Minutes 11-04-2003

Youth Services Advisory Council
November 4, 2003
Various ICN Sites
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

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

Minutes

Minutes from the September 30, 2003 meeting were approved with no changes.

2004 CSLP Summer Library Program – Discover New Trails @ Your Library

The manuals, incentives forms and free resource book have all been mailed to the libraries.  This years incentive form has a “sliding” ordering schedule, so if you make you initial order early you will get delivery earlier.  Libraries will also have the chance to order later.  The workshop dates and sites have all been finalized.  Cathy and Missy are meeting regularly and plan to have their final plans ready by December 1.  Terri Tesch has volunteered to make the crafts from the manual for display at the workshops.  Liz Trippler is assembling a bibliography of Lewis and Clark books.  The ILA Booth was a big hit with Roy Rogers and still seems to be a great way to promote the summer library program theme.

2004 YA Summer Library Program

The YA SLP Workshop will be March 11 from 9-11.  Mary has not scheduled the ICN sites yet.  Maria has looked at the notes from last year’s session and noticed there were lots of comments about using volunteers and using YAs as volunteers, so she is going to include that in the workshop this year.  Mary is going to post a message about the YA workshop and information librarians want from the workshop after January 1.  Also, we want to hear success stories from last year’s program.

2005 CSLP Summer Library Program – Dragons, Dreams and Daring Deeds

Patti Sinclair, the author and editor of the manual has requested submissions and Mary distributed that information on the youth services mail list and at ILA.  No chapters are ready yet.  Marilyn Tilley reminded everyone with left over costume sales for Halloween librarians could find some bargains to use for SLP.  She also mentioned that Oriental Trading has a set of puppets with a king, queen, knight, dragon, etc. for $14.00.  Mary asked Marilyn to post this information on the website and that these puppets would be a good giveaway for the ILA booth.

Westgate Lecture

The location for the Westgate Lecture will be the Stoney Creek Inn – 5291 NW 84^th Street , Johnston , Iowa 50131 . The Westgate Lecture will be done in partnership with the Iowa Department of Education and Iowa Public Television.    Barbara Moss, who specializes in using nonfiction books with children, will be the keynote speaker on Wednesday, April 14.  Registration will begin at 8:30 with the keynote at 10:00 .  Lunch will be provided.  On Thursday, April 15 everyone will have a chance to attend breakout sessions through out the day.  Both days will provide opportunities for librarian to connect with other professionals that work with children.  A tentative theme is “Early Literacy Content and Connections Conference.”  Registration tentatively will be $15.00 for one day and $20.00 for both days.  Flyers should be ready by January.

Kids First Conference

Kids First has been scheduled for April 28 and 29, 2005 at the Four Points Sheraton on Merle Hay Road .  Mary has contacted Pat Mora, but has not hear back from the publisher.  Other ideas are Esme Raji Codell and Jon Scieszka. 

CYP

Linda Fox reported that 29 members attended the CYP meeting at ILA.  The Quality Time Award was given to Christie Vilsack.  Jerri Heid is the new chair of CYP.  CYP will be sponsoring a pre-conference with Jim Trelease at ILA in October, 2004.

Other

The SLP evaluation form is still being reviewed.  We have done one rough draft and will also share it with the CSLP manual committee. 

The Jane Kitson workshops were very well attended by almost 400 people. 

Elizabeth Huff reported going to the Matrix movie with patrons at midnight .  The library made $3,000 from their literacy baskets.

Maria Levetzow had a teen read-in competition for Teen Read Week.

Jerri Heid reported that she is busy and thing are going well.

Cheryl Haman’s library is getting new shelving and is being painted.  She is thinking about having a sleep over for girls.

Ginny Cameron went to the Jane Kitson workshop.

Missy Mayfield-Cook reported that the local newspaper did a two page article about the library.

Cathy Shaw is working with the Chamber of Commerce for the holiday festival in Edgewood .  She had 27 little goblins at her Halloween story time.

Joa has a Halloween program and hosted a dog show at the library.

Linda Fox thought Jane Kitson was great.  They are getting a new security system. Her teens are getting an entry ready for the annual lighted parade. 

Marilyn Tilley is getting ready for the Festival of Trees at their library.  Beth Marie is going to decorate a tree.

Terri Tesch’s fall story times are in full swing.  She is doing senior citizen computer training.

Carol Rosenbaum did a program on mummies and it was very successful and offered to do it for others.  She is asking children to bring a sock without a mate to decorate the library tree.

Sue Reiher had Wartburg College come and perform Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin Patch and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony played to encourage the kids to play instruments and learn how to behave at a concert.

Barb Sowers did trick or treat on main street and had Halloween parties all day.  Her library is having a book fair to raise money for a new library entrance.

Future Meeting Dates

February 3, 2004

April 14 and 15, 2004 Westgate Lecture

May 4, 2004

Mary thanked everyone for attending.