February 7, 2006 Minutes

Present:  Kim Bell, Loretta Brickley, Mary Cameron, Karen Day, Katie Dreyer, Pat Engemann, Jerri Heid, Brenda Knox, Joa LaVille, Marie Levetzow, Missy Mayfield-Cook, Linda Parker,  Eileen Redinger, Sue Reiher, Elaine Reitz, Carol Rosenbaum, Cathy Shaw, Mary Siegner, Barb Sowers, Terri Tesch, Deb Tobias, Sally Van Dorin, Linda Armitage, and Carrie Falk

Absent:  Nancy Pudenz, Beth Marie Quanbeck, Bev Runyon

Mary began the meeting with introductions at each ICN site.

Mary asked for additions or corrections of the November 17, 2005 meeting minutes.  Linda Parker needs to be added to list of attendees.

2006 Paws, Claws, Scales, and Tales workshops will begin February 13, and will be held in Fayette, North Liberty, Ottumwa, Grundy Center, and Johnston.   The second week will begin the week of February 27 and be held in Elliott, Churdan, Paullina, Algona, and Charles City.  We have had record registrations, as of today 526 people have registered.  Linda and Elaine both reported being excited to get started.  Cameron thanked Terri for the great work she did on the crafts.  The new registration process has been going well.

Mary reported that the public service announcement will be unveiled at the workshops and tell librarians how to get a copy of it.  Karen Day reported it has left California and should be in Wisconsin for duplication and Upstart will sell them for us this year.  There will be three formats VHS/DVD/Beta Cam.  If you plan on asking your local cable network to broadcast the PSA, ask which format they will need.  Cost is VHS/DVD $4.50-$5.00 and Beta Cam is $30 plus shipping.  Upstart will be accepting orders on February 11 and once they have done that Karen Day will announce something on the mail lists.  It will be at the same site where you order incentives and they will have a link.  Cameron said there will be information sheets at all the workshops too.  IPTV is pretty sure they will be able to broadcast these PSA again this year for us. 

IPTV is again going to do their summer series of stories like they did last year.  If you are thinking of having those programs supplement your summer programming you need to sign up ASAP because they are very limited on sites they are offering this year.  Eileen thinks this is a great theme and maybe we could ask the local vet to come in to answer children’s questions.  Deb knows a lady in the Cedar Rapids area who is developing a program that relates to the theme. She will bring brochures to the North Liberty workshop. Carol is looking for someone who could bring in snakes.   Mary posted that question on the Youth Services Listserv yesterday, she had had others ask and will forward any information she gets to Carol.   Pat mentioned Shelby County Conservation has information on snakes.  Mary said this local conservation groups are a good source of information.  Loretta is planning on having Mary LaFluer from Kentucky in her area June 28^th.  She does a lot of hands on with the kids and has a special section on Paws and Claws this year.  Loretta will get the information to Mary to send out over the listserv.  Loretta sent the following information after the meeting:  (Mary LaFleur web site and email address.  wwwmarylafleur.com, email pinkele194@aol.com she has put together a program that goes with our summer theme. She has been in the area before and people have loved her.  She is sending me a couple of CDs and I will try and share them with other libraries when I get them.  She has programs booked in Anamosa, Central City, Hopkinton, and Cedar Raids the last week in June.)  Pat wonders about the use of a drug dog for a program.

2006 Creature Feature, workshop registration for this is at 98 for the three workshops we are going.  Last year we had 143 participants for the ICN we did and we aren’t far from that number this year.  We will be advertising these at the summer reading workshops and should have attendance close to this again this year. We are hosting these at the AEAs in Cedar Rapids, Johnston, and Storm Lake.  We could use more people in NW Iowa.  Maria is developing these workshops and will have lots of information to share about books, crafts, and other ideas for teens. Mary will have library science books there along with other things.  We are going to go over a wide range of topics and we are going to go over the suggestions everyone had last time we met.  Maria really wants the workshops to be centered on the reading program.  So it will be pretty broad and have a lot of room for discussion, questions and sharing time.  We are going to have book displays, there aren’t a lot of crafts in this manual but I have some to add and we are working on decorations as well.  Directions of the crafts will be sent to Karen Day so she can do handouts. 

Yesterday Mary posted several things on the Youth Services Listserv and reminded members that if they are not subscribed to ys_talk, they should consider it.  Cameron reported that the Collaborative Summer Library program is asking for feedback on the CD Rom that came with your manual.  So if you find things lacking or changes that need to be made, please e-mail Mary with any changes by March 10 include what you like, don’t like format etc.  Some comments already have been having two CDs instead of one.  One suggestion has been to have one CD  for the children’s program and one for the youth program. This feedback will be taken to the annual CSLP meeting.    And jumping ahead, the 2008 Children’s manual chair is asking for feedback on specific themes for the 2008 children’s program.  The general theme is bugs so if you have some cute ideas, send them to Mary by March 1.  And watch your e-mail Mary will be sending information about the manual, CD, and the incentives (what you liked/didn’t like about the incentives) as well as information on the PSAs.  About 200 videos of the PSAs were sent out last year, but we didn’t get a lot of usage of the videos, so we are interested in the utilization of the items in the summer program.

The 2007 Summer Library Program – Get a Clue at the Library, the children’s manual is coming along and they are reviewing the last chapter.  Katie Dreyer from Algona and Kathy Rogers from Mason City have been reviewing the manual chapters as workshop presenters.  Maria is working on the teen manual and she reports it being done and will be working on revisions.  Maria did caution everyone about using abbreviations such as YNK (you never know), she has talked to several people and they didn’t know what that was.  The CSLP YA Manual Committee has not seen the rough draft yet.  Unfortunately no pre-planning has been done by the YA Committee before the annual meeting.  A number of CSLP members on the committee would like to see some of these things addressed prior to the conference.  That way we could run them by kids because we don’t know what kids are text messaging about and I think that’s crucial to run that by teens and that we aren’t choosing that manual theme.   In addition, many of the states including Iowa are getting a large Latino population and we need to discuss the translation of the themes into the Latino culture.  Translating the theme into Spanish is also something that should be planned prior to the CSLP Annual Meeting.

Soon, the Collaborative will be asking for general concepts for the 2009 reading programs.  Not specific themes, so if you have one you would like to submit please e-mail Mary.   Themes suggested included: ancient times such as Egypt, Greece, Rome, fair theme, conservation and environment, deserts, rain forests. Another suggestion by many members was not to include “At the Library.” 

Kids First 2007 is on the agenda, but there are no further updates since last time.

Youth Services Subdivision  - Carrie Falk from Shenandoah is the new YSS chair for 2006. Carrie shared information from the YSS Goal Setting Session that was help in January.  A big interest to current members is how to grow the membership of YSS. She encouraged the youth services librarians present to participate in the ILA Leadership Institute that YSS is helping to sponsor. Carrie also talked briefly about the sessions at ILA that YSS would be sponsoring in Council Bluffs in October, 2006.  YSS has requested to have a pre-conference about biblio-therapy.  In addition, breakout sessions we have requested are about serving reluctant readers, a panel of after school programming, the high school to higher ed issue, good websites for kids, are just a few of interest to youth services librarians.  Katie Dreyer, who attended the goal setting and is vice-chair of the group encouraged members to attend ILA and join YSS.

Mary shared information with the group about the partnering the State Library has been doing with IPTV.   The Graphic Novel sessions had 487 attendees at 167 sites and EBSCO for Kids there were  498 attendees with 199 sites.  Because IPTV paid for the ICN sites, we were able to have so many sites. This has been a great opportunity.  Other topics we are looking at for sessions are Reference for Kids and Readers’ Advisory for Kids. Mary asked the group for other suggestions.  She said that she would like topics that would be of interest to teacher-librarians also.  Suggestions included No Child Left Behind, Accelerated Reader, school/public library cooperation, working with other cultures were some of the topics discussed..

Go around:

Katie – story time, summer reading program

Jerri – ground breaking for teen space, story times

Loretta – summer reading

Carol – just finished a program for kids on penguins and weeding junior nonfiction

Maria –ICN Book Talks, and summer reading

Kim – all programs start this week, story time

Pat – a zoo, new fax projection TV has been purchased and crafts on the 14^th

Linda – her teen advisory board has gone great and she had to cut off membership at 20, am trying out a book discussion during the day for home school children

Deb –urged members to pay attention to the legislation being done in Des Moines on filtering/censuring/money for LSAs, Lobby from Home Day is February 22, Legislative Day is March 8, 5:00 p.m. in Law Library

Linda & Elaine – summer reading workshops

Brenda – pre school program and summer reading

Eileen – having a pajama party for kids, adult book club

Missy –story hour, adult program “sweets for sweet tooth”

Cathy – three sessions of story times, bad news – they have a registered sex offender who frequents the library – just wants everyone to be aware they have a right to be there and we still need to look out for the kids

Joa – in January we had the Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe intergenerational program with 57 people attending and it was lots of fun

Terri – story hour, second adult winter program, weeding books

Mary –getting a new director, teen advisory board, story times, valentine after school special program

Carrie – children’s department getting new paint, a book discussion group tonight, looking into pod casts where the kids would audio tape themselves and they could link that to the website and hear each others book talks for discussion, adults doing cozy Saturday

Sue – summer school working together with the library

Barb – pre school hour, crafts with some boys learning knitting, adult coffee hour on Wednesdays, card club

Sally – A Dad in a Hat Comes back, Library Olympics, story time

Karen Day – busy with E-rate, getting ready for Summer Reading Workshops

Mary – thanks everyone I appreciate the time you give to the ICN sessions and sharing with the group and your feedback.  Thank you all very much.