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New Directions for Library Service to Young Adults by Patrick Jones is my choice because it offers tangible details to offering innovative services to young adults and teens in the public library. I talks about bringing teens into a working partnership with their library and their community.

I have checked this book out and will be reading it over the next few weeks to hopefully gain a better understanding of the role I will be playing in the lives of children.

Competency 4: RSS feed

I have chosen to add the RSS feed from two sites/blogs: YALSA, http://yalsa.ala.org/blog, and http://teenlibrarian.co.uk. Each of these feeds offers information into youth activities and participation. I find these sources insightful as I prepare myself for a career in youth library services.

Learning to listen, or listening to learn?

The Seattle Public Library offers a the "Teen Readings & Library Events Podcasts" led by a Teen Center Advisors. This is great example of youth involvement in public library services and independent thought in young adults. It showcases their interest in reading and discussing issues from read works and applying those to the world as they see it. Each podcast in the series is designed by the Seattle Public Library's volunteer Teen Center Advisors.

Use the following link to access the audio file:
http://www.spl.org/Audio/Teens/TCAPodcastDystopia.mp3

This podcast was located using Google.

Know your audience

An excerpt from YALSA's 1/29/2009 blog, Dear Teens, It's okay to ask for things:

"I’ve noticed a particular phenomenon among teens that I don’t see as much in children or adults. Actually, it’s two things.
1. Often, when I see a teen searching for a book on the shelves, and I approach her and ask if I can help her find what she’s looking for, she says no–even though it’s pretty obvious that she’s having trouble locating the title she wants.2. When a teen asks if I have a particular book and we don’t own it, I always offer to buy it for him. Many times, he will decline. The same goes for offering to put an item on hold–he will say “no, it’s no big deal, don’t worry about it” very politely, but very definitively.
Why does this happen? And what can we do about it?"

YALSA, Young Adults Library Services Association, is an organization that reaches across the wide-ranging topics that involve young adults and library services. This association holds a wealth of information for students, like myself, who are new to the field.

I searched GoogleBlog, http://blogsearch.google.com/, to find blogs related to my areas of interest, and I chose this one because it's a great reminder of how we need to recognize that different teens have different personality types and most teens are different than adults. It seemed a wonderful starting point when attempting to cater to the needs of others; I must know my audience in order to reach them.

To reach this YALSA blog, go to: http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2009/01/29/dear-teens-its-okay-to-ask-for-things/#more-2169