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THE ADVOCACY ISSUE THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION VOLUME NUMBER 15 03 CYPHER AS YOUTH ADVOCACY SPRING 2017 LIBRARIES AS REFUGE FOR ADVOCATING FOR CREATING A UNIQUE MARGINALIZED YOUTH TEENS IN PUBLIC BRAND FOR YOUR $17.50 » ISSN 1541-4302 LIBRARIES + SCHOOL LIBRARY registration now open! YALSA’SYALSA’SYoungYoung AdultAdult ServicesServices Louisville,Louisville, KYKY •• NovemberNovember 3–5,3–5, 20172017 # YA LS A17 JOIn us as we explore ways to empower teens to increase your library’s impact! The Official Journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association SPRING 2017 VOLUME 15 | NUMBER 3 CONTENTS ISSN 1541-4302 HIGHLIGHT FEATURES 4 25 YALSA’S SELECTED LISTS, 2.0 ADVOCATING FOR TEENS IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES+ 6 » Tiffany Boeglen & Britni Cherrington-Stoddart THE LIBRARY’S ROLE IN PROTECTING TEENS’ PRIVACY: 31 A YALSA POSITION PAPER CREATING A UNIQUE BRAND FOR YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARY 8 » Kelsey Barker ANSWERING THE CALL FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL COLLEGE 36 AND CAREER READINESS: YALSA “FUTURE READY” LIBRARIES AS REFUGE FOR MARGINALIZED YOUTH PROJECT KICKS OFF » Deborah Takahashi » Laura Pitts 40 10 FROM AWARENESS TO ADVOCACY: AN URBAN TEEN REIMAGINED LIBRARY SERVICES FOR AND WITH TEENS LIBRARIAN’S JOURNEY FROM PASSIVITY TO ACTIVISM 11 » David Wang 2017 YALSA BOOK AWARD WINNERS AND SELECTED 43 BOOK AND MEDIA LISTS MAKING A CASE FOR TEENS SERVICES: TRANSFORMING LIBRARIES AND PUBLISHING » Audrey Hopkins EXPLORE 15 RESEARCH ROUNDUP: ADVOCACY: A FOCUS ON PRIVACY PLUS AND SURVEILLANCE » Lucia Cedeira Serantes 2 45 FROM THE EDITOR GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS » Crystle Martin INDEX TO ADVERTISERS 3 46 TRENDING FROM THE PRESIDENT THE YALSA UPDATE 18 » Sarah Hill USING MEDIA LITERACY TO COMBAT YOUTH EXTREMISM » D.C. Vito YALS ON THE WEB 21 » Want more YALS ? Members and subscribers can access the latest and CYPHER AS YOUTH ADVOCACY back issues of YALS digitally on the YALSAblog at http://yalsa.ala.org/ » Rica G blog/yals/, as well as browse supplemental YALS articles and resources. WINTER 2017 » YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES » YALS 1 FROM THE EDITOR Crystle Martin n 2015, YALSA embarked on the safe spaces and unhampered access to strategic planning process. The new resources. Iorganization plan (adopted by the In the Trending section, D. C. Vito, YALSA Board in Spring 2016) centers executive director and cofounder of on three priority areas that YALSA The LAMP, ties teaching teens media will focus on over the next three literacy as a way to help them take years. Those priority areas are Advo- action for themselves. Rica G., an cacy, Fund and Partner Development, Atlanta-based lyricist and educator, and Leading the Transformation for describes using Hip Hop as a way to Teen Services. The Winter 2017 issue empower youth. focused on Cultural Competence, a Three articles focus on taking action part of Leading the Transformation for for teen services in public and school Teen Services. This issue will focus on libraries. Kelsey Barker, a teacher Taking Action through Advocacy. librarian from Longfellow Middle The issue covers taking action from School, looks at creating a library different angles. The research roundup brand as a way to emphasize the im- article, by Lucia Cedeira Serantes, an pact of school libraries in their com- assistant professor at Queens College, munity. Audrey Hopkins, who oversees covers supporting teen privacy and teen services at Smith Public Library, protecting against surveillance in the makes a case for advocating for teen library. This dovetails nicely with the services. David Wang, a librarian at the new YALSA position paper by Mary Elmhurst Community Library, de- K. Chelton, “The library’s role in scribes how he moved from awareness protecting teens’ privacy,” adopted by to taking action both with his library the YALSA Board at Midwinter 2017. administration and larger bureaucratic Deborah Takahashi, a branch librar- structures outside of the library. ian at the Pasadena Public Library, Don’t forget that the YALSAblog expands the idea of teens needing includes additional materials that com- to have trust in the library by offer- plement the print YALS. You’ll fi nd ing perspective on how libraries can that content at: http://yalsa.ala.org/ reaffi rm their roles as providers of blog/category/yals Masthead 2016-2017 YALS/YALSABLOG EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. It is the o cial publication of IL 60611; 1-800- 545-2433, press 5; fax: (312) 944-2641; Dr. Crystle Martin, Long Beach, Calif., & Allison Renner, Memphis, Tenn. the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division [email protected]. 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Huron St., Chicago, record of the organization. 2 YALS » YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES » SPRING 2017 FROM THE PRESIDENT Sarah Hill he timing of our YALS advocacy ies, and can interlibrary loan them, issue couldn’t be better—the thanks to daily delivery, funded, in Trecently released White House part, with LSTA funds and the Illinois budget is a call to action for all who State Library. My patrons wouldn’t support teens and libraries. The budget receive the library service they expect eliminates all funding to the Insti- without LSTA funds. And so, I advo- tute of Museum and Library Services cate to #saveimls. (IMLS). Many people I’ve spoken to ALA and YALSA need your help aren’t sure how IMLS funding affects to ensure that IMLS is saved, because their library or their community. without libraries, teens will not have Check out this database (https:// the resources and support they need www.imls.gov/grants/awarded-grants) to succeed in school and prepare for to fi nd out, but remember that IMLS college, careers, and life. Please follow provides more than just competitive the YALSA blog to track our recent grant monies. The IMLS Grants to efforts to #saveimls, and join the fi ght States Program is its largest grant at ALA’s new website http://www.ala. program – providing funds to all states. org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/ In my state of Illinois, that amount was fi ght-for-libraries. Don’t forget to more than $5.4 million in 2016. How invite your Congress members to your do your state libraries use those funds? libraries during District Days in April Click on your state to fi nd a fi ve-year (check out the YALSA wiki for more plan: https://www.imls.gov/grants/ information) and sign up to partici- grants-state/state-allotments. pate in National Library Legislative Thanks to LSTA funds from IMLS Day. Held on May 2nd in Washington through the Illinois State Library, my D.C., you can also participate virtually regional library system (covering most through social media, and, as always, of central and southern Illinois) added by calling and emailing your own 61 new libraries to our consortial members of Congress. online catalog through the Dream Advocacy was also on everyone’s Grant. Thanks to this FY15 grant, my minds at ALA Midwinter in Atlanta. community college patrons have easy access to the materials in those librar- (continued on page 5) PRODUCTION aims and policies of ALA. 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