Archive for the 'teens' Category
Social Media and Young Adults
February 4th, 2010Pew – “Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. Even as blogging declines among those under 30, wireless connectivity continues to rise in this age group, as does social network use. Teens ages 12-17 [...]
Trouble touches an urban oasis
January 30th, 2010Boston Globe – “Struggling to keep peace at new Mattapan library”
More at FARK
Teens take over library, olds gasp
October 13th, 2009SF Bay Guardian – “Friday night at the library! Sure, when I was 17 you couldn’t have gotten me there with a sharp stick and an unmarked van, but back then I was doing more meaningful things like chugging Mike’s Hard Lemonade and straightening my hair.”
City library shouldn’t have banned teens
June 2nd, 2009Sudbury Star – “The library justified its actions by stating there were youth in the library causing frequent disruption and, sometimes, even engaging in criminal activity (for example, a staff member's vehicle was broken into). In general, the library claimed that the youth were using the Mackenzie Street branch as a hangout during school hours [...]
What do people do when their technology breaks down?
November 25th, 2008LibrarianInBlack – “See? This is why technology training in your libraries is important.”
Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
November 20th, 2008NYTimes – “Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation.”
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, 2007R̩gine Labossi̬re РOlder 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 [...]
