Suggest a Title for YALSA’s Awards and Booklists! YALSA’s booklists and awards are taking your suggestions for next year’s awards and lists! Almost anyone (authors and publishers cannot nominate their own titles) can suggest a title for the 2013 lists. Be sure to bookmark the new URLs, as our forms have moved to the YALSA website. Don’t be… Read More NOMINATE FOR MAJOR AWARDS NOW!!!
The YALSA Midwinter Paper Presentation is an annual event sponsored by past presidents of YALSA. Its purpose is to provide a venue for educators, librarians, students, and others interested in young adult librarianship to gather and explore a topic of current interest that impacts the field. The YALSA Midwinter Paper Committee will select one paper to be delivered at… Read More YALSA Midwinter Paper Presentation
First, I’m so excited to tell you that Julie Kagawa’s Immortal Rules trilogy (yes! the entire trilogy!) has been purchased by Palomar Pictures. Her response to the news? Julie Kagawa @Jkagawa Guys, if you could see me…my feet are about 6 inches off the ground. Thank you all. #Giddy#theimmortalrulesmovie 🙂 Congratulations! The State Farm… Read More Cured and Gathered
This from YALSA’s Books for Teens: Christmas has come and gone and Hannukah is on its last of eight nights. But maybe you have it in you to give one more gift this year. How about giving a teen in an under-resourced community the gift of reading by making a donation to YALSA’s Books for Teens? Your year-end gift to… Read More Books for Teens
The Young Adult Library Services Association launched the inaugural issue of its open-access, peer-reviewed electronic research journal, the Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults athttp://yalsa.ala.org/jrlya. The journal will be published quarterly beginning in November 2010, with issues following in February, May and August. The first issue highlights paper presentations from YALSA’s Young Adult Literature… Read More New YALSA Journal
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