Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Readers' Choice Task Force

To establish policies and  procedures for a new readers' choice list that includes technology and voting components and reflects the proposal in the Annual 09 Board  Document #15, and provide a first draft by ALA Midwinter 2010 for the YALSA Executive Committee to review.

YALSA Competencies Update Task Force (Young Adult Library Services Association)

To provide recommendations for each Annual Teen Read Week to the ALA/YALSA staff; to assist in the selection of a slogan, the drawing up of a timeline, the creation of new items added to the tip sheet and Teen Reading Website; and to recommend promotional activities and products.

To serve as a liaison between the ALA Legislation Committee and YALSA and with other ALA youth groups and units interested in serving this age range, to inform and instruct librarians working with young adults of pending legislation, particularly that which affects young adults, to encourage the art of lobbying....

To facilitate the exchange of information and galleys of books published within the current and previous publishing years among the voting teen group members as well as the nonvoting members; to annually prepare the “Teens Top 10” list for Teen Read Week; and to coordinate the public electronic vote.

To provide a forum for the learning, discussion and promotion of TAGS as a critical part of library service to all teens. This includes library Teen Advisory Groups and all other forms of teens as advisors in libraries. To promote and maintain a YALSA TAGS online presence, including but not limited to blog postings and website and wiki content.

To establish guidelines and/or procedures to involve young adults in the decision-making process which directly affects their access to information and library service at local, state, and national levels; to provide continuing education and public professional awareness of youth participation.

To explore, recommend, initiate, and implement ways of working with other organizations that work for youth.

To develop and pursue an aggressive and continuous campaign to recruit and retain members for the Young Adults Library Services Association, to promote the Association to our professional colleagues and to key partners as defined in the YALSA Strategic Plan.

To prepare annually one to five annotated list(s) of approximately twenty-five recommended paperback titles selected from popular reading/genre themes or topics of current interest to teens.