[WEB4LIB] teens/youth pages

[Andrew I. Mutch]

Tracey,

I would start with Sara Ryan's "It's Hip To Be Square" article from School
Library Journal where she outlines the do's and don'ts of Library Teen web
sites:

http://slj.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articleArchive&articleId=CA153040&display=searchResults&stt=001

As for cool teen web sites, you might want to check in at YALSA.  Here's
one that I always thought looked good:

http://saclib.org/KidsTeens/kidsteens.html

You can see Sacramento has split their content into Kids and Teens.

Another good place to find good-looking sites is Charlotte-Mecklenburg:

http://www.plcmc.org/

They have a number of "kid-oriented" web sites under their main library
web site.

The Virtual YA Index should help you narrow your scope:

http://yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/virtual.html

It is an index of library teen web pages.

Good luck!

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI




On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Reed, Tracey wrote:

> Hiya Web4Libbers,
> 
> I'm starting to redesign our kids and teens pages to be more "kidlike."
> I've gathered comments from our various teen groups, but wanted to ask
> others what they have found.  I am planning on splitting kids and teens into
> separate areas...
> 
> Anybody have any pages that they love/think work well/etc.?  I've been
> systematically going through the libraries linked from
> http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/Public_main.html  (thanks Thomas!) but
> this could take me forever!  
> 
> Conversely, anybody have bad experiences with kidstuff that I should stay
> away from?
> 
> We are limited by keeping the City logo and library script graphic at the
> top of the page. If you want to see what we currently look like:
> www.clearwater-fl.com/cpl/kids.html
> 
> As always, your input and advice are wonderful.
> 
> -t
> ___________________
> Tracey Reed
> Webmaster, Clearwater Public Library System
> www.clearwater-fl.com
> treed at clearwater-fl.com
> 
>