Illinois - Young Adults & Teens

RE: Successful teen/seniors programs

2009-11-14T13:06:25Z

It was such a great thing to be able to think of that amazing idea. I'm proud of you and hope you will continue to do what you've started. Just wish you good luck for your precious desire. Cheers!!!

A call for young writers

2009-07-28T00:09:47Z

American Veteran Essay Project: This essay project is open to all teens from the ages of 13 – 17

You may select a veteran who has served in WWII or any preceding period all the way through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The veteran might be a member of your family or a person you have known growing up, as long as you admire them for inspiring you or they exhibited the ability to be a role model. If you do not have someone to write a story about the AWON, (American WWII Orphans Network) organization is available to match you with a hero to write about. Make sure you explore how that person has shown the “power of one” and has made a difference in the lives of others. The essay collection will be published in a featured book in 2010 through AuthorHouse. Top essay winner receives a camp scholarship at a National Aviation Museum: www.museumofaviation.org and the 2nd place winner will receive a $50.00 cash award.

Deadline for finished essays is: October 15, 2009

For more information, visit www.americanvetpowerof1.com

Teen Tech Week 2009

2009-02-20T17:41:38Z

Our Teens and Technology group with Idaho libraries is planning many individual activities and I am sure they will want to share in this space.

Teen Tech Week 2009 - What are you doing at your library?

2009-02-06T19:08:30Z

Teen Tech Week is coming up March 8-14. I was just looking over the ALA info about it and wonder what you have planned?

Here's some info about last year's Teen Tech Week.

Please share!

Re: Teen Tech Week 2008

2008-02-28T21:15:13Z

This was originally posted in More Book Displays by mquigley].

This display was for Teen Tech Week at our Library. Our Library ordered and cataloged a variety of new YA music in preparation for this display. I put out the new music, music books and biographies, and a Teen Tech Survey on the display, which was made to look like a jukebox. We also hung records from the ceiling over the display and at the entrance to our library over the circ desk!

Teen Tech Week 2008

2008-02-28T21:02:54Z

In it's second year,Teen Tech Week 2008 is a national ALA initiative working to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries.

You can read here how to prepare.

Is your library doing anything for Teen Tech Week? Care to share your plan or program?

Post in this forum what you or your library is doing to increase responsible technology use amongst your teen patrons.

RE: Re: GN's, Comics, and Manga

2009-01-23T00:55:47Z

Bob Watson:

I don't have much in the way of personal experience to offer this topic, but an online friend of mine does and I'd be remiss not to post his site: http://www.koyagi.com/

Dang!

I just get here and the most recent post is from last May by Bob talking about my web site. Thanks Bob.

OK lets talks manga! The other stuff is fine but I focus on manga and anime so don't have much time for the other works.

BTW I'm not a teen or young adult librarian, just envious of them.

RE: Teen Health

2008-12-19T17:46:56Z

diana falk:

Good info on tattoos. Presents both sides, very objective approach. http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/skin_stuff/safe_tattooing.html

Thanks for the site - this is great!

Teen Read Week

2008-10-09T01:40:57Z

I've seen some great stuff posted about Teen Read Week out there...

A YALSA blogpost about promoting with videos

And the Teens' Top Ten where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year.

What else are you doing?

Re: Teen Health

2008-06-21T00:26:26Z

These resources on teen pregnancies and STDs were forwarded by a staffer from Maricopa County Library. Thought I would share here:

Medline Plus resources on teen pregnancy
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/teenagepregnancy.html

Facts on American Teens' Sexual and Reproductive Health
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_teen_sex.html

About STDs
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/sexual_health/stds/std.html

American Social Health Organization
http://www.iwannaknow.org

Teens and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
http://www.avert.org/teenstd.htm

Re: GN's, Comics, and Manga

2008-05-23T16:18:58Z

I don't have much in the way of personal experience to offer this topic, but an online friend of mine does and I'd be remiss not to post his site: http://www.koyagi.com/

Re: GN's, Comics, and Manga

2008-05-21T20:44:54Z

I've been reading Manga, GN's for quite some time now and I am thrilled that its caught on like it has.

An extremely popular series, I didn't see anyone mention it, is "Naruto". We have (I believe) 13 volumes and there is never more than 5 on our shelf at anyone time. If someone wants a certain volume they have to put in on hold because as soon as they come in someone else grabs them.

A great series, which I, myself, own is MARS. I am planning on donating it to the library. I believe it is 15 volumes with an extra volume as a prequel. "Marmalade" is another sweet one as is "WISH".

My favorite manga happens to be "Yu Yu Hakusho" and my library is working on it.

There are two manga magazines, one called Shonen Jump and the other called Shojo Beat that I highly recommend. Shonen Jump is geared towards boys, with action and Shojo Beat is geared towards girls with mostly high school-ish trials such as romance.

Both magazines have a number of manga titles in them, and they give 2 chapters of each particular manga.

I currently am working at 2 library's one rather large one and one small one and both have Shonen Jump but only the smaller one has Shojo Beat. In both libraries, however, Shonen Jump goes out alot.

Circulating Games

2008-04-17T20:59:46Z

Just wondering who's circulating games (board, computer, console) and how that's working out.

The local administrator's COP (NSLS, in Illinois) shows me that several libraries are circing console games and, while our circ here increases anyway by leaps and bounds, it might be an added something we could use to bring in even more teens.

(I'm after mindshare as much as raw numbers.)

Teen Leadership

2007-02-08T02:13:22Z

So far, after only one event, we're having a successful teen leadership academy, Energy. If you're interested in looking at the schedule and brochure, I've included the links below.

http://homerlibrary.org/leadership/about.pdf
http://homerlibrary.org/leadership/schedule.pdf
http://www.flickr.com/photos/homerlibrary/

Re: Permission Slip for Cooking Class

2007-01-29T05:32:15Z

I don't know if you need any legal jargon in your permission slips, but I spent a few years working in a very large CHI library (300k items in the CHI collection alone) and got to work on lots of "craft" projects tied in with story time. I love the idea! The only thing I can think of is you might wan to avoid peanut butter in case anyone is allergic. Ha! Sorry I'm of no help with the wording on your slips though.

Permission Slip for Cooking Class

2007-01-25T21:22:52Z

Hi everyone!

We've got a program comming up in late February (during vacation week) that features no-cook snacks. We are requiring permission slips for the program since it will involve food and will will probably be using knives.

I was wondering if anyone has done this sort of program before, and if there was a permission slip I could take a look at. Weve got a very basic one that I am modifying, but I would like to see what others have used if I can!

Thanks in advance!

X-posted in Children's Services

Re: OK -- Madden Tournament -- A resounding success!

2006-08-02T17:45:47Z

I'm doing my cross-pollinating thing here:

A member just posted over in [url /forums/thread.jspa?messageID=32365#32365 ]Emerging Technologies[/url] about "a metal, professional DDR dance pad" that was acquired by their library to stage the Dance Dance Revolution games in the YA department. Apparently the pad is the input device --even more intriguing.

(from WIkipedia)
"The game is typically played on a [url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution ]dance pad[/url] with four arrow panels: left, down, up, and right. These panels are pressed using the player's feet, in response to arrows that appear on the screen in front of the player. The arrows are synchronized to the general rhythm or beat of a chosen song, and success is dependent on the player's ability to time and position his or her steps accordingly."

Re: YA staff training

2006-07-25T20:40:30Z

What a great question. I know here in our small library, staff of 3, we do all our "training" sort of "on the job." So, I can't really give you any suggestions on training, but how about some other people?

Re: YA staff training

2006-07-25T16:55:33Z

This is a good question. I think it is often assumed that only YA librarians need special training for dealing with YA patrons. This is such an important age group to reach and not alienate, it makes sense to me to offer training to the entire library staff.

In smaller libraries, there is not the luxury of having a dedicated YA librarian, so it's likely that the staff is better prepared to address the needs of everyone who walks through the door, regardless of age. I'd love to hear some examples of how that works.

YA staff training

2006-07-25T14:05:17Z

Has anyone ever done YA staff training for their library? I need to help train non YA staff how to deal with YA patrons. Has anyone got any ideas about a staff training that might work? Many thanks!