Library Development Div. history

In 1954, the list was first reprinted, from TOP OF THE NEWS and BOOKLIST, for membership distribution and promotion.

In 1956, the list was formally and orally presented to the ALA Council, but after that, the Council cut it from the agenda.

The first major organizational problem facing both the Young Adult Services Division and the Children's Services Division was a move by the ALA Executive Board to absorb TOP OF THE NEWS into the ALA BULLETIN in 1958.

In 1959, the NEA Journal requested a booklist of outstanding fiction for the college-bound high school student.

One of the most popular committee projects was the Dial-A-Book project at the New York World's Fair in 1964.

Another highly successful committee was the Disadvantaged Committee which sponsored the _Two Blocks Apart_ Preconference in New York in 1966 -- YASD's first preconference.

Again, in 1967, at San Francisco, YASD sponsored the preconference _Intellectual Freedom and the Teenager_ along with the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee.

In 1970, the Magazine Committee changed from reviewing individual magazines reviewing a subject field.

A joint exploratory committee with RASD (Reference and Adult Services Division) was set up in 1972 to see if there was a need for more formal associations or projects between the two divisions.

In 1974, the committee was disbanded by direction of the YASD Board.

In 1975-1975, a single YASD committee took on the task of revising all five at once.

YASD went on to form a committee, Services Statement Development Committee, which wrote Directions for Library Services to Young Adults, in 1977.