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THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION five ye ng ar ti s a o r f b y e a l l e s c young adult c e s l l e a b y r 5 f a t o in rs librarylibrary services services g five yea VOLUME 6 | NUMBER 2 WINTER 2008 ISSN 1541-4302 $12.50 INSIDE: INFORMATION TOOLS MUsiC WEB siTes TOP FIFTY GAMinG CORE COLLECTION TITLES INTERVIEW WITH KIMBERLY NEWTON FUSCO INFORMATION LITERACY AND MUCH MORE! TM ISSUE! TEEN TECH WEEK TM TM TEEN TECH WEEK MARCH 2-8, 2008 ©2007 American Library Association | Produced in partnership with YALSA | Design by Distillery Design Studio | www.alastore.ala.org march 2–8, 2008 for Teen Tech Week™ 2008! Join the celebration! Visit www.ala.org/teentechweek, and you can: ã Get great ideas for activities and events for any library, at any budget ã Download free tech guides and social networking resources to share with your teens ã Buy cool Teen Tech Week merchandise for your library ã Find inspiration or give your own ideas at the Teen Tech Week wiki, http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/ Teen_Tech_Week! Teen Tech Week 2008 National Corporate Sponsor www.playdnd.com ttw_fullpage_cmyk.indd 1 1/3/2008 1:32:22 PM THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION young adult library services VOLUME 6 | NU MBER 2 WINTER 2008 ISSN 1541-4302 YALSA Perspective 33 Music Web Sites for Teen Tech Week 6 Margaret Edwards Award Turns 20 and Beyond By Betty Carter and Pam Spencer Holley By Kate Pritchard and Jaina Lewis 36 Top Fifty Gaming Core Collection Titles School Library Perspective Compiled by Kelly Czarnecki 14 Do We Still Dewey? By Christine Allen Literature Surveys and Research 39 Information Literacy As a Department Teen Perspective Store 15 Teens’ Top Ten Redux Applications for Public Teen Librarians Readers from New Jersey Talk about the By Dr. Donna L. Gilton Winning Books of 2007 By Kimberly Paone Author Perspective Plus . 19 Great Strength to Those Who Read 2 From the Editor An Interview with Kimberly Newton Fusco Tuning In By Dominique McCafferty By Valerie A. Ott 4 From the President Best Practices By Paula Brehm-Heeger ® 22 Noise @ the library ! 31 Guidelines for Authors By Deimosa Webber-Bey 31 Index to Advertisers Hot Spot: Teen Tech Week 43 Professional Resources 24 Partnerships for Teen Tech Week By Stephanie Iser 45 The YALSA Update 27 Information Tools Using Blogs, RSS, and Wikis As Professional Resources By Beth Saxton About This Cover 30 From Platforms to Books? I’m Game Poster art for Teen Tech Week™ (TTW), By Rollie Welch March 2–8, 2008. TTW is a national initiative sponsored by YALSA to ensure teens are com- petent and ethical users of technologies, espe- cially those offered through libraries. Let the teens in your community know that the library is the source for electronic resources such as DVDs, databases, audiobooks, electronic games, and more. To purchase the poster and other TTW materials, go to www.alastore.ala .org. Poster design by Distillery Design Studio. YALSA Editorial Advisory Committee (performing referee duties and providing advisory input for the journal) Mary Ann Nichols, chair, Fairlawn, Ohio; Julie Thomas Bartel, Sandy, Utah; from the Sarah English, Omaha, Neb.; Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax, N.S.; Angela S. Leeper, Wake Forest, N.C.; Nicole M. Mills, Palatine, Ill. YALSA Publications Committee Erminia Mina Gallo, chair, Seven Hills, Ohio; Heather Booth, Westmont, Editor Ill.; Cindy Mediavilla, Culver City, Calif.; Elizabeth Shuping, Florence, S.C.; Emily Valente, New York. Editor Valerie A. Ott Valerie A. Ott YALSA Executive Director Beth Yoke YALSA Division Coordinator Stephanie Kuenn Circulation Tuning In Young Adult Library Services (ISSN 1541-4302) is published four times a year by the American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, If you haven’t already, be sure to register for YALSA’s second IL 60611. It is the official publication of the Young Adult Library Services annual Teen Tech Week, which will take place March 2–8, 2008. Association (YALSA), a division of ALA. Subscription price: members of YALSA, $25 per year, included in membership dues; nonmembers, $50 YALSA established this initiative last year in recognition of the per year in the U.S.; $60 in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. Back fact that technology is integral to teens’ lives. In fact, according issues within one year of current issue, $15 each. Periodicals class postage paid at Chicago, Illinois and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: to the Pew Internet Study, teens spend an average of more than Send address changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., six hours a day using media of varying types. Considering that Chicago, IL 60611. Members: Address changes and inquiries should be sent to Membership Department, Changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 teens spend approximately seven hours each day in a classroom, I E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Nonmember subscribers: Subscriptions, thought this number seemed high. However, I suppose I shouldn’t orders, changes of address, and inquiries should be sent to Changes to Young Adult Library Services, Subscriptions, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; be surprised, especially as, living across from our local high school, 1-800-545-2433, press 5; fax: (312) 944-2641; [email protected]. I watch as teens walk home at 3 p.m., talking on their cell phones, Statement of Purpose listening to their iPods, and texting their friends. Similarly, I Young Adult Library Services is the official journal of the Young Adult was amused and slightly perplexed one day when I observed two Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library teenagers at a popular eatery. When one got up from the table Association. YALS primarily serves as a vehicle for continuing education for librarians serving young adults, ages twelve through eighteen. It will include to refill her drink, her companion immediately got on his phone articles of current interest to the profession, act as a showcase for best prac- and held a twenty-second conversation with another friend that tices, provide news from related fields, publish recent research related to YA librarianship, and will spotlight significant events of the organization and went something like this: “Hey, what’re you doing?” (Pause for offer in-depth reviews of professional literature. YALS will also serve as the reply.) “Nothing, I’m with Britney at Panera.” (Pause for reply.) official record of the organization. “Yeah, OK, see ya.” This interaction, though brief, is the way teens Production interact: digitally and constantly. Presumably, cell phone usage con- ALA Production Services—Troy D. Linker, Karen Sheets, Chris Keech, and Tim Clifford. tinues on into the evening, not to mention the time spent down- Advertising loading music, browsing the Web for pleasure or homework, and Bill Spilman, Innovative Media Solutions; 1-877-878-3260; fax (309) 483- playing video games. Speaking of downloading music, this year’s 2371; e-mail [email protected]. YALS accepts advertising for goods or services of interest to the library profession and librarians in theme—Tune In @ your library®—focuses on music and sound. service to youth in particular. It encourages advertising that informs readers Although teens today listen to and acquire music differently than and provides clear communication between vendor and buyer. YALS adheres we used to, one thing has remained the same: music has univer- to ethical and commonly accepted advertising practices and reserves the right to reject any advertisement not suited to the above purposes or not consistent sally appealed to teens through the decades. Today, music is almost with the aims and policies of ALA. Acceptance of advertising in YALS does ubiquitous in teens’ lives due to its availability through MP3 play- not imply official endorsement by ALA of the products or services advertised. ers and the Internet. Manuscripts Hopefully, this year’s Teen Tech Week will help you find ways Manuscripts and letters pertaining to editorial content should be sent to YALSA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; e-mail: [email protected]. to make sure teens are responsible users of all that is digital, thereby Manuscripts will be sent out for review according to YALS’s established ref- making you a trusted and savvy professional. Visit www.ala.org/ eree procedures. Visit www.ala.org/yalsa for further information. teentechweek to register for the event and to get activity ideas for Indexing, Abstracting, and Microfilm this year’s initiative. And, don’t forget to check out the YALSA blog Young Adult Library Services is indexed in Library Literature, Library & Information Science Abstracts, and Current Index to Journals in Education. for topics related to Teen Tech Week as well. Not surprisingly, this Microfilm copies of Journal of Youth Services in Libraries and its predecessor, issue of is dedicated to Teen Tech Week and focuses on issues Top of the News, are available from ProQuest/Bell & Howell, 300 N. Zeeb YALS Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. and ideas pertaining to this year’s theme and on technology in gen- eral. The Hot Spot contains a webliography of music-related Web The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper sites, Web tools, and partnership ideas for a successful Teen Tech for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. ∞ Week as well as books related to gaming, among other articles. So, if © 2008 American Library Association All materials in this journal subject to copyright by the American Library you’re at a loss for how to observe this year’s celebration, or just feel Association may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scien- a bit disconnected from your teens due to the constantly changing tific or educational advancement granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976.
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