http://yalsa.libsyn.com The Official Podcast of the Young Adult Library Services Association en 2009 yalsa@ala.org (YALSA) Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:39:00 GMT 180 Podcast of the Young Adult Library Services Association YALSA, teens, libaries, librarians, YALSA yalsa@ala.org YALSA http://libsyn.com/podcasts/yalsa/images/yalsapodcast_logo.jpg http://yalsa.libsyn.com Clean http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=548977#
In addition to the Baker & Taylor grants, YALSA gives more than $40,000 in grants and awards to its members each year. Learn more and apply by Dec. 1 at www.ala.org/yalsa/awards&grants.
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As a new high school librarian

In library school

As an active participant in online social networks

mk also gives some advice to library school students who are getting ready to enter the library work world. Along with reading mk's posts on the YALSA blog you can follow her on Twitter at @mkeagle and read her posts on her personal blog and on the Examiner.com.]]> podcasts Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:16:00 GMT http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=532888# YALSA No http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=517574#
See the full nomination list online at http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/bbya. Thanks to YALSA intern Thiru Selvanagayam for creating this podcast.
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Listen in to find out more about her experience. Want to register for the 2009-2010 WrestleMania Reading Challenge? Sign up through Teen Read Week registration by this Friday and you could relive the experience Jill describes in this podcast.
]]> podcasts Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:59:00 GMT http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=509369# 00:02:15 wrestlemania reading challenge, wwe, jill whitson YALSA No http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=507827# Lizzie Skurnick author of the just released Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics we Never Stopped Reading. Lizzie is the author of the blog Old Hag and is a columnist for Jezebel. Listen The podcast discussion covers:

• Shelf Discovery
• The range of human experience covered in many teen novels.
• How teens read and what they get out of reading realistic fiction
• Books including Secret Lives by Bertha Amos, Jacob Have I Loved, Phyllis Reynold Naylor's Alice series, and The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
• Reasons why novels for girls and women do not receive the respect they deserve and boy vs. girl readership of teen fiction.
• Skurnick's career & the readership of her Jezebel columns
• The future of print reviewing and the changing world of reading in electronic and print formats.

]]> podcasts Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:05:00 GMT http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=507827# YALSA No http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=499028# Popular Reads for Teens, and the history of some YALSA book lists. The book compiles information from Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers along with annotations and program ideas.]]> podcasts Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:11:00 GMT http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=499028# 00:12:27 YALSA No http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=486716# Margo Rabb author of Cures for Heartbreak and The Missing Persons series. The conversation includes discussion of:

• Rabbâs New York Times essay, I'm Y.A. and I'm O.K. on the cross-over in books between teen and adult.
• Short stories for teens and novels written in short story format.
• The challenges of writing fiction and writing autobiographical fiction.
• The definition and re-definition of young adult literature.
• Literary novels for young adults.
• Adult and teen cross-shelving of materials in bookstores and libraries.

]]> podcasts Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:30:00 GMT http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=486716# YALSA No http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=483320# National Library Legislative Day. Listen or subscribe to YALSA's podcast feed. (Note: YALSA has a new podcast feed. You will want to update your podcast subscription in order to know when a new YALSA Podcast is available.) In the audio Sarah talks about her experiences along with:

• Talking with legislative staffers about LSTA funding
• YALSA representatives visits to the Pew Internet in American Life Project, IMLS, and the Internet Education Foundation
• Ways for teen librarians to keep up with important legislative issues and get involved.

To find out more about Sarah's Library Legislative Day experiences read her blog post from earlier this month.]]> podcasts Sun, 24 May 2009 14:38:00 GMT http://yalsa.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=483320# YALSA No