Minutes 11-17-2005

Minutes Youth Services Advisory Council November 17, 2005

Present:  Kim Bell, Loretta Brickley, Mary Cameron, Karen Day, Katie Dreyer, Pat Engemann, Jerri Heid, Joa LaVille, Maria Levetzow, Missy Mayfield-Cook, Linda Parker, Nancy Pudemz, Eileen Redinger, Elaine Reitz, Barb Sowers, Cathy Shaw, Mary Siegner, Terri Tesch, Sally Van Dorin, and Carol Simmons

Absent:  Brenda Knox, Beth Marie Quanbeck, Sue Reiher, Carol Rosenbaum, Bev Runyon and Deb Tobias.

Mary Cameron started the meeting with introductions and an overview of the agenda. 

Cameron asked if there were any changes to the minutes and one correction is to be made, Eileen Redinger’s name had been printed as Elaine.  Minutes were approved with the one change.

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Cameron and Day stated that the deadline for the first order of incentives to be received by March 1 is November 21.  January 21 is the second date, with arrival on April 1.  Cameron reported that the Kim Bolan workshop gave several good ideas for incentives for teens. 

Day will be sending a mailing that will include:  Creative Crafts for Critters, permission to use Wee Willy song, YA flyer, revised children’s flyer (with a location change), recipes for Puppy Chow and Monster Mash, and winter weather policy with 1-800 number.  Cameron elaborated on the location change in Iowa City.  This location will now be the Community room in North Liberty.  There will be one more location change in Paullina and will be announced when final arrangements for a building are made.  Cameron thanked Tesch for helping with these arrangements.

Cameron reported 70 registrations for Summer Reading Workshops have been received already.  The registrants for Iowa City will receive a notice of the change in location.  Brickley had a suggestion that everyone bring a digital camera to take pictures of the crafts.  Cameron will put the suggestion on the website for Summer Workshops.  Parker and Reitz reported on progress with the presentations.  They are going to emphasize upper elementary projects and storytimes for older children.  Suggestions from the group include:  getting the project done before the holidays, have fun with it, ask others to help, enjoy the experience, relax.  Tesch assured the group the crafts will be done by end of December.  Day reminded them that handouts need to be done by January.

Cameron reported that the Planning and Promotion ICN session has been put on hold.  She would like more time to think about what to do with this.

Cameron reported the ILA booth was a success again this year.  Participants could register for prizes Day then sent the winners their prizes.  Discussion followed with these comments about the booth:  it’s a good way to network, it helps staff get fired up, happy the manual came out prior to ILA conference, great for sharing ideas.

Cameron asked the committee to give their comments on her idea to do three regional summer workshops for YA.  Comments were:  kick it up a notch, use some of the ideas from the Kim Bolan workshops.  Cameron would like the Committee to e-mail any other suggestions to her.

Levetzow reported that the clip art provided was not user friendly.  Cameron asked her to e-mail the suggestion to her so she can take it to CSLP Annual Meeting, Submissions for manual ideas  are due December 1.   Russell Walks will be doing the artwork instead of Brett Helquist for the YA manual.  Suggestions for future artwork:  secondary languages, different fonts.  Cameron will get the information about the suggestions on the State Library website.

Cameron asked for suggestions on the Westgate/Kids First Conferences.  She asked if she should have a Westgate endowed speaker at Kids 1st 2007 or get authors to do some sessions.  Consensus of the Committee is they like the breakout sessions but would like to have the authors also.  One suggestion that was popular would be to have the Keynote speak on Thursday at the banquet.

Cameron reported Jim Gills sessions at ILA were great, she would like to have him go around the state and do workshops something like the Kitson workshops.  Several of the Committee members liked his sessions and would endorse her having him do the workshops.  ILA will be in Council Bluffs next year.

Information sharing:

• Sowers:  in the middle of a book fair.
• Siegner:  having after school program  and took Teen Spaces idea to board.
• Tesch:  also took Teen Spaces idea to board and they are working it into long term planning.
• Heid:  thanked Mary for bringing Kim Bolan’s workshop to them, doing a special program where they have a human sized game board & kids & adults will move around it.
• LaVille:  Put 50 books on a cart near the reference desk that would encourage teens to read – 20 were checked out.
• Shaw & Mayfield-Cook:  doing after school special on days school has early dismissal, gathering books to send to Mississippi.
• Redinger:  weeding, book sale, drawing for a book for those signed up during Children’s Book Week, they have a change in schedule, open and close one hour early.
• Reitz:  having a movie night December 2, making paper ornaments to be purchased with proceeds going to buy presents for children in hospital,
• Parker:  thanked Mary for the Bolan workshops, having a Grant Wood arts story with artwork at the mall.
• Van Dorn:  sent two boxes of paperbacks and 300 letters to soldiers overseas.
• Armitage:  having a student/teen advisory board with 15 twelve to seventeen year olds.
• Engemann:  showing movies, purchased the puppet to use with music, have an all county reads – the first book chosen “To Kill A Mockingbird,” had referendum passed.
• Pudenz:  got her guitar out and did the Jim Glides idea sang the sneezing song, having David Daugherty perform on Saturday.
• Levetzow:  happy with the Kim Bolan workshops get some great ideas, held two knitting workshops with 6 adult teachers and 13 people attending, holding a teen challenge with ten other libraries.
• Brickley:  had makeup artist come in and do Halloween faces, PJ party, discussion of Harry Potter.

Meeting adjourned at 1:00 p.m.