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LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION a DIVISON of the AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Young Adult Library Library Servicesservices THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION A DIVISON OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION young adult library library servicesservices VOLUME 9 | NUMBER 2 WINTER 2011 ISSN 1541-4302 $12.50 INSIDE: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TEEN TECH CAMP MAKING SHORT FILMS TECH CRAFTS ...AND MORE! TM ISSUE TEEN TECH WEEK The official journal of The Young adulT librarY ServiceS aSSociaTion young adult library services VOLUME 9 | NUMBER 2 WINTER 2011 ISSN 1541-4302 YALSA Perspectives Plus: 4 YALSA’s New Readers’ Choice Booklist 2 From the Editor By Sarah Ludwig Sarah Flowers 5 New Dues Structure Proposed 3 From the President By YALSA Board of Directors Kim Patton 36 Professional Resources Best Practices 37 Guidelines for Authors 6 Building a Foundation for Teen Services 37 Index to Advertisers By Natalie Houston 38 The YALSA Update 10 Leadership and Professionalism Competencies for Serving Youth By Sarah Flowers Hot Spot: Teen Tech Week 16 No Photoshop? No Problem! Digital Photography Programs on a Budget By Donna Block 20 Crafts for Teen Tech Week By Lauren Comito 22 Mix and Mash @ Your Library (With Books!) By Jerene Battisti 24 Online Marketing Strategies for Reaching Today’s Teens About This Cover By Laura Peowski Horn The cover features poster art for Teen Tech Weekä 28 Short Filmmakers Ò By Jesse Vieau 2011, March 6–12, Mix and Mash @ your library . Teen Tech Week is an annual initiative sponsored 31 Teen Tech Camp by YALSA to ensure that teens are competent and By Sarah Ludwig ethical users of technology, particularly the types 34 Career and Education Fair and available at libraries. To purchase the poster or other Teen Tech Week Teen Tech Week products, visit www.alastore.ala.org. A Collaborative Effort Design by Distillery Design Studio. By Betsy Davis Boling, Lisa McKnight-Ward, Deborah Marshall, and Jennifer Lanz 2010–2011 YALSA Editorial Advisory Committee (performing referee duties and providing advisory input for the journal) Kimberly Bolan Cullin, chair, Indianapolis, Ind.; Sarah English, Omaha, Neb.; from the Laura Pearle, Carmel, N.Y.; Jessica Pollock, Greenfield, Mass.; Cindy Welch, Knoxville, Tenn.; and April Witteveen, Bend, Ore. 2010–2011 YALSA Publications Committee Sasha Matthews, chair, Chesapeake, Va.; Amy Barr, York, Neb.; Editor Heather Booth, Westmont, Ill.; Sarah Evans, Seattle, Wash.; Kathy Watson, Flemingsburg, Ky.; and Cassie Wilson, Rowlett, Texas. YALSA Executive Director Sarah Flowers Beth Yoke Editor-in-Chief Sarah Flowers Mix and Mash @ your library Managing Editor Stephanie Kuenn Circulation Young Adult Library Services (ISSN 1541-4302) is published four times a year nyone who spends any time in a library knows that by the American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. It is the official publication of the Young Adult Library Services Asso- libraries have much more to offer than print resources, and ciation (YALSA), a division of ALA. Subscription price: members of YALSA, also knows that teens are attracted to many of these $25 per year, included in membership dues; nonmembers, $50 per year in the A U.S.; $60 in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. Back issues within one year resources, especially the electronic ones. This year, YALSA’s Teen of current issue, $15 each. Periodicals class postage paid at Chicago, Illinois Tech Weekä will take place March 6–12, and the theme—Mix and and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Members: Mash @ your library—focuses on encouraging teens to use library Address changes and inquiries should be sent to Membership Department, resources to express their creativity by developing their own unique Changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Nonmember subscribers: Subscriptions, orders, changes of address, online content and safely sharing it by using online collaborative and inquiries should be sent to Changes to Young Adult Library Services, tools. There are lots of exciting possibilities, and I’m looking Subscriptions, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; 1-800-545-2433, press 5; fax: (312) 944-2641; [email protected]. forward to seeing the results of projects like creating book trailers, Statement of Purpose music videos, visual poetry, digital scrapbooking, and more. Besides Young Adult Library Services is the official journal of the Young Adult the great ideas that appear in this issue, be sure to check out Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. YALS primarily serves as a vehicle for continuing education for YALSA’s Teen Tech Week Web site (www.ala.org/teentechweek) librarians serving young adults, ages twelve through eighteen. It will include for other suggestions, or add your own ideas to the Wiki. One of articles of current interest to the profession, act as a showcase for best prac- tices, provide news from related fields, publish recent research related to YA the great things about an event like Teen Tech Week is that it gives librarianship, and will spotlight significant events of the organization and you an opportunity to highlight to your community some of the offer in-depth reviews of professional literature. YALS will also serve as the official record of the organization. great things you are doing with teens in your library. So take advantage of the publicity tools that YALSA offers and send out a Production Cadmus Communications press release, or get your city council to issue a resolution in honor of Teen Tech Week. Use this opportunity to share with Advertising Bill Spilman, Innovative Media Solutions; 1-877-878-3260; fax (309) community members, officials, parents, and teens themselves about 483-2371; e-mail [email protected]. YALS accepts advertis- some of the ways you can help teens develop the skills they need to ing for goods or services of interest to the library profession and librarians in service to youth in particular. It encourages advertising that informs readers use electronic resources effectively, efficiently, and safely. and provides clear communication between vendor and buyer. YALS adheres Meanwhile, check out the great ideas for Teen Tech Week in to ethical and commonly accepted advertising practices and reserves the right to reject any advertisement not suited to the above purposes or not this issue. Donna Block shares details about how to do low-cost consistent with the aims and policies of ALA. Acceptance of advertising in digital photography programs, Lauren Comito focuses on tech- YALS does not imply official endorsement by ALA of the products or services advertised. oriented crafts programs, Jesse Vieau shows you how to help teens Manuscripts create short films, Sarah Ludwig describes a Teen Tech Camp, Manuscripts and letters pertaining to editorial content should be sent to Laura Peowski Horn offers some suggestions for online marketed YALSA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; e-mail: yalseditor@gmail. strategies, Deborah Marshall and her colleagues describe a com. Manuscripts will be sent out for review according to YALS’s established referee procedures. Visit www.ala.org/yalsa for further information. Computer Technology Education fair, and Jerene Battisti talks Indexing, Abstracting, and Microfilm about using actual printed books with Teen Tech Week. YALS Young Adult Library Services is indexed in Library Literature, Library & Information Science Abstracts, and Current Index to Journals in Education. Microfilm copies of Journal of Youth Services in Libraries and its predecessor, Top of the News, are available from ProQuest/Bell & Howell, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. 1 Ó2011 American Library Association All materials in this journal subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scien- tific or educational advancement granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. For other photocopying, reprinting, or trans- lating, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions. 2 YALS | Young Adult Library Services | Winter 2011 from the Teens and President Technology Kim Patton s we gear up to celebrate teens and information over the Internet, even in cases creating technology in this issue, it is the where they know the people with whom intellectual A perfect opportunity to emphasize they are sharing information. All too often property. just how important it is that we have the information and pictures shared with Practices such conversations with our teens about the one person are shared again without as downloading ethical uses of technological tools in a explicit permission or even and remixing digital environment. We need to talk to acknowledgment. Teens need to be content are them about their rights and their reminded again and again that once posted, important tools we can share with them that responsibilities. Just consider the recent information has a life of its own and can will benefit them throughout their incident of the teens at Rutgers who wind up in all kinds of unexpected places. educational pursuits and into their allegedly used a webcam to spy on another For a great illustration of this careers. After all, that’s even our Teen teen, who subsequently committed suicide. phenomenon, see this short video from the Tech Week theme: Mix and Mash. But It is simply undeniable that teens are faced Berkman Center’s Digital Native project: not everything on the Internet is free, and with choices that have consequences that http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/ teens need to have some guidance in citing they don’t have the skills, aptitudes, or projects/digitalnatives/2010/09/identities. sources and recognizing the intellectual experiences to evaluate and that the stakes As we plan programs around property of others.
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