This award honors a YALSA member for developing an outstanding reading or literature program for young adults. Winners receive $500 and an additional $500 for their libraries. Applications for the MAE Award, along with all of YALSA’s grants and awards, are due to the YALSA office by Dec. 1.The MAE Award for Best Literature Program for Teens is sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust.
Edwards was a well-known and innovative young adult services librarian at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Md., for more than 30 years. Her trust has supported many initiatives from YALSA, including the Alex Awards for adult books with teen appeal and all five rounds of the Excellence in Library Service to Young Adults project.
Read more
Category Archives: Youth Librarians
Youth Librarians – formerly Children and Young Adult Librarians (CAYAL)
CAYAL Fall Program
Hello Youth Librarians!
Please join us on Monday, November 10, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Burnham Memorial Library in Colchester for a workshop presented by the VLA Children and Young Adult Librarians. Our theme is resource sharing. We’ll look at ways to create low cost, exciting, educational youth programs “On a Shoestring”. The fee is $30 for the full day workshop and lunch. (Checks payable to VLA, see CAYAL Program and Registration). Here’s the agenda for the day:
- Preschool story time activities with Ellie Tetrick of Ellie’s Preschool Parties.
- Children’s theatre troupe the Very Merry Theatre with director Don Wright.
- Discussion with Rebecca Goldberg, Fletcher Free librarian, on ways to make the most of community resources.
- CAYAL wiki resource sharing.
- Lunch and Yankee Swap, a youth librarians’ potluck of resources!
- Optional demo of The Early Literacy Station.
Don’t miss this chance to bring new energy to your library programs and meet your fellow librarians! Hope to see you on November 10th.
Questions? email or call Jill Coffrin at jill@williston.lib.vt.us(802-878-4918) or Gizelle Guyette (802-878-0313 ext. 109).
NELA Conference — Plan to Attend
Don’t Miss Out on Discount Rates for NELA 2008!
NELA is accepting Early Registration for “Taking Charge of Changeâ€, the 2008 Annual NELA Conference being held from October 19 to 21, 2008 at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, NH.
If your registration is postmarked by October 10, you can receive a 25-30%!
Here are a few of the highlights:
- Adult Programming Showcase
- Drop-In Resume Review
- Easy Web Fixes
- “Graphic†Nonfiction
- Help! The Teen Librarian Has Left the Building
- Hot Topics in Technical Services
- Leading by Example: Toward More Sustainable Communities
- My College Freshman Is Your High School Senior
- Sophisticated Picture Books
- The Vanishing Male: Guy Stuff That Lures and Hooks
- Special Guest Authors: Simon Winchester, Cynthia Lord, and Michael Palmer
- Special Guest Storytellers: Eshu and Motoko and Raouf Mama
Join your colleagues for all this plus award winners, discussion leaders, gamers, social hours, luncheons, exhibits, exhibits, and more exhibits!
Register by mail or online at www.nelib.org
ALA Great Stories Club, provided by Oprah’s Angel Network
http://www.ala.org/ala/
(Connecting Libraries, Underserved teens and Books)
Now accepting applications for Round II!
The Great Stories CLUB is organized by the American Library Association Public Programs Office (PPO), in cooperation with the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Major funding for the Great Stories CLUB has been provided by Oprah’s Angel Network.
The Great Stories CLUB is a reading and discussion program that targets underserved, troubled teen populations. The program reaches teens through books that are relevant to their lives, inviting them to read and keep the books, and encourages them to consider and discuss each title with a group of their peers. It seeks to show that reading can be a source of pleasure, a tool for self-exploration, and a meaningful way to connect to the wider world. Its ultimate goal is to inspire young adults who face difficult situations to take control of their lives by embracing the power of reading.
ALA Great Stories Club, provided by Oprah's Angel Network
http://www.ala.org/ala/
(Connecting Libraries, Underserved teens and Books)
Now accepting applications for Round II!
The Great Stories CLUB is organized by the American Library Association Public Programs Office (PPO), in cooperation with the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Major funding for the Great Stories CLUB has been provided by Oprah’s Angel Network.
The Great Stories CLUB is a reading and discussion program that targets underserved, troubled teen populations. The program reaches teens through books that are relevant to their lives, inviting them to read and keep the books, and encourages them to consider and discuss each title with a group of their peers. It seeks to show that reading can be a source of pleasure, a tool for self-exploration, and a meaningful way to connect to the wider world. Its ultimate goal is to inspire young adults who face difficult situations to take control of their lives by embracing the power of reading.
Read more
SLJ Webcast Event: CAPTURING STRUGGLING AND RELUCTANT READERS
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Time:2–3 PM ET
Register for this FREE webcast today at www.slj.com/reading
This informative webcast will bring together a panel of experts in reading, media center services, and children’s literacy, including school librarians, educators, and a representative from Capstone Press and Stone Arch Books to cover a range of processes, programs, and ideas that can bolster reading skills, comprehension, and literacy in the K-6 library and classroom.
Greetings
Greetings Youth Librarians!Â
I’m looking forward to serving as your new CAYAL president for the coming year.  I would like to thank Gizelle Guyette, outgoing president, who devoted countless hours to making the library world a better place for all of us who serve children and young adults.  Many thanks, Gizelle! I’m also glad to announce that Jane Napier of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library will join me this year as CAYAL vice president.
There will be a special CAYAL event in November.  This will give us a chance to meet fellow youth librarians, share ideas, and get to know what’s going on at libraries around the state. Watch for details TBA soon.
Please contact me with any ideas or concerns that you may have.  I’d like to hear from you.
Jill Coffrin
Youth Services Librarian
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library
21 Library Lane
Williston, VT 05495
jill@williston.lib.vt.us
802-878-4918
CAYAL Meeting April 17th
Hello Youth Librarians,
 For those of you not yet initiated into the cozy inner circle of our CAYAL distribution list family (just ask), Jill Coffrin and I invite you to scenic Colchester for our spring CAYAL MEETING, to be held Thursday, April 17th, from 2-4 PM at the Colchester Meeting House adjacent to the Burnham Memorial Library.Read more
YALSA Surveys –Pass It On!
 From Barbara Doyle-Wilch on behalf of Don Wood :
    If you are a young adult librarian, this is for you: YALSA is collecting survey feedback to help guide future programs and services developed for library workers who serve teens. If you have teens nearby, please encourage them to take the brief online anonymous surveymonkey survey, available through March 31st, that pertains to their technology needs. The best way to get there is through the YALSA webpage: http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa. Please note that the survey is for teens, not adults. Check it out!
CAYAL Program 2008: Call for Ideas
    Hello fellow CAYAL members,
 As many of you know from my previous e-mails, we the CAYAL section of the VLA are responsible for at least one annual program, the purpose of which is primarily to explore new concepts and/or further develop skills in a specific area of children’s and young adult services (the secondary purpose, to be blunt, is to generate enough revenue to refill the CAYAL coffer so that we will return to a balanced budget at year’s end).Â