Studies and publications for young adults includes brochures on library services for young adults and checklists of materials and books (1979-81; 1999). Brochures include Librarians can Help; Blueprint for a book show; Richer ASIA: A Project for young adults; For everything there is a season; Young adult services: a symposium; The junior high reader; Making the most of media; Look, Listen, Explain and Directions for library service to young adults; "Teen Hoopla: An Internet Guide for Teens" bookmark. The series includes Library Service to Young Adults, edited by Emma Cohn and Brita Olsson (Copenhagen, Biblioteks-centralen, c. 1968) and Youth, Society, and the Public Library by Miriam Braverman (Chicago: ALA, 1979); issues of Young Adult Library Services magazine.

Young Adult Library Services publications moved to RS 32/3/9.

The Young Adult Library Services Organization (YALSA) as of 1991-1992, is interested in the improvement and extension of service to young people in all types of libraries.

The Young Adult Library Services Association is responsible for the evaluation and selection of books and non-book materials and the interpretation and use of materials for young adults.

YALSA has the reponsibility for:

1. Continuous study and review of the activities assigned to the division

2. Planning of special services and programs for this group

3. Synthesis of the activities of all units within the ALA that have a bearing on the type of activity represented

4. Representation, interpretation and promotion of mutual cooperation with youth-serving agencies in furthering activities for the welfare of the young people, and furtherance of the interests of young adults with publishers

5. Stimulation of the development of librarians engaged in its type of activity and the stimulation of participation in appropriate type-of-library divisions

6. Planning and development of programs of study and research for the total profession

The young Adult Library Services Association became a division on January 1, 1957.  It was called the Association of Young People's Librarians from that date until June 25, 1957, when the new name was adopted (1).  In 1991-92 the name was changed to Young Adult Library Services Association.