About YALSA

TAGS (Teen Advisory Group Site)Task Force Description

Type: Standing

Date of Establishment Midwinter 2003

Date of Completion:Continuing

Membership: 5

Qualifications:

Term of Office: Two Years

Function: To provide a forum for the learning, discussion and promotion of TAGS as a critical part of library service to all teens. This includes library Teen Advisory Groups and all other forms of teens as advisors in libraries. To promote and maintain a YALSA TAGS online presence, including but not limited to blog postings and web site and wiki content.

Procedures:

History: A web site for teens was created by YALSA and the Public Information Office in November/December 1997. At Midwinter 2003 after a report from the Web Site Task Force, this committee was sunsetted, and a plan was announced to replace the committee with the Teen Advisory GroupsSite Committee, and to replace Teen Hoopla with the TAGS web site. In 2008, the TAGS function statement changed to broaden responsibility to overseeing the TAGS presence throughout YALSA's electronic resources.

Policies revised June 2008.