Just a few examples are the start of Teen Read Week, Teen Tech Week, and the creation of the Printz Award for best young adult book by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), as well as projects such as the Urban Libraries Council's public libraries as partners in youth development.
Adults sometimes impose a double standard on their children and teens, expecting the kids to read "educational" literature while they check out a stack of Danielle Steel books, said Judy Nelson, president of the Young Adult Library Services Association.
S This anthology of short stories, poetry, artwork, and an interview is edited by an author who is a former president of the Young Adult Library Services Association.
In cooperation with the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, and with support from Heckman Bindery, Inc.
This is the second year of the national competition held by WWE and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) to reach reluctant readers and get more teens reading beyond Teen Read Week[TM], YALSA's annual initiative to encourage teens to read for fun.
Not now, dear, I've got to read another book," is the credo of committee members, said Linda Waddle, deputy executive director of the Young Adult Library Services Association of the ALA.
These three groups of youth services librarians - those specializing in public library service to children (approximately preschool to age 14), public library service to young people (approximately ages 12-18), and school library service (grades K-12) - are the organizational ancestors of the present youth services divisions within ALA: the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), and the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).
