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YALSA items that may be of interest:

Connect with Youth-Focused Leaders in your State

We’ve recently added new contacts to our list of state-level youth service providers on our wiki: http://ow.ly/QcxNP.  Find out about your state’s College Access Network, access state-by-state reports on college and career readiness and more!  Leverage these contacts to amplify the services you provide for and with the teens in your state.

It’s Not too Late to Plan a Great Teen Read Week™!

We have everything libraries need to plan great TRW activities at www.ala.org/teenread.  We’re encouraging libraries to reach out and engage teens who don’t normally come to the library, whether they’re homeless, in foster care, recent immigrants or some other segment of the community.  Reaching some of these groups can be a challenge, but YALSA has resources to help on our wiki: http://ow.ly/QcA3p

Show what You Know!

YALSA’s Badges for Librarians are sort of like those old Girl Scout badges—except ours are digital and they show what skills library staff have mastered in relation to serving teens.  Help get the word out about this free continuing education resource and learn more at http://yalsabadges.ala.org/  

An Easy Way to Wrap up Summer Reading/Learning

The 2015 Teens’ Top Ten nominated titles have been posted online since April.  Beginning Aug. 15^th and running through Teen Read Week™, please help YALSA by encouraging the teens in your state to go online and vote for their favorite books at www.ala.org/yalsa/reads4teens.  Bookmark the page on your web site and join the discussion on Twitter with #ttt15.

Core Professional Values for Library Staff Serving Teens

This new document from YALSA includes nine core values that define professionalism for those who work for and with teens through libraries. Additionally, this document provides examples of sample indicators for practices that resonate with each value.  View them online:

www.ala.org/yalsa/core-professional-values-teen-services-profession   

Are You in our State Directory?

Please help us keep state contact information up to date so we can stay in touch!  Anyone can edit or add content to this wiki page by creating a (free) account.  http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/State_Level_YA_Services_Contacts

Planning a State Conference?

If you’d like YALSA to present a program, staff an exhibit booth or co-host a social event, please get in touch with our Member Relations Guru, Letitia Smith, at ...@ala.org">lsm...@ala.org or 312.280.4390.  We’d love to come hang out with you!  To see what states are already on our list to visit, check out http://ow.ly/popSJ

Upcoming YALSA Activities & Events  

·         Aug. 15 voting opens for the Teens’ Top Ten, www.ala.org/yalsa/reads4teens

·         Aug. 20, webinar on outreach to teens, www.ala.org/yalsa/webinars

·         Sept. 1, call for 2016 YA Services Symposium program & paper proposals opens

·         Sept. 15, early bird registration ends for the YA Services Symposium, www.ala.org/yalsa/yasymposium

·         Sept. 17, webinar on college readiness programming, www.ala.org/yalsa/webinars

·         Oct. 15, webinar on adolescent development, www.ala.org/yalsa/webinars

·         Oct. 18 – 24, Teen Read Week, www.ala.org/teenread  

·         Week of Oct. 26, Teens’ Top Ten winners announced, www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten

·         Nov. 1, deadline to apply for literacies grant via this online form

·         Nov. 6-8, YALSA Young Adult Services Symposium, www.ala.org/yalsa/yasymposium  

·         Dec. 1st, most of YALSA’s grants, awards, and scholarship applications due, www.ala.org/yalsa/awardsandgrants/yalsaawardsgrants

·         1^st week of Dec.: finalists announced for the Morris and Nonfiction awards, www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists

For more events and information, visit http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Calendar_of_Events

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Forwarded by:

Sharon Rawlins, MLS

Youth Services Specialist for Lifelong Learning

NJ State Library

185 West State St.

P.O. Box 520

Trenton, NJ 08625-0520

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609-278-2640 ext. 116 - phone

609-278-2650 - fax

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