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Apply for a Teen Tech Week mini grant! YALSA and the Verizon Foundation are offering up to twenty mini grants of $450 cash and $50 worth of promotional products. Press Play @ your library, March 8-14!

Join us at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver! Registration is open. Find out YALSA's Midwinter plans (including the Reaching Today's Diverse Teens Institute and the YALSA Mixer & Tech Playground) at the YALSA Midwinter Wiki.

Register for our Winter 2009 Online Courses by Feb. 2. The winter session includes: "Booktalks Quick and Simple," "Boys and Books," and "Power Programming for Teens." See course descriptions and prices on the Online Courses page.

Join us at the Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory High School in Kingston, Pa. for our Teens and Technology Institute! Registration costs $85 before Feb. 1. Learn more at the institute's webpage.

Visit the YALSA Wiki.

See results from ALA's poll on youth library usage, conducted by Harris Interactive. (.pdf file; Adobe Reader required).