November 2, 2006 Minutes

Youth Services Advisory Committee Minutes

November 2, 2006

Present:  Linda Armitage, Kim Bell, Loretta Brickley, Mary Cameron, Katie Dreyer, Pat Engemann, Carmen Epstein, Jerri Heid, Angie Martin-Schwarze, Nancy Pudenz, Beth Marie Quanbeck, Eileen Redinger,  Kathy Rogers, Cathy Shaw, Mary Siegner, Barb Sowers, Terri Tesch, Deb Tobias.

Absent:  Karen Day, Carrie Falk, Brenda Knox, Joa LaVille, Maria Levetzow, Carol Rosenbaum.

The Youth Services Advisory Committee met via conference call on Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 11:30 am.   Mary Cameron conducted introductions as each person connected to the conference call.  She went over conference call etiquette/procedures.

Minutes from the September 27, 2006 meeting were accepted as written.

2007 Reading Program Update:  The manuals have been sent out.  Each packet came with a children’s manual, teen manual and two CD ROMS.  The two CDs are identical and one is intended for the children’s manual coordinator and the other for the teen manual coordinator.  Eventually, there will be a separate mailing to the teen coordinators.

There are many incentives this year.  Mary discussed the sliding scale that Highsmith offers for incentive orders.  The first deadline is December 1.  If you get your order in by December 1, you should receive your incentives by March 1, 2007.  Barb thought the artwork was excellent.  Eileen mentioned that she would like to see teen T-shirts at the ILA booth next year and Mary responded that CSLP is negotiating with Highsmith to make sure that is part of the promotional packet.  They did include a teen banner this year.

Mary Cameron asked if the ILA  booth should be done again next year; Katie, Nancy and Jerri all thought it is worth keeping.  Mary Cameron asked for costume ideas for next year, Beth Marie suggested safari with a bug catcher, Loretta suggested butterfly wings.  Mary asked the group to e-mail suggestions to her. Overall, the summer library booth at ILA seems to be very popular with attendees.  More summer library information was given out this year than ever before.

Mary said that SLP workshop fliers distributed had an error. The Paullina and Churdan dates were mixed up.  The correct dates are in the CE Catalog on the State Library’s Web site. Mary has sent out emails with the correction on IOWALIB and ys_talk.

Katie and Kathy have met several times to work on the presentation for the children’s workshop. They are trying to include family programs in all chapters.  Some suggestions from the YSAC group included:  talking to the extension office about a criminal investigation program they have available, more time for discussion of crafts, and using law enforcement people for programming.

YA Workshop - Carmen is working on the outline and is including a CSI and a lie detector component along with lots of crafts.  She also announced she is leaving Indianola and going to Urbandale to be the teen librarian.  Carmen is also working on bookmarks, calendars, etc. in Microsoft Word that can be e-mailed to everyone or put on the State Library Web site for librarians to use.  She asked if anyone had a key for text messaging and Angie will e-mail one to Mary Cameron.  Jerri suggested “Science Detectives:  How scientists solved six real-life mysteries” by the editors of YES Magazine,  a Junior Library Guild book for grades 3-5.  Katie suggested Clue on DVD.  Mary Cameron suggested they push for board games.  Katie said Algona had a board game night and it was very successful.

2008 Reading Program Update:  Mary Cameron told the group that if they have ideas for the 2008 reading program, to submit them to the author/editor of the manual.  Children’s manual ideas are due on December 15 and teen manual ideas are due December 30. 

Kids First Update: There are still openings for breakout sessions.  Mary asked that if you have ideas, or would be interested in doing a session, to e-mail her.  Keynote speakers are Steven Layne and RoseMary Honnald, and authors Nancy Carlson and Deb Caletti.  The conference is April 25-27, 2007 at the Gateway Hotel in Ames.

YSS Update:   Carrie is unable to attend today.  Chair-elect of YSS, Katie Dreyer, updated the group on the sessions that YSS sponsored at ILA in October and also shared with the group a possible session for ILA in October, 2007.  YSS plans on having a goal setting meeting again in January this year.

Meeting Dates:    Mary asked if the conference call was something that we should continue and several participants said yes.  So the next meeting will also be a conference call.

February 6, 2007

May date to be determined.

Go Around:

Deb Tobias – The ICN book talks will be February 21.  East Central hosted a pre-parent training workshop in Hiawatha and is planning on hosting the “train the trainer” session later. Deb also shared that the Lisbon Public Library checks out Halloween costumes.

Terri Tesch – Paullina is getting ready to celebrate the Library's 100^th anniversary in 2008.  There are going to be some activities scheduled in 2007 also.  If anyone has any ideas for Terri, send her an e-mail.

Barb Sowers – Story hour is going well.  The library has switched days and time to try to keep attendance up at story times.  Readlyn is also busy sending books to the school.

Mary Siegner – Denison is participating in the IMLS Latino grant.  The library also hosted magician Rick Eugene.

Cathy Shaw – Edgewood Library is doing some long-range planning.  Cathy really wants to provide a teen summer program and maybe other teen programming in 2007.

Kathy Rogers – The fall story time schedule is in full swing. The library is hosting Hans Mayer.  Kathy has been working a lot with teachers on joint projects.

Eileen Redinger – The library hosted a big Halloween party.  Eileen is planning many programs to celebrate Children’s Book Week. Eileen is also hosting a very successful Cook’n Book program.

Beth Marie Quanbeck – Central LSA is hosting a pre-parent training in December at Ankeny.  They are also going to offer a lapsit training by Jerri Heid in January.

Angie Martin-Schwarze – The Des Moines Public Library is completely revising their Web site and she would like to add blogs. The library has many Children’s Book Week activities planned and Angie has rented a Curious George costume for book week.

Jerri Heid – The APL Teen Advisory Group helped with Halloween programming.  The library is going to host an “Open Mic” (poetry/music) event on November 10.  Ames native, Derek Anderson will be at the library on November 11.

Carmen Epstein – Carmen has recently hosted a writers’ workshop that was very successful. Indianola is also having a Humanities Iowa program on Laura Ingles Wilder.  Carmen has started a sixth grade book club that is at middle school.

Pat Engemann – Pat hosted “Scary Stories” for Halloween and showed the “Monster House” movie.  Harlan has hosted other movie nights and Pat is planning a huge pirate party.

Katie Dreyer – Katie has lots of activities scheduled for Children’s Book Week.  She just finished taking PLM 1.  Algona is also working with many teachers at the school and Katie makes many visits to the schools.

Loretta Brickley – Anamosa had a very successful Halloween party.  Loretta is planning many activities to celebrate Children’s Book Week.

Kim Bell – Kim is participating in the IMLS Latino grant.  She started a lapsit program this fall.  Kim has started a very popular “Reader of the Week” article in the local paper using a digital camera.

Linda Armitage – Hiawatha received an “On the Bookshelf” grant and Linda is working  to promote the books received from ALA. Linda has been busy doing fall, winter, and spring reading programs.

Meeting adjourned. 

Minutes Submitted by:  Carol Simmons