YA geared professional journals

Title: Young Adult Library Services online 2004-2009 (available through UWO portal)

This journal, published quarterly, provides young adult librarians, or librarians in general with some of the latest news in the area, looking at both librarian oriented news, such as YALSA, and book news such as issues with censorship and the freedom that now occurs, dealing with YA reference questions which may differ from the questions asked from adults or young children, as well as looking at some of the latest movies out for YA’s, other cultural news, magna and graphic novels as well as social issues such as bullying.

The journal tries to cover all needs of librarians, giving them the knowledge in the profession that they need, as well as YA culture news as this is very important to librarians dealing with the age group. It is important for them to stay on top of new immerging trends in books, movies, games and the internet. Although it is not an issue that la librarian would like to see, having articles about bullying are useful for librarians to possibly notice the signs, and in some cases may be able to steer teens towards materials or people that can help them.

With the wide rage of material that this journal covers, it would be very useful for public librarians as well as school librarians to subscribe to, as well as being useful to librarian students interested in YA materials. The wide range of the journal displays how wide ranging the materials in the area are.