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Subscribe to YALSA's Google Events Calendar See YALSA's full events calendar Important Dates Dec. 1: Last day to turn in applications for YALSA member Grants & Awards Dec. 5: Advanced registration ends for Midwinter 2009 Dec. 19: Join ALA President Jim Rettig for an online chat on Gaming Connections. Dec. 24-25: YALSA Office closed Dec. 31: Blog manager applications due Jan. 1: YALSA Office closed Jan. 2: Registration opens for ALA Annual Conference Jan. 23-28: ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver, Colo. Jan. 23: YALSA's Pre-Midwinter Institute: Serving Today's Diverse Teens Jan. 23: YALSA's Mixer & Tech Playground Jan. 26: Youth Media Awards press conference Jan. 26: Last day to propose YALSA programs for ALA's 2010 Annual Conference Jan. 31: Make sure your YALSA membership is current as of today — otherwise you can't vote in the 2009 ALA/YALSA election. See the YALSA candidate slate. Feb. 2: Nominations open for YALSA's selected booklists and book awards Feb. 8: Registration closes for Teen Tech Week Division News Register for YALSA's Mixer & Tech Playground YALSA offers institute on serving diverse teens YALSA celebrates at first Young Adult Literature Symposium Registration opens for YALSA's Teen Tech Week™ "Eclipse" tops YALSA's Teens' Top Ten Read Beyond Reality @ your library® More than 5,000 U.S. libraries celebrate Teen Read Week™ YALSA, WWE kick off WrestleMania Reading Challenge YALSA names first Spectrum Scholar, two 2009 Emerging Leaders Fifteen libraries chosen for YALSA's YA Galley and Teens' Top Ten project YALSA on the Web Give to YALSA Help fund YALSA's future! Make a tax-deductable donation to the Leadership Endowment or the Friends of YALSA. 2008 Friends of YALSA Platinum Circle Gold Circle Silver Circle Bronze Circle Friends' Circle 2008 Leadership Endowment Donors Jennifer Gallant YAttitudes is published by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association © 2008 Design by You gave the Young Adult Library Services Association permission to email you.
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Newsletter Sponsor Since launching in 2006, Chessie Bligh has offered a unique fantasy fiction story for children and young adults — a girl hero. From the Midwest Book Review and Mom’s Choice Award that were bestowed on this best-selling book, to being one of the most watched book videos on the web, Chessie Bligh ensures a fun read for fantasy fans of all ages. Table of Contents Driving to Nashville from Kansas City = 9 hours. Meeting, greeting, attending sessions, socializing, Twittering, and learning = 48 hours. Attending the first ever YA Literature Symposium = timeless! I was so excited to have the chance to attend this YALSA event. If you couldn’t make it to Nashville or can’t wait until 2010’s Symposium in Albuquerque, experience the conference via Twitter, check out the YALSA Blog coverage or listen to our symposium podcasts! Thanks to Wendy Stephens for sorting everyone’s Tweets by session! Thanks also to bloggers Linda Braun, Liz Burns and Teri Lesesne and to our intrepid podcasters, Melissa Rabey, Beth Saxton and Lindsey Dunn! Mark your calendars now for the next symposium in Albuquerque, N.M., Nov. 5-7, 2010. Make Sure You Receive Emails from YALSA. Check your spam folder, opt-in to ALA emails, and tell a friend! There are several reasons why you may not be getting YAttitudes. Make sure that our email address (yalsa@ala.org) is not getting caught in your spam filter. Take a second and quickly check your ALA profile, which is accessed from the login button ALA's homepage. You must “opt-in” to ALA emails in order to receive YAttitudes. Last but definitely not least, make sure your YALSA member friends have done the same. We want to make sure that the newsletter makes it to every member's inbox! Don't Call Us Spam! When you get an email from YALSA and mark it as spam or junk mail, our email software provider marks it as an abuse complaint—and it could result in large email providers like Yahoo and Google blocking email from YALSA or, worst case scenario, we could lose our ability to use MailChimp to provide you with the information you need. If you don't want to receive YAttitudes or any other mailings you receive from YALSA, please click "Unsubscribe" on the lower-left part of the email. Thanks! Coming to Denver? Join us for our pre-Midwinter Institute, Reaching Today's Diverse Teens, and our social event, the YALSA Mixer & Tech Playground. Buy tickets to both and save! See everything YALSA has planned for Midwinter 2009 at the YALSA Wiki. Hurry: Advanced registration ends Dec. 5. Save $$ over onsite rates! Register for Teen Tech Week! Teen Tech Week is March 8-14, and we need you to register. YALSA is a nonprofit organization that depends on its members for support. By registering, you are letting us know that technology and technology literacy is of importance to you and your teen library users. Registration also gives you access to this year's theme logo, Press Play @ your library. Check out the Teen Tech Week website, www.ala.org/teentechweek, for ideas on planning, programs & much more. We're hiring! YALSA needs a new blog manager. Candidates should send a cover letter and resume, which includes writing and Web publishing experiences to Beth Yoke, executive director, at byoke@ala.org. All resumes and cover letters must be submitted via e-mail no later than Dec. 31. For further information, including responsibilities and qualifications, interested parties should contact Beth Yoke by email, byoke@ala.org, or phone, 1.800.545.2433, ext. 4391. Got a great program idea? YALSA is currently accepting program proposals for the 2010 ALA Annual Conference, June 24-30 in Washington, D.C. All proposals must be submitted by Monday Jan. 26, 2009 for consideration by YALSA’s Program Clearinghouse Committee and Board of Directors. All of the following criteria must be met in order for an individual to be eligible to submit a proposal:
Please know that YALSA has just 11 time slots open for programs, so there is no guarantee that all submissions will be accepted. YALSA sessions may be either 90 minutes or 2 hours long. You will be notified regarding the status of your proposal on March 23, 2009. Forms must be submitted online. As per ALA practice, all panelists, speakers, presenters, etc. are expected to fund their own travel costs to the conference and must register for the conference by no later than May 1, 2010. For questions, please contact Nichole Gilbert at ngilbert@ala.org or 1.800.545.2433 x4387. Thank you for considering lending your time and talents to YALSA! Apply for YALSA's Awards & Grants Did you know YALSA is giving out more than $35,000 in awards and grants to its members? Applications are due to YALSA on Dec. 1. Learn more about our awards and grants. Win a trip to Chicago to attend ALA’s Annual Conference! If you are a YALSA member and have never attended an annual conference of the American Library Association, then you are eligible to apply for YALSA’s Baker & Taylor conference grant. Two grants of $1,000 each are awarded to librarians who work directly with young adults in a public or school library to enable them to attend the Annual Conference for the first time. Not a member of YALSA? It’s not too late to join. Just fill out and mail in the application before December 1st, 2008 to qualify. Go to www.ala.org/yalsa and click on the “Awards & Grants” tab in the left menu. If you have any questions, contact Geri Diorio. The 2009 conference will take place July 9-15 in Chicago. YALSA will have many programs, meetings, and events that you won’t want to miss. Visit the YALSA wiki to see details about the events and programs YALSA is offering at the 2009 Annual Conference. For more than 50 years, YALSA has been the world leader in selecting books, videos, and audio books for teens. The conference is also an excellent opportunity to network with colleagues and potential employers. Don’t miss it! —Geri Diorio Boost your collection with the 2009 BWI/YALSA grant The BWI/YALSA Collection Development grant awards $1,000 for collection development to up to two YALSA members who represent a public library and work directly with young adults ages 12 to 18. It is funded by Book Wholesalers, Inc. Start your research project The Frances Henne/YALSA/VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) Research Grant provides $1,000 in seed money for small-scale projects that will encourage research that responds to the YALSA Research Agenda. Applications for the 2009 Frances Henne YALSA/VOYA Research Grant are available from the YALSA Web site at www.ala.org/yalsa. For more information please contact us via e-mail, yalsa@ala.org; or by phone at 1 (800)545-2433 ext. 4390. —Jana Fine We've got a ton of books ready to send to two libraries in need Each year, the YALSA office receives more than 1,200 newly published children's, young adult and adult books, videos, CDs and audio cassettes for review. In the Great Books Giveaway, YALSA and cooperating publishers offer one year's worth of review materials as a contribution to two libraries in need. The estimated value of this collection is more than $30,000. (And the estimated weight is one ton!) Apply today! YALSA's MAE Award for Best Literature Program for Teens Where Did All These Words Come From? Because of several new technology tools, words have been on my mind a lot lately:
These sites, all about words, demonstrate how technology can serve to enhance teen opportunities to read, write, and think. The art of the written word is obviously alive and well online. Gaming during Teen Tech Week 2009 By Kelly Czarnecki, co-convenor, YALSA's Gaming Interest Group Press Play @ Your Library is a great theme for YALSA’s Teen Tech Week (March 8-14, 2009) that naturally lends itself to using many different technologies at the library with teens. Because this is a gaming column, we’ll take some time here to show how to delve a little deeper into a few particular games and what aspects of these games that help teens explore technologies beyond the games themselves. The following games were chosen to discuss for this month’s column because they lend themselves to content creation through other technologies that teens can use to share with others around the world. If your teens can't access sites like YouTube.com or MySpace.com, these games give alternative ways to share content through other social activities online. Wii Music™. Nintendo. Wii. Number of players: single and multiplayer. ESRB: E (Everyone). Players have the chance to conduct an orchestra, play mini-games, and over fifty instruments (violin, flute, and even a sitar) by moving the Wii Remote using the same motions as the real thing. For more information, visit: www.wiimusic.com. Players can create and share with this game when they save their recorded music sessions and/or send them to friends' Wii consoles. Once the music is shared with a friend, then they can play over, modify, and add to it. A great collaboration program between two libraries: see who can create the best tunes! This probably isn’t a game if quiet in your library is an issue. If your library has a time before or after TTW when noise and music would be more appropriate, feel free to cheat a bit and celebrate when you can. Guitar Hero® World Tour. Activision and Red Octane. PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360. ESRB: T (Teen). Number of players: single and multiplayer. ESRB: T (Teen); Lyrics, Mild Suggestive Themes. Players perform songs with various instruments including guitar, drums, and bass. Vocal game play is included. Album art and song creation can be customized and shared across multiple platforms (Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and Nintendo Wi-Fi for the Wii). How awesome is that?!!! Songs can be rated by other players as well. Teens that enjoy Garageband, iTunes, or Last.fm will probably like being able to play this and share their music with others. LittleBigPlanet™. Sony. PlayStation 3. ESRB: E (Everyone); Comic Mischief, Mild Cartoon Violence. Players customize the game itself through characters, platforms, enemies and obstacles. This is truly a game where modification is endless. LittleBigWorkshop is the community sharing web site where videos, photos, and levels can be exchanged. This game is another great idea for libraries to connect and offer a bit of friendly competition between their teens; not to mention teens will learn skills like collaboration, strategy, research and story telling. Spore™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack. Maxis. PC and Mac. ESRB: E 10+ (Everyone 10 and older); Animated Blood, Comic Mischief, and Fantasy Violence. The parts pack is an upgrade to the base game Spore and/or the full version of Spore Creature Creator. Players create creatures starting from an organism and evolve them with an eye towards eventually exploring space. Customizable body parts such as wings and horns can be added, and teens' cute or scary creatures can be uploaded to Sporepedia and shared with others. Board Games Piecepack Please share your own uses of gaming and content creation for YALSA’s Teen Tech Week on the YALSA wiki! Highlights from the YALSA Blog YALSA's blog covers a wide range of material, from news from the YALSA office to the latest in tech that affects teens. Be sure to check the YALSA Blog out. Here a few of our best posts from the past few months. August
Books & Boot Camp a YALSA Feel Good Story Youth Subculture: What it Is & Why it Matters for Librarians September Diversity in the Library Podcast YALSA Resources for SLIS Instructors October Joseph’s Lexically Limited Review of Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist Teen Spaces: Mark Them With Your Teen Scents November Not Like Those Other Libarians The Amazing Power of Facebook Teen Tech Week Nonprofit Supporter DoSomething.org is running the largest youth-led food drive in the country to promote awareness about hunger and homelessness in America. They’ll be giving away five $1,000 grants to youth art programs (visual, performance, music and otherwise) for the best food drives in country as well as other great prizes. All eligible drives must be youth-led (under 25) and completed by December 15th. For more information, visit the Feed the Need website. DoSomething.org gives out $500 grants every week to young people (under 25) who are creating social change in their communities. Right now, they have grants if your teens are making a difference in music, education, and more! Learn about all about the grants campaigns. |
