Ready for Teen Tech Week? Teen Tech Week starts this Sunday! Tell us what you have planned at your library at the YALSA Wiki. Looking for last-minute inspiration or publicity tools? Visit the Teen Tech Week website. Have your teens help chose next year’s theme by taking the Teen Tech Week Survey.
Early Bird Ends Today! Today is the last day to get the Early Bird rate for Annual 2010 in Washington, D.C. Registration is also open for YALSA’s preconferences (and remember, you don’t need to register for Annual to attend either preconference). Learn more about our preconferences (there’s info after the jump, too) and see what YALSA has planned for DC at http://tinyurl.com/yalsaac10.’ Remember, you don’t need to register for Annual to attend either of YALSA’s preconferences.
Process Volunteer Forms Due March 12 YALSA will begin appointing process committee, jury, task force, and advisory board members this spring! Be sure to fill out your Committee Volunteer Form by March 12 so that Kim Patton, YALSA’s president-elect, will know you’re interested. (Read Kim Patton’s post on the process to find out more about serving on YALSA’s committees).
After the jump, find out more about YALSA’s preconferences before ALA Annual, how to register for YALSA’s first webinar (it’s free!), and what’s on tap for the 2010 YA Literature Symposium
Join YALSA for Annual Preconferences: YALSA will offer two preconferences before the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.’ (Early bird registration ends today) If you have already registered and would like to add a preconference or special event, you have two options: (1) By phone: Call ALA Registration at 1-800-974-3084 and ask to add a workshop to your existing registration.; (2) Online: Add an event to your existing registration by clicking on this link. Use your log in and password to access your existing Annual registration and add events in the “Your Events†section (screen 6). Then simply check out and pay for the events you’ve added.
YALSA’ has plenty planned, in addition to preconferences. See everything we have planned at the YALSA Annual Conference Wiki.
It’s Perfectly Normal: Dealing with “Sensitive†Topics in Teen Services is a full-day workshop on’ Friday, June 24 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Have you ever found yourself worrying about how best to address critical but sensitive adolescent topics through your teen services and collection? Topics like sexuality, abuse, privacy and others can be difficult for librarians to address with teens &/or their parents and caregivers. Hear from experts in the field of adolescent development, along with authors and librarians, about how they have managed to successfully maneuver this difficult landscape. Explore strategies for collection development, services and programming relating to these sensitive issues. Tickets cost $195 for YALSA members; ALA Members: $235; Non-Members: $285; Student/Retired Members: $195.
Promoting Teen Reading with Web 2.0 Tools (Ticketed Event-$99) Friday, June 24, 12:30-4:30. The participatory web has transformed adolescent literacy, as young people create and consume a new range of online content. Are you ready for it? Learn how libraries can use free web 2.0 tools to connect teens with reading and writing opportunities within and beyond your library collection. Librarians, reporters, and academics will explore teens’ daily use of technology and the interaction of digital and print reading channels, including fan fiction and gaming. YA authors will discuss leveraging readership through social networking channels.
Sign Up for YALSA’s First Webinar (it’s free!) Join YALSA President Linda W. Braun on March 31 as she leads YALSA’s first webinar, Getting Involved in YALSA. Interested in writing for the YALSA blog, or want to start up an interest group? Join Linda as she discusses the various ways to participate in YALSA, and how doing so can help your daily work and career development. This initiatl webinar on March 31 at 2 p.m. will be free. Want to register? Contact Eve Gaus, YALSA program officer for continuing education, at egaus@ala.org or 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5293.’ Future webinars will cost $39 for YALSA members and $50 for nonmembers (group rates available too.)
Save the Date for the YA Lit Symposium YALSA’s 2010 YA Lit Symposium will be Nov. 5-7 in Albuquerque, N.M. Visit the 2010 Symposium website to see the program slate, find out how to book housing, and take a look at registration rates. Registration will open in April. Questions? Contact YALSA program officer for conferences and events, Nichole Gilbert, at ngilbert@ala.org or 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4387.
