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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 1 FALL 2010 ISSN 1541-4302 $12.50 INSIDE: EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION SERVING YOUTH OFFENDERS FINE ARTS PROGRAMS HISTORICAL FICTION MASH-UPS DOWNLOADABLE MUSIC ...AND MORE! ISSUE COLLABORATION The official journal of The Young adulT librarY ServiceS aSSociaTion young adult library services VOLUME 9 | NUMBER 1 FALL 2010 ISSN 1541-4302 The View from ALA 28 Fine Art Programs, Teens, and Libraries Changing Lives One Program at a Time 4 “I Can Stand a Little Pain” or Why You By Natasha D. Benway Should Get Going in ALA By Steve Matthews 31 Selling Risk to Administration and Colleagues By Linda W. Braun, Hillias J. Martin, and YALSA Perspectives Connie Urquhart 6 Follow the Leaders, Part II One Emerging Leader’s Experience at ALA Technology Perspectives Annual 2010, Diary Style 35 Libraries Catch Up With the By Robyn E. Vittek Twentieth Century 8 Get Involved in YALSA Virtual Committees By Mark Flowers and Interest Groups By Linda W. Braun Young Adult Literature 10 Advocacy Adventures 38 Historical Fiction Mash-Ups By Sarah Flowers Broadening Appeal by Mixing Genres 13 The People in Your Neighborhood By Melissa Rabey Using Local Collaboration to Advocate for Teen Patrons Plus: By Robyn E. Vittek 2 From the Editor Sarah Flowers Best Practices 3 From the President 15 YA Q&A Kim Patton Collaboration 42 Professional Resources By Stephanie Squicciarini, Maureen Hartman, and Erica Cuyugan 43 Guidelines for Authors 43 Index to Advertisers Hot Spot: Collaboration 44 The YALSA Update 17 Four Steps to Effective Collaboration By Penny Johnson 20 High Impact Partnership Serving Youth Offenders About This Cover By Angela Craig 23 Building Strong Community Partnerships This special issue of YALS offers tips and tools for Sno-Isle Libraries and the Teen Project successful collaboration, including successful By Dawn Rutherford partnerships with other library departments, multiple 26 Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award libraries, outside organizations, and more. YALSA Our Partnership for Massachusetts Teens members can find more helpful collaboration tips in By Mary Ann Rogers, Sue-Ellen Szymanski, Laurie Risky Business by Linda Braun, Jack Martin, and Cavanaugh, and Mary Dunphy Connie Urquhart or in Young Adults Deserve the Best by Sarah Flowers, both available at www.alastore.ala. org. Photo credit: iStockphoto.com. 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 ne of the things I love about editing YALS is the way it gives Managing Editor me the opportunity to keep up with what is going on in Stephanie Kuenn O YA-land, and the chance to interact with lots of YALSA Circulation members who are doing and thinking interesting things. For one thing, Young Adult Library Services (ISSN 1541-4302) is published four times a year it gives me the excuse to go around to all the tables at YALSA All- 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- Committee meeting at both the Annual Conference and Midwinter ciation (YALSA), a division of ALA. Subscription price: members of YALSA, Meeting, and talk to committees about what they are doing and what $25 per year, included in membership dues; nonmembers, $50 per year in the U.S.; $60 in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. Back issues within one year might be worth sharing with YALSA members. For another, I hear of current issue, $15 each. Periodicals class postage paid at Chicago, Illinois regularly from YALSA members who want to share their experiences and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Members: by writing about them in YALS.Forathird,YALSAmembers Address changes and inquiries should be sent to Membership Department, frequently refer me to other YALSA members who might have Changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Nonmember subscribers: Subscriptions, orders, changes of address, something intriguing to share in YALS. However, even when I come up and inquiries should be sent to Changes to Young Adult Library Services, with topics and solicit articles from members, the pieces I get back often Subscriptions, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; 1-800-545-2433, press 5; fax: (312) 944-2641; [email protected]. amaze me by bringing up ideas and issues that never occurred to me. I Statement of Purpose am sure many of you have great ideas for articles, so don’t hesitate to Young Adult Library Services is the official journal of the Young Adult share them with me. The spring 2011 issue will be focused on YALSA’s Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. YALS primarily serves as a vehicle for continuing education for awards and booklists, and the summer 2011 issue will focus on Teen librarians serving young adults, ages twelve through eighteen. It will include Read Week, so start thinking about those articles now. 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 In addition, if you have experience in writing and editing, you might librarianship, and will spotlight significant events of the organization and want to be aware that YALSA will be recruiting for a new member offer in-depth reviews of professional literature. YALS will also serve as the official record of the organization. editor for YALS sometime in the spring. Because you, the YALSA membership, generously elected me to be your President, I will be taking Production Cadmus Communications on that role at Annual 2011, and sadly leaving YALS to someone else’s capable hands. Watch the YALSA blog for an announcement and feel Advertising Bill Spilman, Innovative Media Solutions; 1-877-878-3260; fax (309) free to ask me any questions at [email protected]. 483-2371; e-mail [email protected]. YALS accepts advertis- Meanwhile, I am sure you will enjoy this issue of YALS. Its 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 primary theme is collaboration. Penny Johnson shares with us four and provides clear communication between vendor and buyer. YALS adheres steps to effective collaboration that we can all use in all kinds of to ethical and commonly accepted advertising practices and reserves the right to reject any advertisement not suited to the above purposes or not situations. Dawn Rutherford, Mary Ann Rogers, Natasha Benway, consistent with the aims and policies of ALA. Acceptance of advertising in and Angela Craig describe collaborative projects that they have YALS does not imply official endorsement by ALA of the products or services advertised. worked on in their communities. Stephanie Squicciarini, Maureen Manuscripts Hartman, and Erica Cuyugan give some tips and tricks about Manuscripts and letters pertaining to editorial content should be sent to collaboration that have worked for them. Robyn Vittek is back with YALSA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; e-mail: yalseditor@gmail. part two of her Emerging Leaders diary, and also contributes a com. Manuscripts will be sent out for review according to YALS’s established referee procedures. Visit www.ala.org/yalsa for further information. practical article on how to use local collaboration to advocate for Indexing, Abstracting, and Microfilm teens and teen library services. Five YALSA members who won Young Adult Library Services is indexed in Library Literature, Library & stipends from the Friends of YALSA to attend ALA Advocacy Day Information Science Abstracts, and Current Index to Journals in Education. Microfilm copies of Journal of Youth Services in Libraries and its predecessor, in June share their experiences, and Steve Matthews, YALSA Top of the News, are available from ProQuest/Bell & Howell, 300 N. Zeeb member and ALA executive board member, shares some advice Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. about collaborating with our “big ALA” colleagues. Linda Braun, The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of YALSA’s immediate past-president, fills us in on YALSA’s new American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. 1 virtual committees, and Mark Flowers poses some interesting Ó2010 American Library Association questions about downloadable music as a part of library collections. All materials in this journal subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scien- Plus, there’s the YALSA update, reviews of professional resources, tific or educational advancement granted by Sections