FSG bw page cvr2 The official journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association VOLUME 3 NUMBER 4 SUMMER 2005 ISSN 1541-4302 CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR 17 The Okatu’s View on Manga INTERNATIONAL 2 Christina Cuchinotta PERSPECTIVE 18 Manga Madness in 39 Adult Graphic Novels Readers COLUMNS the Library A Survey in a Angie Espelage Montréal Library 4 Perspectives on YA Practice Olivier Charbonneau Common YA Models of Service in Public Libraries: SCHOOL/PUBLIC 43 Teenage Reluctant Readers Advantages and Disadvantages LIBRARY and Graphic Novels Mary K. Chelton PERSPECTIVE Clare Snowball 7 The Frances Henne/YALSA/ 19 Holy Reading Revolution, 46 ¿Es Un Pájaro? ¿Es Un Avión? VOYA Research Grant Batman! . ¡Es Supermán! Planning, Nurturing and Developing a Graphic Novel Spanish Comics for Growing the Field of Young Collection for Young Adults American Libraries Adult Research Alison Ching Lucia Cedeira Serantes Bridgid Fennell 22 Y Archive? 10 Research Resources The Rapid Rise of Graphic THE UPDATE for Librarians Novels and Their Place in the Research Committee Column Cleveland Public Library 49 Jami L. Jones Rollie Welch and INDEX TO Julianne Brown ADVERTISERS PUBLISHER/AUTHOR 25 Who Is Reading Manga? 45 PERSPECTIVE One High School’s Story 12 Bone and Scholastic Graphix Melissa Bergin An Interview with Jeff 27 Japan Comes to Elizabeth, Smith and Jean Feiwel New Jersey (with John Mason) A Week of Japanese Katherine Kan Entertainment for Teens 14 OUCH! Kimberly Paone About the Cover An Interview with Papercutz Attract teen and ’tween readers with 30 I Got Graphic! manga favorite Megatokyo®, cre- publisher Terry Nantier Using Visual Literature Works! Jana Fine ated by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Jodi Leckbee Caston. Original artwork provided by 32 Get Animated Gallagher with thanks to Dark Horse TEEN PERSPECTIVE @ your library® Books. Available at www.alastore.ala. 16 Graphic Generation Kristin Fletcher-Spear and org or call 1-866-746-7252. Chris Fallis Merideth Jenson-Benjamin FROM THE EDITOR he other day, I was in my teen room sitting at the service desk. A young woman entered, YALSA Publications Committee (performing referee duties and providing advisory input for the journal) cautiously looking around try- Donald Kenney, Chair, Blacksburg, Virginia Lauren Adams, Newton, Massachusetts ing to scope out something Julie Bartel, Salt Lake City, Utah Tspecific. Sadly, she turned and was about Sophie R. Brookover, Voorhees, New Jersey Jeanette C. Larson, Austin, Texas to leave when I asked if I could help. She Cassie H. Wilson, St. Marys, Ohio looked down and mumbled something about manga. I walked her over to the Executive Director graphic novel section (kept only in the teen Beth Yoke room) and asked if this was what she was interested in. Well, it Division Coordinator was as if the sun suddenly rose in the sky, complete with birds Esther Murphy singing and flowers blooming. She turned to me and as if in a wonderful dream, she whispered, “Oh, yes!” She spent about Editor Jana Fine thirty minutes or so perusing our collection and finally decided Circulation on about twenty manga and anime titles. I have never seen 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 60611. It is the official a more contented look in a teen’s face than that young girl’s publication of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of ALA. when she left. 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And reading comics such as Archie, Superman, and the Library Services, Subscriptions, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; 1-800-545-2433, press Fantastic Four (I really liked and connected to the Thing). It’s 5; fax: (312) 944-2641; [email protected]. interesting to note that that young woman and I will share a Statement of Purpose common memory—reading comics. Young Adult Library Services is the official journal of the Young Adult Library Services As you peruse the many and fascinating articles on graphic Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. YALS primarily serves as a vehicle for continuing education for librarians serving young adults, ages 12 novels and their rise in popularity, think back to what you might through 18. It will include articles of current interest to the profession, act as a showcase have read as a ’tween. I think that we all can connect to that for best practices, provide news from related fields, and will spotlight significant events of the organization and offer in-depth reviews of professional literature. YALS will also serve moment in time when our visual landscapes included precursors as the official record of the organization. of graphic novels. And that is our bridge to our teen clientele. From traditional comics to specialized manga titles, the wealth Production of graphic novels in many forms is a constant for today’s youth. ALA Production Services—Troy D. Linker, Angela Hanshaw; Stephanie Kuenn, Kristen McKulski, Karen Sheets, and Christine Velez, Production Editors. And it seems that, as quirky as this may sound, graphic novels seem to embody the basic elements of YALSA’s strategic plan— Advertising The Goldman Group, 14497 N. Dale Mabry Hwy., #205N, Tampa, FL 33618. (813) 264- advocacy, marketing, and research. Advocacy—because librarians 2772; [email protected]. YALS accepts advertising for goods or services of interest to the library profession and librarians in service to youth in particular. It encourages advertis- purchase and defend their place on the stacks. Marketing—many ing that informs readers and provides clear communication between vendor and buyer. librarians plan programs and lesson plans around anime and YALS adheres to ethical and commonly accepted advertising practices and reserves the right to reject any advertisement not suited to the above purposes or not consistent with manga. Research—public and school staff formulate questions the aims and policies of ALA. Acceptance of advertising in YALS does not imply official for their teen clientele and students in an effort to find out what endorsement by ALA of the products or services advertised. kind of graphic novels they want. Manuscripts This issue is devoted to the graphic novel—in all of its Manuscripts and letters pertaining to editorial content should be sent to YALSA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; e-mail: [email protected]. Manuscripts will be sent out for varieties, as well as two new columns: Perspectives on YA review according to YALS’s established referee procedures. Visit www.ala.org/yalsa for Practice by Mary K. Chelton and a research column by YALSA’s further information. Research Committee. Indexing, Abstracting, and Microfilm I hope you have enjoyed the beginning voyage we have 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 undertaken together in establishing YALS as the official journal Services in Libraries and its predecessor, Top of the News, are available from ProQuest/Bell of YALSA. I have enjoyed my editorship immensely. But as of this & Howell, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. issue, I will take my leave and let another capable captain steer The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American the ship into exciting new areas of YA librarianship. Thank you National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. ∞ all for your support and friendship throughout my tenure. I look © 2005 American Library Association forward to seeing everyone at Annual Conference as well as work- All materials in this journal subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or educational advance- ing with our talented members on new projects and activities. ment granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. For other photocopying, reprinting, or translating, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and continued on page 15 Permissions. 2 SUMMER 2005 ● YALS Harcourt bw page 3 COLUMN Perspectives on YA Practice Common YA Models of Service in Public Libraries: Advantages and Disadvantages Mary K. Chelton It would be wonderful to have Deserve the Best should influence the title, which, in turn, was related to the a separate YA space and a YA choices, but they often only come into size of those libraries as measured by the librarian, but we haven’t the play later when initial choices are reex- number of patrons per week. The larg- space or the personnel budget. amined or reconfigured.1 For this article, est libraries, those with one thousand or And so we function in the library “service model” refers to the unique local more patrons a week, in other words, had that we have, rather than the configuration of staff, position titles, ser- specialist YA positions, but most public library that we would like to have vice delivery area, collection, and services libraries are not large, and the lack of a .