Interested in participating in the project next year? Fifteen libraries are chosen to receive free galleys of recent publications from 30+ publishers and the teen readers of those libraries help nominate books for the voting list. You can contact Nichole Gilbert to find out more about the participants and how you might become a nomination library.
Why is the Teen Top Ten important? It's always important knowing what your patrons want to read and how we can get those books for them. The Teen Top Ten allows that information to be gathered on a national level to help inform librarians about current trends that might not have reached their area yet, and this type of data helps us to understand our patrons better. There are infinite possibilities for the use of information, so get out there and vote!
Sources:
http://www.ala.org/news/pr?id=11224
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/yagalley
Thanks for the link---I am looking forward to seeing what makes the top ten and sharing that info with my students.
ReplyDeleteCompletely missed the YALSA top 10! Thanks so much mentioning it. It really is a great idea to connect with teen readers and see what the true YA audience likes to read.
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This is terrific. We will talk about award books a bit, but one of the things that seems to be a constant struggle is figuring out how much reader opinion should count, and how to include audience as a true element. In the case of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, the answer was that we didn't really count them at all when deciding on the Blue Ribbons awards. That troubled me, though I could also see that a bunch of middle-aged white women guessing at audience response was likely equally problematic. It did mean a lot of older books made the list, though. Anyway, this is a lovely blog. It is attractive and accessible, and I look forward to checking in throughout the semester.
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