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August 3, 2007
Question: When is a YA Librarian Like an iPhone?
Answer: when she's as hip and cool as our new Young Adult Librarian, Irene Winkler! Not only is she cool, but she's intelligent, curious, interesting, eager to learn, tech savvy and hilariously funny. If you don't know her, please come in and introduce yourself and your teens. Congratulations to Irene and the community of Roslyn on this fantastic new partnership!
What does a Young Adult Librarian do anyway? There are several elements to this position: the books (ordering, weeding and reading), the teens themselves (assignment and book selection help and programming), and outreach to the community (developing a relationship with the school librarians and teachers, parents, etc.) These tasks are all interactive, involve social networking and communication. Now, consider the iPhone... A YA Librarian has to be up on popular culture - the latest books, music, movies, tv, and webtrends. The iPhone is the ultimate in pop culture. A YA Librarian's ultimate goal is to reach out and bring and keep teens into the library by being so dynamic that they wouldn't consider going anywhere else for their information and entertainment needs. Have you ever seen someone who owns an iPhone leave home without one? I rest my case. Although I must admit, I think that Irene will be around way longer than the iPhone!!
The best news of all is that while Susan Owens is retiring, she will still be at Bryant part-time as Young Adult Librarian Emeritus. So, while many libraries have only one YA Librarian, we have Suzi, Irene, Michele (me) and Beth, who have all specialized in teen services. Yea, Roslyn!
Posted by Michele at August 3, 2007 11:10 AM
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Thanks, Michele! I am very lucky to be here at The Bryant Library working with all the great people here, and I'm so proud to become a YA librarian. (Hmm....it sounds like I might need to get an iPhone now....are they on the discount shelves yet?) Thanks for all your kind, welcoming words!
Posted by: Irene at August 4, 2007 6:46 AM