Links of the Week: 8/7/09
YALSA announces the Great Book Giveaway on its blog. Your library could win over 1,200 new YA materials!
Another useful resource from YALSA: an annotated bibliography of current research related to YA services.
Jezebel has a hilarious clip of Will Arnett reading a passage from Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Justine Larbalestier’s Liar gets a new cover after backlash from bloggers and the author. The original cover featured a white cover model, but the narrator is African-American.
Borders gives its teen section a makeover. Anyone seen one yet?
Ross Singer contemplates the ineffectiveness of public library catalogs over at In The Library With A Lead Pipe.
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I always thought Borders had the lamest selection for teens and I cannot believe it took them until 2009 to realize that they needed to change!