
Creating and providing professional development opportunities and materials for library staff members working with young adult populations.

The #WeWereHere Project aims to create a repository of teen voices in the historic time of 2020. If you are a teen, we want to hear from you how this unprecedented year of great social upheaval and pandemic has affected you. If you are a librarian, you can learn how to help and join your library to the project here. If you are just an interested person, please spread this project, use the hashtag, and amplify youth voices locally. Now is the time to hear and more importantly listen to young people.
News
- YASF Meeting 1.13.22
- February 8, 2022
- https://yasfnews.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/young-adult-services-forum-meeting-minutes-january-13-2022/
- YASF Meeting Minutes 9.9.21
- September 22, 2021
- https://yasfnews.wordpress.com/2021/09/13/3793/
- Genevieve Stevens is the Recipient of the 2021 Young Adult Librarian of the Year Award
- September 13, 2021
- Genevieve Stevens, who currently works as an Adult Services Librarian in the Adult & Teen Services Department at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library and who was formerly a Teen Librarian at the Naperville Public Library, is the 2021 recipient of the…
Events
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Aug
11
2022
Young Adult Services Forum Open Board Meeting
Thursday, Aug 11, 2022 10:00am–11:30am
Zoom Meeting
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Sep
8
2022
Young Adult Services Forum Open Board Meeting
Thursday, Sep 8, 2022 10:00am–11:30am
Zoom Meeting
YASF Webinars
Tournament of Books
YASF Reports
Forum Leadership
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Kylie L Peters, Manager Middle School Services Librarian at Geneva Public Library District
Term ends 10/31/2022 -
Kara Thorstenson, Board liaison Director of Libraries at Chicago Public Schools
Term ends 06/30/2022 -
Meredith "Maisie" Iven, Forum liaison Teen Librarian at Naperville Public Library
Term ends 06/30/2022 -
Genevieve Stevens, Member Librarian at Thomas Ford Memorial Library
Term ends 10/31/2023 -
Heather Colby, Member Homer Township Public Library District
Term ends 10/31/2022 -
Martha Buehler-Sullivan, Member Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
Term ends 10/31/2022 -
Nicole Marcuccilli Mills, Member Glenview Public Library
Term ends 10/31/2022 -
Sonya Hill, Member Teen Librarian at Ela Area Public Library District
Term ends 10/31/2023 -
Krista Hutley, Manager-Elect Adult & Teen Librarian at Wilmette Public Library District
Term ends 10/31/2022 -
Izabel Gronski, Past Manager Chicago Public Library
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Cyndi Robinson, Staff liaison Deputy Director at Illinois Library Association
Term ends 06/30/2025