Fostering Digital Information Literacy

How Young Adult Libraries

Support Teen Sexual Health

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“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 LibraryRomeoville, IL

Stow-Munroe Falls Public LibraryStow, OH

Northfield Mount Hermon SchoolMount Hermon, MA

Lake Oswego Public LibraryLake Oswego, OR

Nashville Public LibraryNashville, TN

University Laboratory High SchoolUrbana, IL

Health Resource PagesUniversity Laboratory High School Libraryhttp://unihighlib.pbwiki.com/LGBTQ+Reads

Stow-Munroe Falls Public Libraryhttp://www.smfpl.org/node/1723/171

Northfield Mount Hermon Schoolhttp://libguides.nmhschool.org/health

Lake Oswego Public Libraryhttp://www.ci.oswego.or.us/library/teen/teen_links_health_and_sexuality.htm

Fountaindale Public Libraryhttp://www.fountaindale.lib.il.us/teens/healthinfo.php

Nashville Public Libraryhttp://www.library.nashville.org/research/res_ws_health.asp

References“Anime & manga”CC Attribution share-alike 2.0 generic licenseFrom bluemodern's photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_fisk/1036115462/

Every Thug Needs a LadyCover image from LibraryThinghttp://www.librarything.com/work/898778

A Hustler's SonCover image from LibraryThinghttp://www.librarything.com/work/2361338

Our Bodies, OurselvesCover image from ourbodiesourselves.orghttp://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/inside/artcover.asp

ReferencesUni High Library photos courtesy of Frances HarrisGargoyles Loose in the Libraryhttp://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/

New York Public Library photos courtesy of Jack Martinhttp://teenlink.nypl.org/index.html

Fresno County Public Library photos courtesy of Lisa LindsaySunnyside Teen Councilhttp://www.myspace.com/sunnysideteencouncil

Whelan, Debra Lau. "A Dirty Little Secret: Self-Censorship." School Library Journal, 2/1/2009http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6632974.html

Do Somethinghttp://www.dosomething.org/

ReferencesYoung Adult Library Services AssociationTeen Tech Week http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teentechweek/ttw09/home.cfm

Teen Health & Wellnesshttp://teenhealthandwellness.com/

Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopushttp://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/