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Digital Libraries. Maker Spaces. The Trevor Project. YA Lit. Science Fiction for Young Adults: A Recommended List - David Brin. What books can we give our teens that don't mire them in a swamp of vampires, domineering wizards or nostalgia for feudalism? These are a few of my personal science fiction favorites for young adults, weighted more toward SF and a little common sense mixed with lots of sense-o-wonder. Many are classics that I grew up with...along with some marvelous recent additions. Adams, Douglass: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Seconds before Earth is destroyed to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved...for a hilarious journey across space and time. Anderson, M.T.: Feed A dark tale of a futuristic consumer-mad world where news and advertisements are fed continuously to the brain--till a hacker disrupts the flow during a teen trip to the moon...
Anderson, Poul: The High Crusade Nominated for a Hugo Award. Anthony, Piers: A Spell for Chameleon A humorous fantasy, from the Xanth series. Foundation Trilogy Gibbon's Decline of the Roman Empire with an interstellar twist. Piper, H. Popular YA Lit - Goodreads. LGBT | LGBT @ Your Library. Review: Winger Release Date: 14 May 2013Publisher: Simon & SchusterReading/Interest Level: Grades 8 & up Ryan Dean West, known by some as West and by his teammates as Winger, is a 14-year-old boarding school junior. Younger than all his classmates and sentenced to O Hall–where the “bad” kids are sent–West must tackle his junior year head on. From crushing on his best friend Annie to being subjected to “The Consequence” after losing at poker, West/Winger will keep you laughing from page one.
Smith’s writing creates a very genuine character who gives you a glimpse into the lives of teen boys–from friendship and love to sports and getting in trouble. Winger isn’t an in-your-face tackling of LGBT issues but rather a subtle inclusion and a glimpse into what friendship means. Review: The Culling Release Date: 8 March 2013Publisher: FluxReading/Interest Level: Grades 9 & up When I first stumbled upon The Culling on Goodreads, my first reaction was this: “FINALLY!!!!” Review: Ask the Passengers. Christine A. Jenkins Young Adult Gay/Lesbian Bibliography. This bibliography is an attempt to compile a complete list of titles (in English) with gay/lesbian content, published for young adults. The content may or may not be what individual readers will consider positive; however, this list does give an excellent picture of the historical treatment of gay and lesbian characters in YA literature.
I do try to update the list regularly, but very recent titles may not yet be included. If you know of earlier titles that have been overlooked, please email me with the details. The following list is laid out in chronological order of publication, from least to most recent. A printable chronological list is available here (as a PDF). You may also access the alphabetical list (ordered by the authors' last names), which includes links to images of the cover art. 1960s :: 1970s :: 1980s :: 1990s :: 2000s Donovan, John. Holland, Isabelle. Scoppettone, Sandra. Guy, Rosa. Sullivan, Mary W. Hall, Lynn. Kerr, M.E. Hautzig, Deborah. Scoppettone, Sandra. St. Rainbow Lists « Rainbow Books. How YA Lit Challenges Gender Norms. Librarians are the pushers of the book world. Growing up in the house of an academic-turned-bartender-then-academic-again, it was inevitable, of course, that I’d be reading wildly age-inappropriate books almost as soon as I became literate.
My father used to set me loose in the bookstore to wander freely, never raising an eyebrow at some of the titles on the pile of books I would teeteringly carry to the counter, which was, naturally, too high for me to reach. But it was my middle school librarian who introduced me to science fiction and fantasy after she saw me curled up in the corner on a rainy day with a copy of Rebecca and thought I might enjoy something of a slightly different flavor. She handed me The Mists of Avalon, which seems to be almost Everyone of a Certain Generation’s introduction to the wide world of fantasy, and when I lugged it back to the library a week later, I immediately demanded more Marion Zimmer Bradley. Yes, even the Darkover books with the sex pollen. YALSA (yalsa)
The Daring Librarian. Library Accessibility –What You Need to Know | Assn. of Specialized & Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) The ASCLA “Library Accessibility –What You Need to Know” toolkit series of fifteen tipsheets was developed to help librarians in all types of libraries understand and manage access issues. These issues include but are not limited to: patrons who have cognitive, mental, or emotional illnesses; patrons with learning and/or developmental disabilities; patrons with service animals; patrons needing assistive technologies; and, patrons with physical disabilities. Each tipsheet addresses a specific concern, and was updated in 2010. Assistive TechnologyAutism & Spectrum DisordersChildren with Disabilities (English), Children with Disabilities (Chinese) Deaf & Hard of HearingDevelopmental DisabilitiesLearning DisabilitiesManagementMental IllnessMultiple DisabilitiesPhysical disabilitiesService AnimalsStaffVisionVolunteers with DisabilitiesWhat Trustees Need to Know.
Innovative library services “in the wild” Released: January 29, 2013 By Kathryn Zickuhr Our new report takes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer — and what they say they would use in the future. For this last point, we asked about a range of potential offerings, including online “ask a librarian”-type research service, mobile library apps, library kiosks in the community, and pre-loaded e-readers available for checkout. A breakdown of these ideas’ overall popularity is included below; more information is included in the report, and tables with demographic breakdowns for each item can be found in the appendix. But we also wanted to include illustrations of some of these more innovative services, to see what they look like on the ground. We’ll keep updating the list with new examples as we hear about them. Technology “Petting Zoo” Digital Media Lab Technology help “Redbox”-style library kiosks and outreach services Alabama Iowa.
Reading Wildly: Our Staff's Journey to Great Readers' Advisory. Or, Is Reading Widely Essential? Recently, I put out a question to my Twitter followers. I was thinking about how I could improve my staff's Readers' Advisory skills, knowing that some of my staff members don't read children's books for pleasure (whether because of reading preferences or a perceived lack of leisure time or other reasons I might not think about). I put out the following question: @abbylibrarian: Can you give good readers' advisory without reading widely yourself? Please discuss. I got many, many responses (and here are some): @LizB: theoretically, yes, but it requires reading the professional lit & being v. good at using resources like NoveList @amyeileenk: ...even great resources like NoveList can be misleading; libs need personal background w a book @classicsixbooks: Yes and no.
@ReadingChick: you cant read everything, can you? @bookgirlsb: absolutely! @catatonichic: I think you could GIVE 'good' RA, but I don't believe you could give great RA.