YA Lib Resources

Title	Author	ISBN
Bare Bones Young Adult Services : Tips for Public Library Generalists	Renee J. Vaillancourt	0838934978
Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: a How-To-Do-It Manual	Patrick Jones	1555703151
A Core Collection for Young Adults	Patrick Jones, Patricia Taylor, & Kirsten Edwards	1555704581
Do it Right! Best Practices for Serving Young Adults in School and Public Libraries	Patrick Jones & Joel Shoemaker	1555703941
The Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts : The Library and the Young Adult	Margaret A. Edwards	0838906354
Sizzling Summer Reading Programs for Young Adults	Katharine Kan	0838934803
Teen Spaces: The Step-By-Step Library Makeover	Kimberly Bolan Taney	0838908322
Young Adults and Public Libraries	Mary Anne Nichols & C. Allen Nichols	0313300038
The Basic Young Adult Services Handbook: A Programming and Training Manual	NYLA YSS	0931658446

ALA/TAGS www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/tags/tags.htm	Resources to help you create, maintain & expand your TAG.
ATN Book Lists nancykeane.com/rl/default.htm	Categorized reading lists for K-12 students.
Book reviews by Adam Balutis www.euronet.nl/users/jubo/balutis.html	What's better than a teen that actually reviews books?
Booklists for young adults on the web www.seemore.mi.org/booklists/	Gleaned from the YALSA-BK and PUBYAC listservs.
Connecting Young Adults and Libraries www.connectingya.com	Patrick Jones is the YA librarian guru.
Favorite Teenage Angst Books www.grouchy.com/angst/	Great books to read!
NYLA YSS www.nyla.org/yss	Specific to NY Youth Service Librarians, but it also touches on YA issues.
Picture This, Imagine That www.summerreadingnys.org/	Plan your summer reading program!
Reading Rants! www.readingrants.org	Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists.
Rob Thomas (the author) www.robthomasproductions.com/	Just because he's so cool.
See Me 4 Books seeme4books.com	A Place for Young Adults to say what's hot and what's not.
See YA Around www.cplrmh.com/	A great site for program ideas.
Teen Librarian www.teenlibrarian.com	An Online community for Young Adult Librarians.
Teen Series www.bettendorflibrary.com/teen/series.htm	Can't keep track of those pesky YA series books? Use this site to find out what's next.
Vandergrift's Young Adult Literature Page www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/YoungAdult/index.html	Everything you always wanted to know about ya lit but were afraid to ask.
Virtual YA yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/virtual.html	Compare your YA site to others on this huge list of libraries with YA websites.
VOYA www.voya.com	Reviews of YA lit, articles about YA librarianship and lots of nifty other stuff. If you don't subscribe to VOYA, you should.
YALSA www.ala.org/yalsa/	The organization devoted to YA librarianship.
Young Adult Librarian's Help/Homepage yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/	The first place to go when looking for YA related materials. Now maintained by Tracey Firestone!
Young Adult Professional's Page yapp.us	YAPP is a collection of Internet resources for librarians who serve young adults.

Resources for

Teen/YA Librarians