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LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION a DIVISON of the AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Young Adult Librarylibrary Servicesservices THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION A DIVISON OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION young adult librarylibrary servicesservices VOLUME 10 | NUMBER 3 SPRING 2012 ISSN 1541-4302 $17.50 INSIDE: Belpre Awards Great Graphic Novels Listening for the Best and much more! AwardsIssue The official journal of The Young adulT librarY ServiceS aSSociaTion young adult library services VOLUME 10 | NUMBER 3 SPRING 2012 ISSN 1541-4302 The View from ALA Plus: 4 All About Amelia 2 From the Editor The Amelia Bloomer Project Megan Honig By Jennie. S. Law, Maureen McCoy, Beth Olshewsky, and Angela Semifero 3 From the President Sarah Flowers YALSA Perspectives 45 Guidelines for Authors 7 Save the Date for November’s Young 45 Index to Advertisers Adult Literature Symposium! 46 The YALSA Update By Patty Carleton 9 From Best Books to Best Fiction Embracing Change in YALSA’s Selection Lists By Terri Snethen Hot Spot: Awards 12 YALSA Announces 2012 Award Winners and Book and Media Lists 30 Listening for the Best Amazing Audiobooks for Teens By Jeri W. Cohen and Cathy Andronik 32 Cultivating Latino Cultural Literacy Pura Belpre Award-Winning Books in Library Programming for Teens and Tweens By Jamie Campbell Naidoo About This Cover 37 Evildoings, Deadly Exes, and Rock and Roll! Find the best books and media for young adults Read- and Listen-Alikes Supporting the each year with YALSA’s Best of the Best! At Fabulous Films for Young Adults 2012 List www.ala.org/yalsa/best, you’ll find downloadable By the 2012 Fabulous Films for Young Adults Committee tools to promote these titles in your library. Materials were created through funding from the 39 Discovering Greatness: YALSA’s Great Friends of YALSA, www.ala.org/givetoyalsa. Graphic Novels for Teens List You can also join the Best of the Best Reading By Joy Kim and Rachael Myers Challenge at The Hub, http://yalsa.ala.org/thehub, 42 The Cybils: Book Awards from the through July 1. Blogosphere By Jackie Parker 2011–2012 YALSA Editorial Advisory Committee (providing advisory input for the journal) Kimberly Bolan Cullin, chair, Indianapolis, Ind.; Jennifer Brannen, Durham, N.C.; from the Katherine Covintree, Providence, R.I.; Laura Pearle, Carmel, N.Y.; Cindy Welch, Knoxville, Tenn.; and Whitney Winn, Golita, Calif. YALSA Executive Director Beth Yoke Editor Editor-in-Chief Megan Honig Megan Honig Managing Editor Stephanie Kuenn Circulation s the range of materials available to and published for Young Adult Library Services (ISSN 1541-4302) is published four times a year by the American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL young adults continues to grow, keeping up with what’s 60611. It is the official publication of the Young Adult Library Services Asso- new, well crafted, and appealing to teens becomes a bigger ciation (YALSA), a division of ALA. Subscription price: members of YALSA, A $25 per year, included in membership dues; nonmembers, $70 per year in the and bigger task. YALSA’s awards and lists are a powerful tool for U.S.; $80 in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. Back issues within one year navigating the growing field of young adult media. of current issue, $17.50 each. Periodicals class postage paid at Chicago, Illinois and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to In this issue, learn about some of the many awards, lists, and Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Members: committees that help librarians, teens, and fans discover the best of Address changes and inquiries should be sent to Membership Department, Changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. the best. Insiders from several YALSA committees—and a couple Nonmember subscribers: Subscriptions, orders, changes of address, and inqui- of committees outside YALSA—discuss what makes their work ries should be sent to Changes to Young Adult Library Services, Subscriptions, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; 1-800-545-2433, press 5; unique and how librarians across the country can use a variety of fax: (312) 944-2641; [email protected]. awards and lists in their own collection development and Statement of Purpose programming. Young Adult Library Services is the official journal of the Young Adult What books complement the titles on the Fabulous Films for Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. YALS primarily serves as a vehicle for continuing education for Young Adults list? How can librarians use Pura Belpre award- librarians serving young adults, ages twelve through eighteen. It will include winning titles to promote Latino cultural literacy? What makes an 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 “Amazing Audiobook” amazing? Find the answers to these librarianship, and will spotlight significant events of the organization and questions and more, as well as copies of all YALSA of YALSA’s offer in-depth reviews of professional literature. YALS will also serve as the official record of the organization. 2012 awards and lists. Production Plus, get up to date on the Best Fiction for Young Adults Cadmus Communications Committee (formerly Best Books for Young Adults) and an Advertising introduction to the Cybils, a list created by book bloggers. Bill Spilman, Innovative Media Solutions; 1-877-878-3260; fax (309) If you appreciate this issue of Young Adult Library Services 483-2371; e-mail [email protected]. View our media kit at www.ala.org/yalsa/mediakit. YALS accepts advertising for goods or services of (or even if you don’t), we need your help! Take our YALS interest to the library profession and librarians in service to youth in particular. readership survey, available on the web at http://www. It encourages advertising that informs readers and provides clear communica- tion between vendor and buyer. YALS adheres to ethical and commonly surveymonkey.com/s/yals2012. This short survey will help us accepted advertising practices and reserves the right to reject any determine what kind of articles and topics to cover in future issues advertisement not suited to the above purposes or not consistent with the aims and policies of ALA. Acceptance of advertising in YALS does not and will give you a chance to share your needs and opinions. And as imply official endorsement by ALA of the products or services advertised. always, you can send feedback, article submissions, and more to Manuscripts [email protected]. YALS Manuscripts and letters pertaining to editorial content should be sent to YALSA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; e-mail: yalseditor@gmail. com. Manuscripts will be sent out for review according to YALS’s established referee procedures. Visit www.ala.org/yalsa for further information. Indexing, Abstracting, and Microfilm 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 Ó2012 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 | Spring 2012 from the President Sarah Flowers find that I have been thinking quite a all of these at www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists.) bit about YALSA’s awards and selected All of these lists give us plenty to read and I lists recently. talk about, and offer us guidance in For one thing, I am back from Dallas, selecting materials for our libraries. and ALA’s Midwinter Meeting, where I had Immediately after Midwinter, the privilege of emceeing this year’s Youth YALSA previewed its new free iPhone Media Awards program and announcing all app, Teen Book Finder, at the of YALSA’s winners: Printz, Morris, Congressional Internet Caucus’s Tech committee members and YALSA members Nonfiction, Edwards, and Alex (it was Expo. By the time you read this, the app at large were satisfied with the lists, with no ALSC’s turn to announce Odyssey). One of should be available on the App Store (and major changes recommended. One concrete the great pleasures of that event is watching will be coming soon to Android, as well). It result that came from the task force’s work the committee members as their awards are will help teens, librarians, teachers, and is that there will be a new task force to announced and seeing their joy as the rest of parents search (by author, title, genre, and create a manual for the Excellence in the audience acknowledges their choices. It is award/list) the past several years’ worth of Nonfiction Award Committee. The board also fun to spend the rest of the day running books from YALSA’s awards and selected also discussed the feasibility of piloting one into friends and colleagues and asking, “Have lists, and link immediately to the nearest of our awards or lists as an all-virtual you read . ?” “What did you think library where users can find the books. It committee; an ad hoc committee of the about...?”“Canyoubelieve...?” will be a great opportunity to get the word board will continue to explore that option.
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