Competency #2: The YA YA YAs Blog

I found this blog http://theyayayas.wordpress.com/
via Google Blog Search blogsearch.google.com
This blog is written by three Young Adult Librarians who share all aspects of life in YA. The blog includes great book reviews, projects, ideas for summer reading club and much more.
I like this blog because it covers lots of topics and also because there are three librarians blogging, so you get several perspectives. I selected this quote as an example of why you need other people to help with the teen craft aspect of programming.

"A Crafty Librarian Manifesto
Filed under: Crafty Librarian — Trisha @ 10:32 am
When I started telling Gayle about what I wanted to include on this blog, craft ideas were at the top of my list. It’s hard thinking of crafts you can do that are:

1. cheap;
2. cool (meaning it doesn’t look like something that should be part of a children’s storytime, but is actually something teens would want to make);
3. you can do in a group;
4. you can do in less than an hour or so;
5. don’t require any special equipment like a sewing machine or a drill (unless you maybe work in Berkeley);
6. don’t require any special skills;
7. did I mention cheap?
So in order to remember those crafts that made me say, “Hey, this was/would be such a great program!” and for anyone else struggling to find good crafty ideas to use with teens, I thought it would be fun to have a “Crafty Librarian” feature on the blog."