Welcome to the Youth Services Section

Register for the YSS Spring Program
   A Morning with the Illustrators featuring Ruth Sanderson and Ralph Masiello

Read the YSS Blog!

MLA Standards for Public Library Service to Children in Massachusetts --Approved May 3rd!

MLA Standards for Public Library Service to Young Adults in Massachusetts (in PDF Format)

MLA Youth Services Section Executive Board

Books & Links - Topics to Expand Your Mind - Volume 1 is here!

MLA Standards for Public Library Service to Children in Massachusetts (1995)

MSLMA and YSS/MLA Joint Statements

     School/Public Library Services to Children
     A Common Purpose with Similarities and Differences
    (Adopted April 1994)

          Joint Statement on Collection Development in Schools and Public Libraries
          (Adopted February 1995)

YSS Bylaws  - updated June 2005

YSS 2005 Conference Highlights

Below are summaries of the YSS Conference Programs : (in MS Word Format)

Connecting Boys with Books: A Conversation with Michael Sullivan

Massachusetts Library Association Youth Services Section - Annual Spring Program

STORIES in SCIENCE with Stephen J. Lechner, The Science Works

2004-2005 YSS Highlights

Reader’s Advisory for Teens and Tweens

 

 

Section Charge:

Youth Services

The object of this organization shall be to promote library service to youth; to promote the profession of youth librarianship; to further the awareness of youth within the profession as well as the community at large, and to aid in implementing MLA state standards for Massachusetts Library Services for Children and Young Adults.

Section Chair:

Chair, Youth Service
Cathy Livingstone
Oxford Free Public Library
339 Main Street
Oxford, MA 01540
Phone: (508) 987-6003 ext.227
Email: clivingstone@bryley.com

 

Meeting Schedule:

Check out the MLA calendar of events for the next Youth Servies Section meeting