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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">Happy Friday to you. I just read a
<i>VOYA</i> blog post and thought some of you might be interested in it. Anthony Bernier, a professor at SJSU’s School of Information, wrote “The Damaging Myth of ‘Teen Behavior’,” and he is fired up about the topic. I don’t like his use of the term “fake news”
in this context, but that aside, some of his points made me say “hmmm” –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">Arsenio Hall, anyone? ;-)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:#DDDDDD">Why do we never refer to </span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#888888;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#DDDDDD">positive</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:#DDDDDD"> behavior?
Why, in other words, is “behavior” always code for anti–social?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:#DDDDDD">How can such sweeping generalizations be made of an entire social group? Substitute such a sweeping claim for another
social category: “</span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#888888;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#DDDDDD">women’s</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:#DDDDDD"> behavior?”
Try substituting in an entire racial group’s “behavior.” Now try a religious group. How are these claims so clearly examples of bigotry except when hurled against young people?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:#DDDDDD">For all of YALSA’s guidelines, top tips, and “best practice” claims, the association offers precious little </span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#888888;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#DDDDDD">evidence</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:#DDDDDD"> that
these training recommendations do anything at all—except endorse and reproduce age–based bigotry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:#DDDDDD">When was the last time your library security staff were trained, and evaluated, for demonstrating understanding and respect
for young library users? Increasingly, we farm–out those responsibilities to “let Security handle it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">If you want to read Bernier’s impassioned post for yourself, here you go:
<a href="http://voyamagazine.com/2018/02/05/ya-strike-zone-february-2018/">http://voyamagazine.com/2018/02/05/ya-strike-zone-february-2018/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Jen Maurer, MLS
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