Sunday Reflections: Teens Today, Anxious and Angry at a World that Tells Them They Don’t Matter

Sunday Reflections: Teens Today, Anxious and Angry at a World that Tells Them They Don’t Matter

When I first began working in libraries, way back in the early 1990s, Young Adult services was just really beginning to grow. YALSA was introduced as a division of ALA in 1957, but libraries were slower to start hiring YA specialists. In fact, when I was in graduate school to get my MLS as a YA Librarian in the late 1990s/early 2000s, there was exactly 1 YA class to take. In the early 2000s YA librarianship like YA literature began to explode. L…