YALSA blog feed

YALSA or the Young Adult Library Services Association contains a RSS feed for its blog which is used to provide librarians working with young adult readers with different types of information including reviews of apps to assist in providing services, somewhere to show relevant tweets which people have found and a variety of other topics.

The feed is displayed on the blog site in reverse chronological order with the option of checking previous posting based on the date of publication being the only navigational aid so subscribing to the feed is a useful feature. Also the text is a bit small to be read comfortably so this is another reason that subscribing to the feed is useful.


YALSA. 2013. YALSA. [online] Available at: http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/ [Accessed: 31 Jul 2013].

 The YALSA blog is established as being authoritative due in part to the organisation being a division of the American Libraries Association and partly due to the procedures used to determine that only suitably qualified bloggers can submit posts which have to meet certain standards. The comments are also subjected to those standards and are moderated by the blog manager.

The stated purpose of the blog is to provide a means of publishing information about issues relevant to the young adult librarianship community.

The blog site contains only two ads which are both for YALSA projects so indicates independence of the blog from outside influences.

The blog is aimed primarily at library staff serving young adults and their clients.

This is a useful blog to subscribe to as there is a range of information to interest staff and student alike with the RSS feed including images to help break up the text.