This episode concludes our coverage of YALSA’s 2012 elections. The following podcast contains interviews with of the two candidates for YALSA President.

Mary Hastler

Shannon Peterson 

This episode continues coverage of YALSA’s 2012 elections. The interviews with the two candidates for the Board of Directors 

Vicki Emery

Steve Matthews

This episode contines the podcast’s coverage of YALSA’s 2012 elections.  The following podcasts are interviews with the four candidates for the Board of Directors.

Candice Mack 

Matthew Moffett

Sarah Sogigan

Priscille Dando 

If you prefer, you may download the podcast at the YALSA Podcast site and transfer the file to the mp3 player of your choice.

In these interviews you'll hear from Shannon Peterson and Mary Hastler the candidates for President-Elect/President.

In this interview meet the four candidates running for YALSA Board of Directors in 2012:

• Priscille Dando
• Sarah Soggigian
• Matthew Moffett
• Candice Mack

In these interviews meet Viki Emery and Steve Matthews both running on the 2012 YALSA slate for Councilor.

This episode's guest is Erin Knight, Learning Director for the Mozilla Foundation. Erin walks us through all the ins and outs of the new education initiative "Badges for Lifelong Learning", a developing system that will enable users to highlight and gain recognition for specialized learning and achievements outside the the standard classroom or workplace.

Ted Anderson from YALSA's teen literature blog The Hub returns with an in-depth conversation with Joni Bodart, author of the new non-fiction title They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction.

For this episode we are happy to bring back Jesse Karp, author of the new non-fiction book Graphic Novels in Your School Library.

For this episode we sit down with Megan Honig, editor-in-chief for YALS, YALSA's own quaterly journal. Megan tells us about some of the highlights of the November, 2011 issue as well as the brand new online component that will enhance the content of the print version of YALS.