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And the winner is…..

Yesterday the winners of the 2012 ALA Youth Media awards were announced. These awards are nominated and decided upon by a variety of librarians. The winners and runner-ups, if the DeKalb Library System currently owns them, are listed below. If you are looking for something new to read, you might check them out. I know [...]

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Top 10 teen books of 2011

The Teen Advisory Board (TAB) for the Library has voted on their own top 10 list from the YALSA’s  Teens’ Top Ten  nominated top 2011 titles. The TAB’s top Teen books of 2011 are: I am J by Chris Beam J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his [...]

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Teen Tech Week!

March 7-13 is Teen Tech Week, a national initiative that focuses on promoting libraries’ nonprint resources to teens. This annual event is sponsored by YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association and this year they have chosen the theme Learn Create Share @ Your Library. This year’s aim is to remind teens and those that [...]

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