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1. www.abqjournal.com
www.abqjournal.com/contacts/co - [Cached]Published on: 6/14/2008 Last Visited: 6/14/2008
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2. ABQjournal: Contact the Journal
www.abqjournal.com/contact.htm - [Cached]Published on: 4/14/2006 Last Visited: 4/14/2006
Ruth Clark, copy editor -
3. ALA | AASL National Conference Preconferences
news.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferen - [Cached]Published on: 10/12/2007 Last Visited: 2/29/2008
Presenter: Dr. Ruth Cox Clark, Associate Professor in the Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology within the College of Education at East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina.
Dr. Clark will share techniques for enticing teens to explore the new genres and formats available in recently published YA Literature. The workshop session will also address ways to update the secondary school media center to become the place to be, even for those teens who would rather listen to music on their iPods or surf the Net than interact with a book. Research on teen responses to booktalking styles, as well as booktalks for newly published YA literature titles, will be presented, accompanied by a bibliography of these and other recommended YA titles.
Dr. Clark teaches both children's and young adult literature/materials courses in the MLS Program and has previous taught at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and Sam Houston State University in Texas. Dr. Clark is the author of two booktalking titles: Tantalizing Tidbits for Teens: Quick Booktalks for the Busy High School Library Media Specialist and Tantalizing Tidbits for Middle Schoolers: Quick Booktalks for Busy Middle School and Junior High Media Specialists. She has presenting booktalking sessions at national, state and regional level conferences as well as conducted library media in-services on booktalking techniques. Dr. Clark writes a Reader's Advisory column for Library Media Connection and has been a children's' and young adult columnist for Teacher Librarian.
