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Library 2.0?

It turns out that last week was Teen Tech Week—a national initiative sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association. The initiative aims to ensure that teens are not only competent, but also ethical users of library technologies, such as DVDs, databases, audiobooks, and videogames. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to use their libraries' nonprint resources for education and recreation and to recognize their librarians as the skilled, trusted IT professionals that they are. BoardBuzz loves our own resident librarians. Libraries across the country hosted special events, sessions, and contests which included:

• Amazing Race: Library Edition
• Teen Music Night
• Online Chess
• Rule RuneScape
• Teen Computer Tutors!
• Pimp Your iPod
• Online Audiobook Discussion
• Yo-yo-ology
• This is Jeopardy

Even though Tech Week is over, it never really ends. How can you keep the momentum going? YALSA has these suggestions:

• Have your teens tell us about how they use technology in YALSA's Teen Technology Survey. Survey closes March 31.
• Bookmark our Tech Guides to use in programming at your library! Our guides cover making music with teens, online surveys, virtual worlds, RSS, blogs & wikis, gaming, podcasts and a sponsored guide on using Dungeons & Dragons Interactive @ your library! All Tech Guides are PDF files for easy download. 
• Tell us how your celebration went at the Teen Tech Week Wiki!

BoardBuzz would also like to give a shout out to the Young Adult Library Services Association blog.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).