September 27, 2006 Minutes

Youth Services Advisory Committee Minutes

September 27, 2006

 
Present:  Loretta Brickley, Mary Cameron, Karen Day, Katie Dreyer, Pat Engemann, Jerri Heid, Brenda Knox, Joa LaVille, Maria Levetzow, Nancy Pudemz, Beth Marie Quanbeck, Eileen Redinger,  Carol Rosenbaum, Cathy Shaw, Mary Siegner, Deb Tobias, Kathy Rogers,  Deb Tobias, Angie Martin-Schwarze, and Carmen Epstein.

Absent:  Kim Bell, Carrie Falk, Terri Tesch, Linda Armitage, Barb Sowers, and Missy Mayfield-Cook

The Youth Services Advisory Committee met via the ICN on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 11:30 am.   Mary Cameron made introductions at each ICN location.  She also announced that Sally Van Dorin has gone back to teaching and is no longer at the Indianola Public Library.  She welcomed Angie Martin-Schwarze, Youth Services Coordinator for the Des Moines Public Library.  Angie introduced herself to the group.

Minutes from the May 9, 2006 meeting were accepted as written.

Mary Cameron asked the group to consider conducting future meetings via telephone rather than the ICN due to costs.  The committee will be given a 1-800 number to call to connect to the conference. Protocol for how the phone conference will be conducted will be sent to the Committee prior to the November meeting.   Most agreed this would be a good idea. Beth Marie suggested that one face-to-face meeting or an ICN once a year be conducted so new members would be recognized.  Mary Cameron suggested that it is time for the group to meet face-to-face again and that this meeting should be more about policy and philosophy than the regular meetings.  

2007 Reading Program Update:  The Get a Clue @ Your Library and YNK @ your library manuals are done.  Susan Mast, Jane McGrane and Eileen Redinger all contributed to the Get a Clue manual.  Maria once again authored the teen manual. Karen Day showed samples of the manuals and fliers wearing the costume that she will wear at ILA.  She explained that this year both manuals (different colors) will be in one packet and dividers will be inserted between chapters.  Incentive order forms will be 16 pages this year.  December 1 will be the first cut off date to order and those should be back to librarians by March 1. 

The Collaborative has a Web site, www.cslpreads.org and the State Library had a link on its Web site.  Cathy and Katie met Monday to work on next years workshops and asked for suggestions from the Committee.  Karen Day also let the Committee know that the banner will be displayed at the ILA booth.  Joa asked if Karen would read the chapter headings. Karen read and showed them to the Committee.  The chapter information for both manuals is also on the State Library Web site.

Carmen Epstein and Mary will be meeting after the YSAC meeting about the teen workshops.  There is going to be a teen banner this year also and Mary mention that hopefully in the future teen t-shirts will be sent in the promotional package also.

Mary Cameron sent out a schedule for people to help at the ILA booth.

2008 Reading Program Update:  Mary Cameron reported that this is well underway.  Both the CSLP Children’s Manual and Teen Manual committees have asked for input on the manuals for 2008. Harry Bliss will be doing the artwork for the youth program.  Maria Levetzow asked the committee for suggestions for the Metamorphisis manual. She will also post  the request to the mail list to get more ideas. The teen artist has not been chosen yet.

Kids First Update:  There will be a pre-conference on Wednesday with Saroj Ghoting. Keynote Speakers are Steven Layne and RoseMary Honnald, authors are Nancy Carlson and Deb Caletti.  There will be 15 breakout sessions and Mary is looking for more topics to be discussed, so if you have ideas please e-mail her. It will be held at the Gateway Hotel in Ames.

YSS Update:   Sessions that YSS is sponsoring at ILA include one on working with reluctant readers, lapsits, information literacy and more. YSS is also hosting a pre-conference on bibliotherapy.

Meeting Dates: 

November 2, 2006

February 6, 2007

May to be determined.

 Go Around:

            Angie – Since the new library opening, they have expanded programs including a 10:00 a.m. every Saturday program.  She is focusing on tweens.  Mary Cameron commented on the good ads Mediacom did for Des Moines for the summer reading program. Des Moines has had many good children authors.

            Carmen – will be trying a poetry workshop for teens. She has distributed flyers and bookmarks to teachers in Indianola to help promote the workshop.  She is also going to try to have a Poetry Slam for teens and adults.

            Maria – John Green will be at Scott County October 18 and at Bettendorf October 19 if anyone would like to attend. 

            Jerri – A new director has been hired and he comes to them from Alaska.  November 11 they will have Derrick Anderson at their library.

            Katie – is working on PLM 1 and Summer Reading.

            Loretta – having evening story time and working on projects for Halloween.

            Carol – school children are coming for stories about vampires.  The summer reading program was very well attended this year.  The Saturday after Thanksgiving they are having Christmas at the library.

            Pat – doing movies twice a month, October 19^th is an Open House.

            Nancy – Story time and Movies, Saturday they are having a charity knit event where people can come and knit square or chemo hats. 

            Deb – ICN book talk scheduled for February 21.

            Brenda – Story hour has become mostly toddlers now that school had started.

            Eileen – Movie time, Parent-teacher meetings, Hoot & Holler event after school.

            Cathy – Gone to a new format for reading – each week they pick a new letter of the alphabet to use and make it more of a learning experience.

            Joa – Expanded their classes of 6^th graders from 6 to 14 this year, trying a bilingual story time, continuing the Spanish and Sign Language classes.

            Cathy – Has a musician coming to do a Christmas program.

            May Siegner –  Had a Ball @ the Library, getting their air conditioning fixed, after school specials once a week and story time.

            Beth Marie – Will be holding a training for librarians to do parent meetings

            Eileen – Campaigning to get parents to sign kids up with library cards.

            Mary Cameron – Received a grant from IMLS for Latino book clubs and is doing train the trainer session for librarian for parent training. 

Mary Cameron expressed her thanks to the Committee for all their hard work.  She appreciates all your ideas, opinions, time, and hard work are greatly appreciated.

Meeting adjourned.

Minutes Submitted by:

Carol Simmons