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Links of the Week: August 5
The Atlantic examines the growing popularity of YA in an intelligent fashion. The Purple Crayon blog takes a critical look at some of the numbers used in the article to support the argument — just how many unique YA titles are published each year?
Ms. magazine interviews YA author Jacqueline Woodson.
Tom shares some great anecdotes about making connections in the library at Liberry Jam — I’m especially intrigued by his Go suggestion.
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Links of the Week: July 29
Teen librarian Gretchen Kolderup wrote an amazingly in-depth look at YA Lit and why everyone should be reading it over at In The Library With the Lead Pipe.
I loved getting a behind-the-scenes view into the audiobook production of Maureen Johnson’s upcoming book, The Name of the Star, at YALSA’s The Hub.
The Unquiet Librarian shares why her library will no longer be using Kindles after her not-so-great experience dealing with Amazon.
The Eisner Awards winners were announced at San Diego Comic-Con last weekend. Smile by Raina Telgemeier won in the best publication for teens category.
There are lots of great ways to get involved with YALSA coming up: submit research papers to The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, vote on program proposals for ALA 2012, or volunteer to serve on a selection committee.
The seventh round of Library Day in the Life took place this week. Check out the days in the lives of these youth services librarians: Gretchen at Librarified, Abby (the) Librarian, and Kelly at Field Acquisitions (and Stacked).
Justin Hoenke, a teen librarian in Portland, ME, calls for more teen librarians in this amazing post on Tame the Web.
Salon.com makes a case for raunchy teen lit.
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Links of the Week: July 22
VOYA has a fantastic roundup of alternatives to traditional presentation tools, plus lots of great idea of how to use them in new and interesting ways.
Start getting excited for early 2012 books: Publisher’s Weekly rounds up buzz-worthy titles from all of the major publishers.
Kate Hart takes a look at the alleged ‘darkness’ of YA covers and comes to some interesting conclusions. Lots of pretty infographics included!
Alicia at The LibrariYAn has been doing a series of posts on her Hunger Games program this summer.
Another amazing book list from Kelly at Stacked: Asia and South America.
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Links of the Week: July 15
Kelly at Field Acquisitions gives a complete rundown of her mobile library set-up for outreach at a high school summer school.
This is from a couple weeks ago, but Allison at Reading Everywhere has a great series of posts on running a summer book group for tweens.
Want to run an anime club? Abby (the) Librarian recently started one at her library and shares some tips! Check out the comments for some additional resources.
GalleyCat writes about an eBook that embeds songs into the text. While the book itself sounds horrendous, this could be a cool idea for YA books that incorporate popular music and playlists.
Need some decor for your teen space (or office)? Illustrator Lucy Knisley is offering free high-resolution files of her cute and hilarious Harry Potter summary posters for printing.
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Links of the Week: July 8
The Meghan Cox Gurdon Wall Street Journal article debacle rolls on. YA author Maureen Johnson faces off with Gurdon in a WHYY Radio Times show and author Lauren Myracle confronts Gurdon on NPR’s Talk of the Nation.
Um, this YA Cover Color Wheel from Kate Hart is a-maz-ing!
Wonderfully in depth analysis of diversity in award-winning and best-selling teen fiction from Stephanie Kuenn in the spring issue of The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults.
Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians, writes about fan fiction in Time.
Sarah Rettger at Archimedes Forgets is featuring the men of Madeleine L’Engle books in epic fashion. (via A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy)
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has compiled all of their teen data sets and research findings into one handy location.
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Links of the Week: July 1
Variety reports that Jeff Bridges has acquired the rights to Lois Lowry’s The Giver and plans to star in the film. Should be interesting if it comes to fruition!
J.K. Rowling announces Pottermore, an online reading experience for the Harry Potter books coming in October. Sounds intriguing…
A new literary mag, to debut in January, will feature YA short fiction. Submission are currently open (via Publisher’s Weekly).
It seems like everyone was at the ALA conference in New Orleans last week! Reports from Lalitha at So-Cal Library Connection, Kelly at Stacked, Melissa at Librarian by Day, Sarah at YA Librarian Tales, and Abby (the) Librarian. Lots of amazing tips in there for future conferences, too!
Speaking of conferences, KidLitCon will be in Seattle from September 16 to 17 with Scott Westerfeld as the keynote speaker. They’re accepting presentation proposals until July 15.
I’m in love with so many of these fan covers for John Green’s forthcoming book, The Fault in our Stars. Plus, The Wall Street Journal looks at how Twitter and YouTube contributed to the book’s #1 Amazon status.
Five teen titles for all ages from National Public Radio.
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Links of the Week: June 3
Unshelved has a fantastic ode to Sara Zarr’s Sweethearts by guest writer and illustrators Gene Yang and Thien Pham.
Kate Linnea Welsh writes about Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo’s Diversity in YA Fiction website and tour as part of The Atlantic’s new young adult fiction series.
Check out Abby (the) Librarian’s write-up about a tween night she held at her library.
VOYA has an excellent round-up of QR code resources and projects.
YALSA is looking for papers on topics related to YA services for the Midwinter 2012 Meeting.
This Steampunk Summer Reading program from Seattle Public Library sounds amazing!
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Links of the Week: May 20
Ypulse gives a rundown of new TV coming this fall that might appeal to teen viewers.
YA author Sarah Ockler points out the misconceptions in the New York Times’ review of Jennifer Brown’s Bitter End, and Deb Caletti’s Stay.
I love reading about what other people do all day! Sarah from YA Librarian Tales posted a Day in the Life of a Teen Librarian this week.
Check out Stacked for a fantastic collection of teen books set in Europe.
DailyKos has an interview with Sophie Godley, one of the health professionals who created Maria Talks, a website about sexual health aimed at young people. The site has been a target of conservative ire recently.
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Links of the Week: May 12
Check out the shortlist for Nerds Heart YA, a bracket-style competition that recognizes books the feature underrepresented groups.
danah boyd and Alice Marwick released a working draft of a report entitled “Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies.”
Going to ALA? (I’m jealous!) The YALSA blog has some early pointers and the online scheduler is up.
Generate your own middle grade girls’ novel title courtesy of 100 Scope Notes.
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Links of the Week: May 6
Margaret Stohl reviews Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon in the first YA review from the new Los Angeles Review of Books. YA author Cecil Castellucci is the children’s/YA section editor.
Lots of awards this week! John Green and David Levithan’s Will Grayson, Will Grayson won the teen choice award at the Children’s Choice Book Awards. Megan Whalen Turner’s A Conspiracy of Kings won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature. The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price won the Edgar Award in the young adult category. The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith won an Agatha Award for best children’s or young adult mystery.
The Audiobook Community will be offering free classic and contemporary YA audio downloads again this summer. A new pair of audiobooks will be available each week from 6/23/11 – 8/17/11.
Joyce Valenza at SLJ’s NeverEndingSearch compiled a list of non-subscription reading suggestion engines to help with reader’s advisory.
The Swiss Army Librarian has some suggestions for helping parents who come into the library looking for homework assistance for their children.
Andy at Agnostic, Maybe lists five TED Talks librarians should watch.
I’m loving this post from Design*Sponge about fashion inspired by the classic teen black comedy Heathers.
ForeverYA never forgets to be awesome — their new pen pal club is inspired! Time to pull out the Sanrio and Lisa Frank stationery…
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