Course Reflection LIS 566: Young Adult Materials: Evaluation and Use

While I see my future career to be centered on library services for Children, I have great respect for YA librarians, and the teens they work with. In fact I work 15 hours a week with teens in the Tualatin library. It was a great pleasure for me to take LIS 566: YA materials.

In this class we covered many different genres and types of YA materials, from traditional genres literature like sci-fi, fantasy, realistic fiction, and mysteries, we also covered graphic novels and manga, and lots and lots of online resources and websites to find both fiction and non-fiction for teens. We discussed the teenage brain, and what information needs teens today have, and the anonymity they feel they need to access that information. We discussed teen created materials and how they share them with each other and we even touched on programming for teens.
For my program I created a Read-In which is described here. This program was implemented by the Tualatin Library during the Summer Reading Program 2010.