Archive for the 'teens' Category
PLCMC celebrates YALSA’s Teen Tech Week 2008
March 25th, 2008a photoset on Flickr
History Survey Stumps U.S. Teens
February 26th, 2008New York Times - “Fewer than half of American teenagers who were asked basic questions about history and literature during a recent telephone survey knew when the Civil War was fought, and one-quarter thought that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World sometime after 1750, not in 1492.”
YA Peeps
December 26th, 2007Village Voice - “Meet the East Village “It” Couple of Young-Adult Lit”
Luring Teens
December 26th, 2007Blake Carver thinks the word makes libraries sound “creepy”. Heh
Can’t Please Everyone
December 24th, 2007Régine Labossière - Older Youths Squeezed As Library Adjusts Teen Night
But Should We Cater To Them?
October 22nd, 2007G - “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what the On Demand culture of the Internet has done to your kids. Can’t even walk twenty feet to the next room, anymore. Heaven forbid they ever have to do anything useful”
Teen Health Database
August 20th, 2007PRnewswire - “Rosen Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of its Teen Health & Wellness electronic resource at two of the leading U.S. urban public libraries — The New York Public Library and Phoenix Public Library. Teen Health & Wellness is Rosen’s first online database, and has been garnering outstanding reviews and awards since [...]
Teens, Libraries and Web 2.0
August 17th, 2007Pew - “This presentation examines technology use by young patrons and suggests how the behavior and expectations of young internet users might shape the libraries of the future. Special attention is paid to the way teenagers have embraced social media tools, and the rate of adult adoption of various iconic “Web 2.0″ applications is also [...]