS simply by registering for Teen Read Week, be a 2011 YALSA Emerging Leader, and more!
Want to win free books? Sign up for Teen Read Week If you haven’t already, register for Teen Read Week In addition to showing YALSA that you support this program — which encourage teens to read for fun — there are major benefits to doing so.
When you register for Teen Read Week, you’re automatically enrolled in a contest to win a collection of titles from Cinco Puntos, 25 manga titles from Viz Media, and a full set of the Fall 2010 launch list from Carolrhoda Lab. Register today!
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Early Bird Registration for the Young Adult Literature Symposium opened this week. Early Bird Pricing* is available for those that register before September 10!
The symposium will focus on literature for young adults and is being held November 5 -7 in Albuquerque, NM.
Two YA Lit Symposium Stipend recipients were selected to receive up to $1,000 each to support attendance at the symposium. The winners are: Jessica Levy, student at University of California-Los Angeles’ Department of Information Studies, and Emily Dezurick-Badran, enquiry assistant at the Southend Central Library in Southend on Sea, Essex, United Kingdom. Congratulations!
If you would like to know more about the symposium, Albuquerque, or want to join in the conversation, visit the symposium website, wiki, or Ning.
*Early Bird Rates:
$195 YALSA and NMLA Members
$245 ALA Personal Member
$300 Nonmember
$50 Student
Registration for the YA Literature Symposium begins soon!
While I was looking over the list of fantastic preconferences for the YA Literature Symposium – I saw that we can sign up for Hot Air Balloon Rides on Friday morning ($135). This is super – as Albuquerque is the Ballooning Capital of the World.
There is also an excursion to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center ($40) on Saturday night. Here visitors will learn about the history of the Pueblo people, tour the museum and snack on light refreshments.
Don’t forget to check out the YA Literature Symposium Webpage and Wiki for more information about the Symposium.
YALSA’s First Webinar: Join YALSA on March 31 at 2 p.m. Eastern for a FREE webinar! Linda Braun, YALSA president, will lead the hour-long session on the topic of Getting Involved with YALSA. Topics include the various ways to participate in YALSA, and how doing so can help your daily work and career development. Registration is limited, so please contact Eve Gaus at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5293 or [email protected] to reserve your space.
Process Volunteer Forms Due Today YALSA will begin appointing process committee, jury, task force, and advisory board members this spring! Be sure to fill out your Committee Volunteer Form by March 12 so that Kim Patton, YALSA’s president-elect, will know you’re interested. (Read Kim Patton’s post on the process to find out more about serving on YALSA’s committees).
After the jump, learn more about YALSA’s preconferences (including which authors will appear!), how to access YALSA’s newly revised competencies, details on YALSA’s upcoming mentoring program, how to enter the 2010 Great Ideas contest, and information on the 2010 Young Adult Literature Symposium.
Join YALSA for Annual Preconferences: YALSA will offer two preconferences before the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. (Advanced registration ends in May) If you have already registered and would like to add a preconference or special event, you have two options: (1) By phone: Call ALA Registration at 1-800-974-3084 and ask to add a workshop to your existing registration.; (2) Online: Add an event to your existing registration by clicking on this link. Use your log in and password to access your existing Annual registration and add events in the “Your Events” section (screen 6). Then simply check out and pay for the events you’ve added.
YALSA has plenty planned, in addition to preconferences. See everything we have planned at the YALSA Annual Conference Wiki.
It’s Perfectly Normal: Dealing with “Sensitive” Topics in Teen Services is a full-day workshop on Friday, June 24 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Have you ever found yourself worrying about how best to address critical but sensitive adolescent topics through your teen services and collection? Topics like sexuality, abuse, privacy and others can be difficult for librarians to address with teens &/or their parents and caregivers. Hear from experts in the field of adolescent development, along with authors and librarians, about how they have managed to successfully maneuver this difficult landscape. Explore strategies for collection development, services and programming relating to these sensitive issues. Tickets cost $195 for YA
In January, YALSA and ALA announced the winners of the 2010 Youth Media Awards. As you begin highlighting the award winners at your library, be sure to take advantage of promotional tools from YALSA:
- Downloadable bookmarks. These bookmarks (PDF) include all of YALSA’s literary award winners, including the Alex, Edwards, Morris, Nonfiction, Odyssey, and Printz awards. Each bookmark lists the winner and honor books. They also allow you to add the location of the titles in your library and to customize the back of the bookmarks with your library’s logo and contact information.
- Customizable press releases. You can also spread the word on your library’s website or blog, your school or public library newsletter, or even in your local newspaper. Just download a customizable Word template for each of our awards — the Alex, Edwards, Morris, Nonfiction, Odyssey, and Printz.
How do you promote award-winning books at your library? Tell us in the comments.
Even though Midwinter Meeting ended over a week ago, the YALSA Board continues to actively work on Association decision-making and projects. Some of what the Board has worked on in the past week includes:
- Discussing the 2015 ALA Strategic Plan. These discussions are taking place on the YALSA Board’s ALA Connect space and Board members are conversing about questions they have about the plan, how the new plan supports the work of YALSA, and how YALSA can support the work of the ALA plan. ALA is asking for Division feedback on the draft plan by February 15, YALSA will submit their comments to ALA by that deadline.
- Answering questions about YALSA’s selected lists. Last week Frequently Asked Questions related to these lists were posted on the YALSA web site. Over the past several days YALSA Board members have continued to answer questions about the lists. The FAQs have now been updated to reflect the conversations Board members are having. To read an updated version of the FAQs visit the YALSA web site.
- Considering a proposal (via ALA Connect) submitted to the Board from the YA Literature Symposium Task Force. This proposal suggests ways in which to integrate virtual components into the Symposium which takes place in November 2010. The Board is discussing the suggestions made by the Task Force with an eye to serving members effectively and making good strategic financial decisions. The Task Force proposal is available on the YALSA web site.
There is also news about YAttitudes. In order to better meet member needs, at their Midwinter meetings the YALSA Board voted to revise the publishing schedule for YAttitudes. Starting in the spring, the e-newsletter will be published on a monthly basis (instead of the current quarterly schedule) and will include up-to-date information about the Association, members, and services to teens. Over the next several weeks more details about the change will be made available.
As the Board continues their work I will continue to post updates on the blog.
Promote the Morris Award shortlist @ your library® The Morris shortlist is out! You can promote it to teens in your library with a downloadable bookmark (PDF) that allows you to put each book’s location at your library and customize the back with your logo and contact information. Congrats to this year’s five nominees!
Nonfiction Award shortlist next week Watch YALSA’s website and this blog to see the shortlist for YALSA’s 2010 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award! The shortlist will be announced next week. This new award honors the best fiction written for young adults in a Nov. 1 – Oct. 31 publishing year. Learn more at www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction.
Register for YALSA’s Midwinter events Even though today is the last day to receive the advanced registration discount, prices won’t change for either of YALSA’s pre-Midwinter ticketed events: Libraries 3.0: Teen Edition and Games, Gadgets and Gurus. You don’t need to register for Midwinter to attend either one. Details and how to register for them after the jump (you can read about everything we have planned for Midwinter Meeting, including a free program and reception honoring the 2010 Morris and Nonfiction Award honorees, at the YALSA Midwinter Wiki).
Read on for details on YALSA’s pre-Midwinter events, the Young Adult Literature Symposium Stipend, Teen Tech Week registration, and YALSA’s winter online courses.
Pre-Midwinter event details: Libraries 3.0: Teen Edition: Join YALSA from 9-4:30 p.m on Jan. 15 to learn how you can take advantage of free online tools and social networking options to enhance and expand the services for teens, discover strategies to gain funding for technology initiatives and buy-in from administrators, and hear speakers like Stacy Aldrich (futurist & acting California State Librarian), Cory Doctorow (BoingBoing.net, Little Brother), Laura Pearle, Wendy Stephens, and Buffy Hamilton. Lunch included! Libraries 3.0 costs $195 for YALSA members, $235 for ALA members, and $285 for nonmembers. Full details on this event, and all of YALSA’s plans for Midwinter, are available online at http://bit.ly/yalsamw2010.
Games, Gadgets & Gurus: Join us from 8-10 p.m. on Jan. 15! Spend a fun evening networking with colleagues and learning new skills to take back to your library! Come play games – both board and video; demo gadgets like e-readers, mobile phones, digital audio recorders, video cameras and the latest software; and take advantage of the opportunity chat one-on-one with a tech guru. Other participants include Galaxy Press, PBS’ Digital Nation, and Tutor.com. Mingle with colleagues! Enjoy some refreshments! Play with neat tech toys! And go home with great swag! Tickets cost $40; full details online at ht
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Congratulations! YALSA named its two 2010 Emerging Leaders! Anna Koval, teacher-librarian at Casa Grande High School in Petaluma, California, and Amy Barr, youth services librarian and assistant director at Kilgore Memorial Library in York, Nebraska. Both will attend the 2010 Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference. The Emerging Leaders are funded through the Friends of YALSA.
E-Chat Next Week! Mark your calendars! YALSA’s monthly online chats return next week in ALA Connect. On Nov. 4, we’ll be discussing inexpensive programming and ways to stretch your programming dollars with Jenine Lillian, editor of the new YALSA book, Cool Teen Programs for under $100. To join us, visit YALSA’s area in ALA Connect. YALSA members should use their login for the ALA website. If you’ve lost your password, you can recover it through the ALA website. Once logged in, head to the YALSA area (it’s http://connect.ala.org/yalsa or you can navigate there within Connect by choosing “YALSA” from under “My ALA Groups”) and then click “Chats.”
Lit Blog Applications and CE Proposals Due 10/30! Interested in editing YALSA’s new blog, focused exclusively on teen literature? Read the announcement to see the qualifications and find out how to apply. The deadline to propose new continuing education (online courses and face-to-face institutes) is tomorrow as well; see our announcement for topic ideas and the proposal form. Applications for the new blog manager and the CE proposals are both due to Beth Yoke at [email protected] tomorrow.
After the jump, find out how you can sign up for special events at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting, apply for $40K in grants and awards, promote the Teens’ Top Ten at your library, or receive a stipend to attend the 2010 Young Adult Literature Symposium.
Register for YALSA’s pre-Midwinter events Registration is now open for YALSA’s pre-Midwinter events! Sign up for the Midwinter Institute, “Libraries 3.0: Teen Edition” (featuring Cory Doctorow and others) and Midwinter Social Event, ”Games, Gadgets & Gurus.” Register for both and save! Register through Midwinter registration or, if you only want to attend these two events, by downloading this form (PDF; skip section I) and following the directions at the YALSA wiki. Want to add these events to an existing registration? You can add events two ways: (1) By phone: Call ALA Registration at 1-800-974-3084 and ask to add a workshop to your existing registration.; (2) Online: Add an event to your existing registration by clicking on this link. Use your log in and password to access your existing Midwinter registration and add events in the “Your Events” section (screen 6). Then simply check out and pay for the events you’ve added. You can see all of YALSA’s plans for Midwinter at the YALSA Midwinter Wiki, http://bit.ly/yalsamw2010.
Apply for $40K in awards & grants from YALSA YALSA members can apply for more than $40,000 in grants and awards! This year, we will award up the YALSA/Baker & Taylor Conference Grants, theYALSA/BWI Collection Development Grants, the YALSA/Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Award, the MAE Award for Best Literature Program for Teens, the Frances Henne/YALSA/VOYA Research Grant, and the Great Books Giveaway. Applications for all YALSA member awards are due by Dec. 1. Details on all the awards and grants are available online at www.ala.org/yalsa/awards&grants.
Promote the Teens’ Top Ten with bookmarks! By now, you’ve read that teens cast more than 11,000 votes for the 2009 Teens’ Top Ten and seen that John Green’s Paper Towns topped the list. YALSA created bookmarks (PDF) to promote this year’s ten winning titles; you can customize and distribute them at your library.
Apply for a YA Lit Symposium travel stipend! Join YALSA in 2010 for the Young Adult Literature Symposium, Nov. 5-7, 2010, in Albuquerque, N.M, with a theme of “Beyond Good Intentions: Teens, Literature and Diversity.” We’re also giving away two stipends to offset travel costs, one for someone whose worked directly with teens in a library setting for ten years or less and one for a student in an ALA-accredited MLS program (you must be enrolled in an MLS program at the start of the symposium); stipend applications are due by Jan. 4, 2010. Details on both are available at www.ala.org/yalitsymposium.
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YALSA’s Online Courses Cooler temperatures, falling leaves … why not complete the picture by signing up for one of YALSA’s Online Courses this fall? YALSA is offering three courses (including two brand-new ones!): AIMing at Tweens: Advising, Involving, Motivating (taught by Teri Lesesne); Graphic Novels and Teen Readers: The Basics and Beyond (taught by Francisca Goldsmith) and Reaching Teens with Gaming (taught by Beth Gallaway). Read descriptions and register at YALSA’s Online Courses page.
Bundled Registration Open If you’re planning to attend both ALA conferences this year (Midwinter Meeting in Boston, Jan. 15-19 and Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June 24-29) , take advantage of bundled registration and save 20% off of advanced registration for each conference separately. You’ll be able to register for hotels now, too. Starting Oct. 1, you can add registration for YALSA’s Midwinter Institute, “Libraries 3.0: Teen Edition” and YALSA’s Midwinter Social Event, “Games, Gadgets & Gurus.”
After the jump, learn how you can propose a program or paper for the 2010 YA Lit Symposium, see how you can preorder YALSA’s newest book, tell YALSA your opinion on future continuing education topics, and find out deadlines for the Teens’ Top Ten and Teen Read Week.
YALSA’s YA Lit Symposium Needs You Think about joining YALSA in 2010 for the Young Adult Literature Symposium, Nov. 5-7, 2010, in Albuquerque, N.M, with a theme of “Beyond Good Intentions: Teens, Literature and Diversity.” Proposals for programs, papers, and the preconference will be accepted at the symposium website through Oct. 1. We’re also giving away two stipends to offset travel costs, one for someone whose worked directly with teens in a library setting for ten years or less and one for a student in an ALA-accredited MLS program (you must be enrolled in an MLS program at the start of the symposium); stipend applications are due by Jan. 4, 2010. Details on both are available at www.ala.org/yalitsymposium.
Preorder Cool Teen Programs for under $100 YALSA’s newest book, Cool Teen Programs for under $100, edited by Jenine Lillian for YALSA (YALSA, 2009), is now available for preorders! Books will ship in late September. This essential guide offers creative, fun programming ideas at prices that won’t break your budget (plus it has helpful chapters on budgeting and marketing for teen librarians).
Talk to Us YALSA is currently surveying members on topics for future professional development offerings – tell us what you’d like to see addressed in our online courses, monthly chats, face-to-face institutes, and more. The survey will take less than ten minutes and you’ll be entered to win a free online course from YALSA, just for completing it.
Two Weeks That’s how long you have until two big YALSA deadlines: registration for Teen Read Week ends Sept. 18, as does voting for the Teens’ Top Ten. Make sure you’ve registered for Teen Read Week and then encourage your teens to vote for this year’s Teens’ Top Ten. We’ll be announcing the winners during Teen Read Week in a video featuring WWE Superstars and Divas (and maybe a couple authors, too).
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YALSA’s Next Online Chat! Join YALSA on July 1 for our second online chat! President Sarah Debraski will lead a chat on summer reading programs in ALA Connect, starting at 8 p.m. on July 1. Details in this blog post. Can’t make it? Check the YALSA blog on July 2 to see a transcript.
YALSA Needs Usability Testers at ALA Annual Coming to ALA Annual Conference? Help YALSA and ALA improve website usability by signing up to be one of our usability testers! YALSA needs four usability testers to participate in a session on Sunday, July 12, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. in McCormick Place West W-472. Participants will receive a $50 gift card for the ALA Store. Interested? Contact Stevie Kuenn at [email protected] by Wednesday, July 1.
After the jump, read more about YALSA’s Ultimate Teen Bookshelf, the United We Serve Initiative, Quick and Popular Reads for Teens, and symposium deadlines!
The Ultimate Teen Bookshelf YALSA created a new document highlighting must-have teen materials, The Ultimate Teen Bookshelf, available both online and as a downloadable PDF. The list includes 50 books, five magazines and five audio books. Subscribers to the YALSA-BK electronic discussion list suggested titles for the Ultimate Teen Bookshelf, which were vetted by Pam Spencer Holley and Judy Sasges.
United We Serve YALSA is part of the White House’s summer service initiative, United We Serve, encouraging teens and others to volunteer their time this summer. Add your volunteer opportunities for teens at Serve.gov and find resources for participating in United We Serve at www.ala.org/unitedweserve.
New Book! YALSA is thrilled to announce that its latest book, Quick and Popular Reads for Teens, edited by Pam Spencer Holley for YALSA (ALA Editions, 2009) is now available in the ALA Online Store! This fully annotated guide to the Quick Picks and Popular Paperbacks lists also includes essays from top YA professionals on the lists’ history and using them in programming, displays, and readers’ advisory. Interested in meeting the author? Pam Spencer Holley will appear at a meet-and-greet session in the YALSA Booth at ALA Annual (#3034) from 3 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 11. See you there!
Propose a Symposium Program or Apply for a Symposium Stipend YALSA is currently accepting proposals for full or half-day preconferences at the symposium, programs at the symposium, or paper presentations at the symposium. Applications, as well as guidelines, can all be downloaded at the symposium website. Proposals are due to the YALSA office by Oct. 1, 2009 and applicants will be notified of status by Jan. 15, 2010. In addition, YALSA will again provide two stipends to members to attend the symposium: one for a student who will be enrolled in an ALA-accredited MLIS program as of Nov. 5, 2010 and one for a library worker who has worked directly with teens for 1-10 years. Each will receive up to $1,000 to attend the symposium. Applications are available at the symposium website and are due to the YALSA office by Jan. 4, 2010. The 2010 Young Adult Literature Symposium will take place Nov. 5-7, 2010, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is funded in part by the William C. Morris Foundation.
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YALSA's YA Literature Symposium is a biannual event, with the first one ever being held this year.
Topic: "How We Read Now."
Dates: November 7–9, 2008
Location: Nashville, Tennessee at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel.
Here is the list of programs, including preconference. I point your particular attention to this one:
Explaining and Exploring Fandom, Fan Life, and Participatory Culture, presented by Liz Burns and Carlie Kraft Webber. Yep, that's me and Carlie! (Carlie and I? how about, that's us!)
I'm excited; excited about the presentation, and excited about the YA Lit Symposium, excited to see other bloggers on the program list (hi, Mitali! hi Goddess of YA Literature!)
The event is conveniently located during a weekend; tho, if you're like me and just cannot say no to anything YA Lit, you'll also want to be there for the preconference on Friday.
Register before September 1 for the early bird rates for this event. (True confessions; I still have to register. I also still have to make airline reservations. I have, however, made hotel reservations.)
YALSA members get a discount; but here's the thing. If you join YALSA at the same time as you register, the total paid is the same as non YALSA members. (NonYALSA registeration rate = (YALSA registration rate + ALA/YALSA membership).
If you're going to pay the higher fee as a non-YALSA member, why not join at this point and get the benefits of YALSA membership?
Don't work in a library? There is a category for non-library types: it's the Trustee/Associate rate. This application (warning, it is a PDF) has the specifics.
As the conference gets closer, I'll post more; including, hopefully, having some kind of blogger get together.
If you think you're going, let us know; and if you have any questions/comments/thoughts on our fannish program, let us know.
Edited to add: The Program is up, in a PDF, with a full description of all programs and presentations along with times.
Our presentation:
A teen's experience with a book doesn't just begin on page one and finish with the book's conclusion. From birthday parties and proms to fanfiction and role-playing games, teens find many ways to recreate a book's universe in their lives, forming fandoms. Avid fandomers Liz Burns and Carlie Webber will demystify the weird and wonderful world of fandom and show you how to use the elements of participatory culture to plan interactive, teen-friendly programs for your libraries and classrooms. Included on the panel will be a representative from Narrate Conferences, Inc., an organization that plans Harry Potter symposia.
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awesome! thanks for posting this, liz!
-Stevie
Carlie Kraft Webber?! It IS you! That is so weird-- I've been reading this blog for a few months now and all along I've thought, "That Carlie reminds me of the Carlie I went to library school with. Was her last name Webber? No, I don't think so...."
--Amy M, who went to Pitt SIS and is otherwise generally forgettable.
Hi Amy! Yes, that's me. I got married in 2003 and changed my last name. Only I use Kraft as my middle name now and it's on all my ALA paperwork, so when I give my name for official ALA/YALSA stuff it's Carlisle Kraft Webber or Carlie Kraft Webber.
Sounds like a great presentation!
I knew there couldn't be THAT many funny and pop-culture-savvy Carlies in the world of YA librarianship!
And on the topic of the presentation in question, my biggest memory about you was a long discussion about Harry Potter we had on one of the first days of class, and you had a set of Harry Potter pens which I coveted until I managed to track down a set of my own. That was back pre-movies so the stuff was harder to come by!
--amy again