Nebraska Librarians Invited to Participate in 2014 Teen Tech Week

The time has come to DIY @ your library! Registration for Teen Tech Week™, the Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) annual celebration of digital literacy and technology via the library, is now open at www.ala.org/teentechweek. Teen Tech Week™ is March 9-15, 2014, with a theme of DIY @ your library, and is a chance to demonstrate the value your library gives to the community.  Use the week to raise awareness about how your library creates a space to extend teens’ learning beyond the classroom where they can explore, create and share content. From maker spaces, to coding classes to online knitting clubs, libraries can leverage the do-it-yourself theme to show how libraries provide meaningful contributions to the educational and social development of the teens in your community. “Teen Tech Week is a great opportunity for libraries to showcase all of the great digital resources and services that are available to teens and their families,” said YALSA President Shannon Peterson. “Signing up for the site helps demonstrate that libraries around the country consider technology an important part of teen lives and an important part of the programs and services offered by libraries.” For more information and to join, please visit the Teen Tech Week website. Help get the word out about this event with the hashtag #TTW14. Check out the new ALA Graphics Winter 2013 catalog featuring YALSA’s Teen Tech Week theme — DIY @ your library® on the cover. Emphasize your participation with the new poster and bookmark to show that libraries can connect in meaningful ways with the teens in your community. Visit the ALA Store online to purchase your TTW products today. Teen Tech Week is a national initiative sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association and is aimed at teens, their parents, educators and other concerned adults. The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens gain the digital literacy skills they need—with the help of libraries—in order to be successful in school and prepared to participate in a 21st century workforce. For more information see http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2013/11/yalsa-announces-2014-teen-tech-week. Below  are some titles from the Nebraska Library Commission Collection that may help with Teen Tech Week. As always, please contact the Information Services Team if you’d like to check out any of these titles: The Handheld Library:  Mobile Technology and the Librarian, edited by Thomas A. Peters and Lori Bell, Z680.5 .H36 2013 The Information Behavior of a New Generation:  Children and Teens in the 21st Century, edited by Jamshid Beheshti and Andrew Large, ZA3075 .I5325 2013 Semantic Web Technologies and Social Searching for Librarians, by Robin M. Fay, Michael P. Sauers, ZA4240 .F39 2012 Teens, Libraries, and Social Networking, What Librarians Need to Know, edited by Denise E. Agosto and June Abbas, Z718.5 .T446 2011 UContent:  the Information Professional’s Guide to User-Generated Content, by Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, ZA4482 .T66 2012