Fostering Digital Information Literacy How Young Adult Libraries Support Teen Sexual Health mk Eagle

“ It’s sort of a soft, quiet, very insidious censorship, where nobody is raising a stink, nobody is complaining, nobody is burning books. They’re just quietly making sure it doesn’t get out there.” -Barry Lyga on the plight of Boy Toy

Fountaindale Public Library Romeoville, IL

Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library Stow, OH

Northfield Mount Hermon School Mount Hermon, MA

Lake Oswego Public Library Lake Oswego, OR

Nashville Public Library Nashville, TN

University Laboratory High School Urbana, IL

Health Resource Pages University Laboratory High School Library http://unihighlib.pbwiki.com/LGBTQ+Reads Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library http://www.smfpl.org/node/1723/171 Northfield Mount Hermon School http://libguides.nmhschool.org/health Lake Oswego Public Library http://www.ci.oswego.or.us/library/teen/teen_links_health_and_sexuality.htm Fountaindale Public Library http://www.fountaindale.lib.il.us/teens/healthinfo.php Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/research/res_ws_health.asp

References “ Anime & manga” CC Attribution share-alike 2.0 generic license From bluemodern's photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_fisk/1036115462/ Every Thug Needs a Lady Cover image from LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/work/898778 A Hustler's Son Cover image from LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/work/2361338 Our Bodies, Ourselves Cover image from ourbodiesourselves.org http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/inside/artcover.asp

References Uni High Library photos courtesy of Frances Harris Gargoyles Loose in the Library http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/ New York Public Library photos courtesy of Jack Martin http://teenlink.nypl.org/index.html Fresno County Public Library photos courtesy of Lisa Lindsay Sunnyside Teen Council http://www.myspace.com/sunnysideteencouncil Whelan, Debra Lau. "A Dirty Little Secret: Self-Censorship." School Library Journal , 2/1/2009 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6632974.html Do Something http://www.dosomething.org/

References Young Adult Library Services Association Teen Tech Week http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teentechweek/ttw09/home.cfm Teen Health & Wellness http://teenhealthandwellness.com/ Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/