THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION young adult 2012 library library services services VOLUME 12 | NUMBER 3 SPRING 2014 ISSN 1541-4302 $17.50 MOVIES DEVICES INSIDE: EBOOKS RETHINKING LIBRARY MUSIC COLLECTIONS FOR YOUNG ADULTS TEENS AND TEENS PERSONALIZED READING LISTS: A BOOKS PERFECT MATCH THE LEGACY OF MARGARET APPS ALEXANDER EDWARDS CONNECTING AND AND MORE.... COLLECTING ISSUE CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AWARD WINNERS! American Indian Youth Literature Award – ALA/YALSA WINNER FINALIST Young Adult Excellence in Honor Book The Nazi Hunters: How a “The President Has YA Nonfi ction Award Team of Spies and Survivors Been Shot!”: The Captured the World’s Most Assassination of Notorious Nazi John F. Kennedy If I Ever Get Out of Here By Neal Bascomb By James Swanson By Eric Gansworth Arthur A. Levine Books Scholastic Press Hardcover: 978-0-545-43099-9 Hardcover: 978-0-545-49007-8 Arthur A. 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Braun By Kate Sorestad 3 From the President Shannon Peterson YALSA Perspectives 33 Guidelines for Authors 6 YALSA and Best Buy Partnership Brings 33 Index to Advertisers Digital Literacy to Teens 34 The YALSA Update By Jan Chapman Best Practices 8 Creating Teen Leadership Opportunities A Blueprint for Boosting Your Teen Advisory Group By Megan England 12 How Understanding Teen Brain Development Can Help Improve YA Reference Service By Allyson Evans About This Cover Hot Spot: Collecting & Connecting Today, building collections for teens goes way beyond the book, includes a wide-variety of resources, and 15 Rethinking Library Collections for Young requires working both inside and outside of the library Adults building. By Amy Pattee YALSA has many tools to help you connect and collect including yearly lists of the best books and 18 Checking Out Tomorrow’s School Library media for young adults. Find all of the recent titles Collections at www.ala.org/yalsa/best. On that page you’ll fi nd By Wendy Stephens links to downloadable tools to promote the best titles in your library. 21 Teens and Personalized Reading List: You can also participate in The Hub Reading A Perfect Match Challenge, http://bit.ly/hub_rdngchallenge_2014, By Hayden Bass through June 22. Hot Spot: Teens, Tech, & Learning 24 The Legacy of Margaret Alexander Edwards By Deborah Taylor 27 YALSA Announces 2014 Award Winners and Book and Media Lists 2014–2015 YALSA Editorial Advisory Board (providing advisory input for the journal) Angela Leeper, Chair, Richmond, Va.; Michelle Bayuk, Deerfi eld, Ill.; from the Jan Chapman, Strongsville Oh.; Diane Fuller, Baltitmore, Md.; Laura Lehner, The ViewHudson from Oh.; ALA Nicola McDonald, Brooklyn, N.Y. YALSA Executive Director Beth Yoke Editor Editor Linda W. Braun Linda W. Braun Circulation Young Adult Library Services (ISSN 1541-4302) is published four times a year by the American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, s the YALSA report, The Future of Library Services for and IL 60611. It is the offi cial publication of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of ALA. Subscription price: members of with Teens: A Call to Action, points out, in the coming years YALSA, $25 per year, included in membership dues; nonmembers, $70 per library staff working with teens have to think carefully about year in the U.S.; $80 in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. Back issues A within one year of current issue, $17.50 each. Periodicals class postage paid everything from space to outreach to programs to collections in at Chicago, Illinois and additional mailing offi ces. POSTMASTER: Send order to successfully serve adolescents in 2014 and beyond. When it address changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Members: Address changes and inquiries should be sent to comes to collections, the report outlines the future vision in this way: Membership Department, Changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Materials in the collections refl ect the demographics of the Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Nonmember subscribers: Subscriptions, orders, changes of address, and inquiries should be sent to Changes to Young Adult community and the needs, interests, and preferences of the teens Library Services, Subscriptions, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; 1-800- that each library serves, and exist in a variety of formats— 545-2433, press 5; fax: (312) 944-2641; [email protected]. video, audio, books, databases, e-content, etc. Collections Statement of Purpose include content created by teens and others in the community. Young Adult Library Services is the offi cial journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Collections are made up of physical and digital materials that are Association. YALS primarily serves as a vehicle for continuing education easily accessible no matter where a teen is. for librarians serving young adults, ages twelve through eighteen. It will include articles of current interest to the profession, act as a showcase for best Flexible circulation policies and systems allow teens to practices, provide news from related fi elds, publish recent research related to access what they need, when they need it, and for how long YA librarianship, and will spotlight signifi cant events of the organization and off er in-depth reviews of professional literature. YALS will also serve as the they need it. Collections include access to skilled people who offi cial record of the organization. can help teens as well as guiding them to materials.1 Production This issue of YALS focuses on some of the ideas highlighted Cadmus Communications in the above vision. Seattle Public Library Teen Services Librarian Advertising Hayden Bass outlines how to provide a web-based readers’ advisory Bill Spilman, Innovative Media Solutions; 1-877-878-3260; fax (309) 483- service that teens will gravitate to. And, Simmons College Graduate 2371; e-mail [email protected]. View our media kit at www.ala.org/yalsa/mediakit. YALS accepts advertising for goods or services School of Library and Information Science faculty member Amy of interest to the library profession and librarians in service to youth in Pattee considers how collections of today and tomorrow should particular. It encourages advertising that informs readers and provides clear communication between vendor and buyer. YALS adheres to ethical and be presented and organized. School librarian Wendy Stephens commonly accepted advertising practices and reserves the right to reject any discusses the importance of connecting teens to both physical and advertisement not suited to the above purposes or not consistent with the aims and policies of ALA. Acceptance of advertising in YALS does not imply digital collections. And, Deborah Taylor, School and Student offi cial endorsement by ALA of the products or services advertised. Services Manager at the Enoch Pratt Library (Baltimore), explores Manuscripts the legacy of Margaret A. Edwards and informs readers how Manuscripts and letters pertaining to editorial content should be sent to YALSA is going to continue that legacy by helping library staff bring YALSA, 50 E.