ALA | Professsional Development Center
YALSA has released its new competencies for people serving young adults. The ten core values now reflected in the competencies are:
Developmental needs
Youth development
Youth advocacy
Youth participation
Collaboration
Information literacy
Adolescent literacy
Learning and achievement
Equity of access and intellectual freedom
Bravo! I especially appreciate the core values, since they are a great way to communicate with library boards the changing role of libraries with regard to teens.