http://www.yalit.com/blog A Beginner's Guide for Young Adult Librarians (and other YA Lit fans) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:26:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I'm sure you've noticed.  Please update your links to http://www.kerilynnadams.com.  I'm actually keeping that one updated. http://www.yalit.com/blog/2008/07/16/so-i-dont-really-use-this-blog-anymore/ From Zap2it: Michael Cera and Kat Dennings will star in "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," a badly titled romantic drama from Mandate Films. http://www.yalit.com/blog/2007/10/09/oooh-my-first-scoop/ A web design workshop is one of the most valuable programs you can offer teens at your library. Most teens spend a lot of time on the internet and as the proliferation of social networking sites shows, they are interested in having their own little corner of the universe. Whether ... http://www.yalit.com/blog/2007/09/10/web-design-workshops/ I am not a crafty person. I took up scrapbooking one summer but gave up because the pages I created never looked anywhere near as good as the magazines. One of the women who works in our children's room is amazing with crafts. She can come up with a craft ... http://www.yalit.com/blog/2007/09/10/summer-reading-crafts/ Singing Originally uploaded by Kerers As our opening event of the summer reading program, we hosted Draco and the Malfoys (with special guest Justin Finch-Fletchly and the Sugar Quills). I would highly recommend having a wizard rock concert at your library. It is a fairly easy program to put on and attracts ... http://www.yalit.com/blog/2007/07/25/summer-reading-event-draco-and-the-malfoys/ My registration numbers are a little off from last year, particularly for advanced registration.  I suspect that there are several reasons for that. 1. School Visits - I was only able to visit 3 of the 7 possible schools to do summer reading promotion.  At the end of the school year, ... http://www.yalit.com/blog/2007/07/17/summer-reading-registration/ It's summer reading time at my library which means I have tons of things to say on this blog but get home from work so drained that doing anything more intensive than Sudoku is a challenge. My library is one of the many libraries with a very time intensive summer reading ... http://www.yalit.com/blog/2007/07/17/designing-a-summer-reading-program/ As you can tell from the title of this blog, I am a huge Sweet Valley fan. I started reading them in 2nd grade and stopped in college only because they stopped publishing them (which upset me not only as a reader, but . I'd love to go ... http://www.yalit.com/blog/2007/07/01/sweet-valley-snark/ 2006 was the first year that I tracked my reading and I wish that I had started much earlier. I kept a simple spreadsheet on Tracks Life and put a link to it on my Firefox toolbar at work and at home so I'd be sure to update it. ... http://www.yalit.com/blog/2007/01/01/2006-reading-round-up/ Welcome to Beyond the Wakefields!  This blog will focus on things that new Young Adult Librarians should know from basics such as managing list serv messages to programming for teens to required reading.  I'm a huge YA literature fan and an internet geek so there will be plenty of posts ... http://www.yalit.com/blog/2006/12/17/welcome/