Faculty member Lucia Cedeira Serantes has recently published Young People, Comics and Reading. The book will be available in open access until February 21st.

Scholars, LIS students and professionals interested in the study and engagement with young people will find this project relevant to deepening their understanding of reading practices with comics and graphic novels. Comics reading has been an understudied experience despite its potential to enrich our exploration of reading in our currently saturated media landscape. This Element is based on seventeen in-depth interviews with teens and young adults who describe themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. From these readers, one begins to understand why comics reading is something that young people do not 'grow out of' but an experience that they 'grow with'.

Alumna Syntychia Kendrick-Samuel was interviewed for the professional journal Voice of Youth Advocates. In the interview she talks about the award winning library programs for teens that she has lead and she also reflects on her daily work and her professional involvement and development. Syntychia Kendrick-Samuel is also a 2016 Library Journal Mover & Shaker and has frequently been a guest lecturer in GSLIS courses. If you are a Queens College student or faculty, you may access the article through the library catalog: Robinson, A. (2018, December). Connecting and Collaborating with Young Adults: A Blueprint for Success: An Interview with Syntychia Kendrick-Samuel, Head of Young Adult Services at Uniondale Public Library. Voice of Youth Advocates, 41(5), 32-33