Archive for January, 2008
The Legislation Committees of YALSA, ALSC and AASL are asking for your help with a fun project. This Valentine’s Day, have your teens flood federal elected officials’ district offices with Valentines that express love for your library and its staff and ask for support for important legislation.
The ALA Youth Divisions - AASL, ALSC and YALSA - are sending out a call to action to library workers to have teens, children, parents and library supporters in their community send “I Love My Teen Services Librarian” or “I Love My School Librarian” Valentine cards to their U.S. Senators and Representatives, and to ask their elected officials to co-sponsor the SKILLS Act and/or support LSTA funding for libraries. Their voices are powerful and need to be heard, and you can help them do that! Let the legislators know you and your patrons support:
- The SKILLs Act, which guarantees that all students in the U.S. will be served by state-certified library media specialists and will have the resources they need to succeed.
- The Library Services Technology Act (LSTA), which can help libraries of all kinds expand services and access to information resources for people of all ages.
How can you make this happen? Host a program in your public or school library and invite teens, parents, children and library supporters to make and sign “I Love My Librarian” valentines. Make it a fun craft project for the whole family!
Find out more about this exciting project on the YALSA wiki at:
http://tinyurl.com/32frpb
January 24th, 2008
Do you know teen bloggers who would be interested in blogging for YALSA? Do you know teens who like to write about books, music, movies, etc. and would be a perfect candidate for a position as a YALSA blogger? Are you a teen that would like to write for the YALSA blog? If so, now is your chance.
At their meeting on Monday, January 14, the YALSA Board of Directors voted to include teens in the YALSA cadre of bloggers.
What do this mean? Well, first a teen that is interested in blogging for YALSA needs to fill out and submit a teen blogger application. The application will be reviewed and teen applicants will be notified of the decision.
Once a teen blogger is accepted, a blogging account will be setup for that teen and information on how to use YALSA’s blogging software will be provided.
This is a really exciting opportunity for teen writers. If you have any questions about being a teen blogger - or helping a teen in your community become a blogger - contact Linda Braun, the YALSA Blog Manager, at lbraun@leonline.com
January 16th, 2008
Anastasia Goodstein has an excellent post today over at Ypulse.com on yesterday’s news from MySpace. Of course we all want teens to be safe online, but she points out the opportunity MySpace missed. Check it out!
January 15th, 2008
The Verizon Tech Savvy Awards are being offered to libraries, schools, and community-based organizations. The deadline to apply is Jan. 11, 2008. This program is made possible by the National Center for Family Literacy. The Verizon Tech Savvy Awards honor programs that improve parents and children’s understanding and use of technology. According to the National Center for Family Literacy, this award is the first of its kind in the nation. The amount of the grant that will be awarded is $25,000. If you have any questions, contact the National Center for Family Literacy at (502) 584-1133.
For more information, visit
http://www.famlit.org/site/c.gtJWJdMQIsE/b.2180327.
January 3rd, 2008
