The teen page of the San Antonio Public Library is titled Youth(wired) - Teens @ SAPL Webpage V4.0. This page is very is user centred page with lots of interactive links and areas to give teens help with their home work, personal research, information about library programming and personal reading choices. Library links include: a homework link with information and online help from tutors; booklinks with lots of reading selections arranged by genre; a MySpace page with a bookshelf, images, blogs, videos, “friend” links and a meebo chat box; a practice test page; a link to library events and a place to submit book reviews.
The Youth (Wired) page in my view functions fairly well as place where teens will gather, with the interactive components, like the MySpace page and the tutor help. There are a lot of “teens” visible on this page which seems to give ownership to those particular library users, which I think should make it more attractive to them as well. I did, however, find a few dead links on the site, including one big link on the main page to the Spanish component of the website. I also found the website may have been a bit lacking in information about how to use the library or links to library resources for teens (aside from the reading lists; audio or video or electronic resources or magazines).
San Antonio Public Library. (2009). Youth(wired) - Teens @ SAPL Webpage V4.0. Retrieved from http://www.youthwired.sat.lib.tx.us/
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