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YA Strike Zone October 2014
YA Strike Zone Toward a YA Key Performance Indicator and Making Our Own Strike Zone Anthony Bernier [Editor's Note: YA Strike Zone, previously in our print and digital magazine, is now an evoya...
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YA Strike Zone December 2014
The Not-So-Great YA Space Debate Anthony Bernier I was ashamed to bring my friends home when I was a teenager. I just didn’t want them seeing our house–a tiny one-bedroom duplex for three children and...
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YA Strike Zone became an evoya feature October 2014. Anthony Bernier teaches at San Jose State’s School of Library and Information Science where he concentrates on research and teaching on the...
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YA Strike Zone February 2015
Reflections on Dr. Mary K. Chelton’s Retirement Anthony Bernier “Oh, they have nothing to say.” School Library Journal, April 1976 These six words echo down through the decades since VOYA’s co-founder,...
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YA Strike Zone April 2015
Beneath the Carnegie Library Wheel Anthony Bernier My mom, my two younger sisters, and I lived just off Santa Monica Boulevard, six blocks east of the Cahuenga Branch of the Los Angeles Public library...
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YA Strike Zone June 2015
Reimagining the YA Volunteer Anthony Bernier During his inaugural address in January of 1961, the just-elected John F. Kennedy called a new generation of Americans to public service, issuing some of...
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YA Strike Zone August 2015
The Emerging Youth Suffrage Movement! Implications for libraries when young people vote in local affairs Anthony Bernier One of the oldest justifications for libraries serving young adults has a new...
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YA Strike Zone October 2015
The Future’s Not Ours to See Anthony Bernier Que sera, sera Whatever will be, will be The future’s not ours to see Que sera, sera I remember being terrified, as a boy, listening to Doris Day sing...
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YA Strike Zone December 2015
The Weeding Wars: More Battles of YA Services under another Name Anthony Bernier “She made a second YA collection!” “What?” Burgeoning “weeding wars” pit not only library user against the library but...
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YA Strike Zone February 2016
The Global Pulse: International Influences on YA Practice Anthony Bernier I come not to praise the superiority we feel about library service in the United States, but to bury it. This issue of VOYA...
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YA Strike Zone April 2016
The Coming of the Post-Teen “Young Adult” Anthony Bernier I’m finally hoisting the white flag of surrender – to children’s librarians. I think it’s time for YA librarians to concede the Battle of the...
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YA Strike Zone June 2016
“Maker Space” Cabal: The Challenges and Obstacles to Our Latest Overextension Anthony Bernier Before libraries get too comfortable with the latest flash-in-the-pan and devote precious resources,...
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YA Strike Zone August 2016
Born or Made Anthony Bernier Pop quiz: Which statement is more true: Successful YA librarians are more born or more made? Hint: this question asks for acknowledgment of a priority. Some say, “Of...
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YA Strike Zone October 2016
Flaming Youth has Become a Flaming Question Anthony Bernier In the spring of 1936, in the jaws of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the Young Democratic Club of Baltimore,...
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YA Strike Zone December 2016
YALSA’s Cynical Heart: Reproducing the Adultist Agenda Anthony Bernier American Library Association’s (ALA) recent dog-piling on young people for their incapacity to discern “fake news” got me...
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YA Strike Zone February 2017
Reviving “Rubin” Anthony Bernier At a time when many make self-satisfied gestures at the notion of “alternative facts” that it looks like we’ll be living with for the next four years, I’d like to point...
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YA Strike Zone April 2017
No Safe Space Haven in a Public World Anthony Bernier Few clichés promise to do more damage to libraries than claiming to be “safe spaces.” Libraries are not safe spaces. At the very least, such a...
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YA Strike Zone June 2017
YA Activism: Thunder from the Left (and the Right) Anthony Bernier What is it going to take? How much more time must pass before libraries realize that young adults don’t need any “youth development”...
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YA Strike Zone August 2017
Beyond the Celebrations The disturbing things LIS students find out about real YA programming and professionals’ ethical obligation to improve YA experience Anthony Bernier It becomes more difficult...
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YA Strike Zone October 2017
“Members” Now: Citizens Later? Anthony Bernier America does not appear in the mood to broaden its notion of “citizenship” for the next while. This fight doesn’t end here, of course, but the current...
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