Links of the Week: 7/4 – 7/10
YA librarians everywhere are debating the proposed elimination of the Best Books for Young Adults committee and the creation of a reader’s choice award. Read commentary at A Chair, A Fireplace, & A Tea Cozy, Alex Flinn’s Livejournal, Bookends, and Librarilly Blonde.
The Wall Street Journal’s Book Lover blog recommends YA fiction to an older reader.
The Wall Street Journal also wonders how the Harry Potter franchise can stay relevant in a Twilight-obsessed world.
Colleen Mondor at Chasing Ray asks a group of YA authors to comment on diversity in the current teen lit landscape.
Publishing Trends reports on the children’s book panel at the NYU Summer Publishing Institute.
Ethnographer Danah Boyd looks at teens’ perceptions of Facebook and MySpace in The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online.
The Gossip Girl books get updated slipcovers featuring images from the TV series as well as an iPhone app for reading the books.
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Now that I’m a certified children’s librarian and ALSC member, I don’t really know that much about the BBYA debate, but it seems sad to me. ALSC has its notables list, so I don’t really get the point of eliminating BBYA. Will have to watch to see how it ends up going!