Teen Booklists

In my first few weeks as a public services assistant in the Teen Room I started making a book list for banned and challenged books, as banned books week was just a few weeks away. Aimee really liked it and asked that I crate more book lists. As this was a brand new teen room in a brand new library they didn't have any book lists for the teens to review. Using the BCL teen book lists as a model I created several book list that staff and patrons use every day. Aimee, the teen librarian encouraged and helps me keep them up to date, and Cherie, another ischool grad proof reads them and ensures they are formatted correctly. Here is a link to the Tualatin Library Teen book list page for the examples of the book lists I have made. Making book lists helps me really get to know the collection, as well as gives the the opportunity to read many reviews and understand how books are chosen for the collection, and how they are chosen to be highlighted on a book list, this has definitely been a great help as I build skills in both collection development and readers advisory.