RESOURCES FOR YOUTH SERVICES LIBRARIANS

by Ann Hoey, Youth Services Consultant
N.H. State Library

Whether you work with children or teens in a public or school library setting, you will find some good new titles on youth library services at the N.H. State Library. These books can be requested by interlibrary loan. Here's a sampling of new titles:

500 BEST BOOKS FOR TEENS by Anita Silvey. Houghton Mifflin. 2006

AN AUTOMATION PRIMER FOR SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTERS AND SMALL LIBRARIES by Barbara Schultz-Jones. Linworth. 2006

THE BIG BOOK OF CHILDREN'S READING LISTS: 100 GREAT READY-TO-USE BOOK LISTS FOR EDUCATORS, LIBRARIANS, PARENTS, AND CHILDREN by Nancy Keane. Libraries Unlimited. 2006

BOOKS KIDS WILL SIT STILL FOR 3: A READ-ALOUD GUIDE by Judy Freeman. Libraries Unlimited. 2006

CATALOG IT! A GUIDE TO CATALOGING SCHOOL LIBRARY MATERIALS by Allison B. Kaplan & Ann Marlow Rieding. Linworth. 2006

FEE FI FO FUM: PUPPETS & OTHER FOLKTALE FUN by Linda Bair. Upstart. 2005

THE HEART HAS ITS REASONS: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE WITH GAY/LESBIAN/QUEER CONTENT, 1969-2004 by Michael Cart and Christine A. Jenkins. Scarecrow Press. 2006

HUMOR IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: A TIME TO LAUGH by Walter Hogan. Scarecrow. 2005

INFORMATION LITERACY AND THE SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER by Joie Taylor. Libraries Unlimited. 2006

LESS IS MORE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WEEDING SCHOOL LIBRARY COLLECTIONS by Donna J. Baumbach & Linda L. Miller. ALA. 2006

MIDDLE SCHOOL PATHFINDERS: GUIDING STUDENT RESEARCH by Nancy Keane. Linworth. 2006

THE TEEN-CENTERED BOOK CLUB: READERS INTO LEARNERS by Bonnie Kunzel and Constance Hardesty. Libraries Unlimited. 2006

THE WORLD OF ISLAM IN LITERATURE FOR YOUTH: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR K-12 by Rajinder Gracha and Patricia Yates Russell. Scarecrow Press. 2006

A YEAR OF PROGRAMS FOR TEENS by Amy J. Alessio & Kimberly A. Patton. ALA. 2006