‘Save my library, Bloomberg!’: Library cuts and home schooled children and teens

With the looming NYC library budget cuts, I was struck by one article in particular in the NY papers about the projected cuts – two 9 year old girls who had written in to Mayor Bloomberg (see the Daily News Brooklyn article about it here) to protest the cuts because, specifically for them as homeschooled [...]

The Battle of the YALSA Resources: YALSA blog vs. YALSA-BK

YALSA-BK (no cool logo to feature…) What is it: YALSA-BK is a book discussion mailing list run by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association (ALA).  Users must subscribe to receive regular emails from the list; however, there is a searchable archive that does not require registration. The mailing list [...]

Building Virtual Bookshelves through Shelfari

After painstakingly putting together my collage of pictures for the ‘On my bookshelf…’ post I stumbled across a fantastic program and a very cool blogging tool that I wish I had known about earlier. Shelfari allows you to build a virtual bookshelf that you can have running as an application on your blog — that [...]

Beyond Twilight: Resources for Non-Fiction and Historical Fiction

This past summer one of my favorite librarian blogs posted a “non-fiction rant” bemoaning the lack of YA non-fiction resources. As I went to find YA resources on non-fiction, this post was foremost in my mind because…well, I couldn’t find very many.* I did find several resources that included non-fiction within an analysis of general [...]

YA Professional Journals (and an extra resource)

The journals…. Children and Libraries: is the journal of the Association for Children’s Library Services (ACLS). The articles in Children and Libraries explore a range of topics such as programming ideas to bring teen boys in the library, such as ‘BookTreks’ in which teens explore a new culture or fictional landscapes through food or activities [...]