Minutes 05-6-2003

Youth Services Advisory Council

Mary Cameron called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. Mary took attendance. In attendance were: Kim Bell, Ginny Cameron, Karen Day, Linda Fox, Cheryl Haman, Jerri Heid, Beth Marie Quanbeck, Lisa Manley, Missy Mayfield-Cook, Cathy Shaw, Sue Reiher, Barb Sowers, Carol Rosenbaum, Mary Siegner, Terri Tesch, Sue Teutsch, Marilyn Tilley, Jeaneal Weeks. Absent: Cathy Boggs, Elizabeth Huff, Joa LaVille and Maria Levetzow.

Mary introduced the 2004 Summer Library Program Workshop Presenters. Missy Mayfield-Cook is the Director from the Winthrop Public Library. Cathy Shaw is the Director from the Edgewood Public Library.

Carol Rosenbaum is a new member of the council. She is replacing Liz Trippler, whose term was up this year. She is the Children’s Librarian from the Avoca Public Library in the SW LSA.

Minutes from the February 4, 2003 meeting were approved with no changes.

There was a great response. Attendance was up almost by 60 from 2002. If the weather was not a factor it probably would have been better. Mary was very pleased with the attendance.

Jeaneal’s thoughts: Hardest work she has done in a long time, but worth it! She said they followed the manual and then added to it. She really enjoyed working with Cathy and forgot that they weren’t going on the road together. When it came time to go do the workshop. They had worked so closely together. They worked every week getting the program together. It was a great sense of accomplishment. Everything we did seemed to be helpful to someone on the evaluations.

Highlights of Evaluations:
People appreciate seeing crafts.
People enjoy tying music into SRP
Positive comments about the presenters
Would like future programs to be about bugs
People enjoy the group participation

There were 198 in attendance at the workshop. Great response to this workshop.

Evaluation Highlights:
We have never had a YA summer program, so everything was very helpful.
Ideas/Information that I can use
Great presentation, fun and easy to follow
Convenience of workshop/Liked having it over the ICN.
Grossology books/section
Teen advisory board and activities
Book review binder or rolodex
Hope we continue to have this next year and every year.

There seems to be several conflicts for dates for the 2004 SLP workshops in February. February 14^th, Valentines Day, many libraries have programs that day and February 16^th is Presidents’ day and many libraries are closed. Mary said to e-mail her with dates that will and will not work and hopefully she can come up with a schedule.

CSLP Manual is completed. Karen said to expect the final copy around the first part of September. There will be a CD again with the following additions to the CD; colored poster, calendar, section of the manual in PDF format, some in Spanish format, press release and they will be giving you access to the font so you can customize the information to your library. Mark Buehmer will be doing the artwork.

The Iowa YA Manual is in the rough, rough draft stages and the final product will be completed around the first part of September as well. There will be another ICN YA SLP workshop in 2004.

The theme for the 2005 SLP is:  Imagine Dragons, Dreams and Daring Deeds

The chapters are:
Life in the Middle Ages
Medieval Fairs and Feasts
Fairy Tales, Legends and Folk Tales
Dragons and Mythical Beasts
Daring Deeds
Fantasy/Dream

CSLP will have a YA manual for 2005. The 2006 theme will be Pets. We couldn’t get a "Bugs" theme quite yet.

Mary said that attendance was down 1 person from 2002. The Evaluations are not completed yet. When they are finished they will be sent out. They should be completed the first part of next week.

Comments from everyone about the Conference:

Claudia was wonderful! It is a wonderful conference. Liked the food. The facility worked well. It was great to have the handouts even though we were not able to get to all the breakout sessions. Handouts were a great idea. Would like to have the schedules for both days ahead of time so we could decide what session we would like to attend. Would have liked Walter Minkel to speak in the morning.

Mary said she is worried about the economy and might consider brining in a national speaker so she can open up the lecture to others interested in children. She could then invite Community Colleges, Day Cares, Pre-Schools, Early Child Educators and so on. Mary said this would also give us the chance to network and really utilize each other’s resources.

The new location for the Westgate Lecture is at the Stoney Creek Inn – 5291 NW 84^th Street, Johnston, Iowa 50131. The lecture will be held from 10-3 with lunch.

Judy Bar-Shimon resigned as Chairman. The new Chairman is Linda Fox and Jerri Heid is the new Vice Chair. They are still looking for someone to work on the CYP newsletter. Linda reported they are working on revitalizing the awards program. They are also working on setting goals and asking LSA members to help with this.

Meeting Dates For Next Year

Next meeting will be September 30, 2003 at the State Library from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. with lunch provided. Topics will be - How we deliver Youth Services, Special Activities, SLP Philosophy, Youth Services Guidelines and we will discuss how your SLP went. So be sure to bring you thinking caps and lets have fun.

Other meeting dates for next year:
September 30, 2003 (in person at State Library)
November 4, 2003
February 3, 2004
April 15, 2004 Westgate Lecture
May 4, 2004

Jerri is having SLP presentations at schools. Today had a group of 3^rd graders. They were a tough group. She is doing some magic for her presentation.

Beth Marie is working with the Central Iowa Library Alliance. They are networking with all types of libraries in Central Iowa to improve services. The Central Iowa Library Alliance is also the Sponsor of the Book Cart Brigade, a book cart drill team. There first "outing" was at the Drake Relays Parade.

Cheryl is having a book sale Saturday. She has 2 years worth of books she has to get ready for this sale. Will be having a Bubbly Goo exhibit with the Extension Office. Mary S. is getting ready for SRP and having school visits. Her library hired Deanna Cruise this year with Enrich Iowa money.

Ginny is excited about SRP. She reminded that it is Garfield’s 25^th Birthday and her library is having a Birthday Party for him.

Jeaneal announced she is the new director at her library. Yeah! She is busy working on SRP and looking for a new children’s librarian.

Kim is giving 3^rd grade tours this week. She is real excited about a Captain Underpants party. She is looking forward to the September 30 YSAC meeting.

Missy is getting ready for school visits on Thursday. She also wanted to mention that the Governor has not signed the Reinvention Bill and we should do whatever it takes to have him veto this bill.

Cathy is getting ready for SRP. She will be putting up a bulletin board at the school. She is really looking forward to the workshops next spring.

Karen Day has been working on Building Blocks to Lifelong Learning workshop on August 6^th & 7^th. Mary Wegner, Mary Cameron and Mary Jo Langhorne will be speaking about information literacy, what it is, why it is so important and how school, public, and academic libraries can work together to promote it.

Linda will be getting a new director at the Oskaloosa Public Library. Suzann from the Southeastern LSA will be starting in June. Linda is preparing for SRP. Her Youth group will do a program based on the TV show Laugh-In.

Marilyn will have a Buddy program again this year for the SRP. An adult is teamed up to read with a child in the community. She is also getting prepared for her Gates computer that will be coming soon.

Terri is getting ready for school visits. She will be having upside down and backwards day. She will be dressed in this manner as well. (Several of us would like to see pictures of how this worked out for her)

Carol is getting ready for SRP and school visits. She is excited to be a part of the YSAC group.

Sue R is getting ready for SRP with class visits. She also recently was recognized by the city for 25 years of service at the library. Way to go Sue!

Barb will be having a magic show for her SRP kick off.

The meeting adjourned at 6:50 p.m.

Contact Lisa Manley at the State Library with any additions or corrections to the minutes.